Why should you never leave your headlights on when parked at night?
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A.
They will drain your vehicle's battery overnight.
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B.
They can blind the drivers of oncoming vehicles. Correct
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C.
They may attract wildlife toward the roadway.
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D.
They violate the state's low-visibility parking law.
The answer is "They can blind the drivers of oncoming vehicles."
The manual gives one reason for the rule: parked headlights can blind drivers coming toward you. The battery-drain answer comes from garage habit, where leaving lights on overnight kills the battery, but that is not the safety reason the manual gives.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. They will drain your vehicle's battery overnight.
True of any vehicle left with its lights on, but the manual's reason for this rule is the oncoming driver, not the battery. This answer keeps the consequence a parked car has for its owner and misses the one it has for traffic.
C. They may attract wildlife toward the roadway.
The manual attributes the ban to blinding drivers, not to wildlife hazards. This answer ties the ban to a separate night-driving warning about animals on the road.
D. They violate the state's low-visibility parking law.
The manual explains the rule with a safety consequence, not by pointing at a law. This answer adds a statute the manual never cites, reading the ban as legal rather than practical.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Night Driving," p.71..
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