#1 rule -- don't flash or dip anything unless you are ABSOLUTELY certain that there isn't some nut going to weave through the hole. Courtesy on the road is a wonderful thing -- signaling another driver that a move is safe when it is not is a discourtesy. If there's more than two lanes on your side of the road, you're taking on an even greater moral responsibility to check before signaling.
As far as high-beams, if it's light out and I can see a non-signaling driver check his mirror, or at night and he is signaling, I might give him one flash. As others have stated, multiple rapid flashes are interpreted by some as indicating a hazard or trouble but could be mistaken for an-all-clear. (I happen to run a CB, and will use that or the horn instead of lights to signal a hazard to another driver traveling the same direction -- flashing high-beams for a hazard I reserve for traffic coming in the other direction.)
Still, dipping lights is to be preferred to high beams, but only if the other drivers path is truly clear.
On a side note, there's all sorts of acknowledgments from the other driver. The old traditional way was to flash the clearance and ID lights. A lot of drivers now will give a couple of flashes of either their four-ways or the opposite turn signal.
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