Vehicles typically comprise headlights and tail lights. Headlights are white or yellow lights located in the front of the vehicle, designed to illuminate the upcoming road and to make the vehicle more able to be seen. Tail lights are always red and are located in the rear to quickly alert other drivers about the vehicle's direction of travel. In the image to the right, the top (white portion) of the tail light is the back-up lamp, which when lit, is used to point to that the vehicle's transmission has been placed in the reverse gear, warning anyone behind the vehicle that it is moving backwards, or about to do so.

In adding up to lighting for useful purposes, automobiles increasingly feature ornamental lighting. In the late 60s and early 70s, manufacturers would sometimes backlight their logos and or other translucent paneling. In the 90s, a popular trend was to modify vehicles with neon lighting, especially underneath the body of a car. In the 2000s, neon lighting is ever more yielding to digital vehicle lighting, in which bright Leeds are placed on the car and operated by a computer which can be customized and programmed to display a range of changing patterns and colors, a technology borrowed from Christmas lights.

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