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"dp-g2-k-broken-yellow", "dp-g2-k-mixed-double-yellow", "dp-g2-k-double-solid-yellow", "dp-g2-k-two-way-left-turn", "dp-g2-k-stop-line", "dp-g2-k-yield-line", "ot-dp-g2-solid-white-lane-line" ] }, { "id": "g2p3-pedestrian-signals-and-crossings", "title": "Pedestrian signals and crossings", "order": 2, "blurb": "Pedestrian signals, the countdown, the stages of a pedestrian hybrid beacon and what a crosswalk is.", "studyGuideAnchor": "pedestrian-signals-and-crossings", "itemIds": [ "dp-g2-f-walking-person-hand", "dp-g2-f-countdown-beacon", "dp-g2-f-crosswalk-stop-line", "dp-g2-q-hand-while-crossing", "dp-g2-q-countdown-companion", "dp-g2-tf-crosswalk-intersection-only", "dp-g2-cmp-crosswalk-stop-line", "dp-g2-proc-hybrid-beacon-stages" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-g2-o1", "statement": "Read a traffic signal or a pavement marking, including flashing signals, arrows and line patterns, and say what it tells a driver.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-g2-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { 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"dp-g3-q-space-cushion", "ot-dp-g3-enhanced-mirrors", "ot-dp-g3-count-next-step" ] }, { "id": "test-g3-o2", "objectiveId": "obj-g3-o2", "title": "Reaction, braking and stopping distance", "mcqIds": [ "dp-g3-q-reaction-time-speed", "dp-g3-q-doubling-speed", "dp-g3-q-wet-roadway", "ot-dp-g3-too-fast-conditions", "ot-dp-g3-braking-distance" ] } ] }, { "id": "g4-sharing-the-road", "title": "Sharing the Road", "order": 4, "studyGuidePath": "/packs/drivers-permit/guides/g4-sharing-the-road.md", "parts": [ { "id": "g4p1-pedestrians-bicyclists-and-motorcyclists", "title": "Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists", "order": 0, "blurb": "Watching for pedestrians, and why bicyclists and motorcyclists are easy to miss.", "studyGuideAnchor": "pedestrians-bicyclists-and-motorcyclists", "itemIds": [ "dp-g4-f-pedestrians-everywhere", "dp-g4-f-bicyclists-motorcyclists", "dp-g4-d-multiple-threat", "dp-g4-q-stopped-at-crosswalk", "dp-g4-q-bicyclist-speed", "dp-g4-tf-motorcycle-signal", "ot-dp-g4-motorcycle-lane-width" ] }, { "id": "g4p2-trucks-buses-work-zones-and-animals", "title": "Trucks, buses, work zones and animals", "order": 1, "blurb": "Truck and bus blind spots and turns, six work-zone calls, and when deer are most active.", "studyGuideAnchor": "trucks-buses-work-zones-and-animals", "itemIds": [ "dp-g4-f-truck-blind-spots", "dp-g4-f-work-zones-deer", "dp-g4-cmp-truck-blind-spot-side", "dp-g4-q-truck-right-turn", "dp-g4-q-work-zone-calls", "dp-g4-c-truck-driver-face", "dp-g4-tf-deer-active-times" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-g4-o1", "statement": "Describe how to share the road with pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, large trucks and buses, road crews and work zones, and animals.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-g4-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { "id": "d-g4-o1", "label": "Who needs what room", "itemIds": [ "dp-g4-q-stopped-at-crosswalk", "dp-g4-q-bicyclist-speed", "dp-g4-tf-motorcycle-signal", "dp-g4-q-truck-right-turn", "dp-g4-q-work-zone-calls", "dp-g4-tf-deer-active-times" ], "requiredCorrect": 6 } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-g4-o1", "objectiveId": "obj-g4-o1", "title": "Sharing the road with other road users", "mcqIds": [ "dp-g4-q-stopped-at-crosswalk", "dp-g4-q-bicyclist-speed", "dp-g4-q-truck-right-turn", "dp-g4-q-work-zone-calls", "ot-dp-g4-motorcycle-lane-width" ] } ] }, { "id": "g5-impairment-distraction", "title": "Alcohol, Drugs, Fatigue and Distraction: How They Impair Driving", "order": 5, "studyGuidePath": "/packs/drivers-permit/guides/g5-impairment-distraction.md", "parts": [ { "id": "g5p1-alcohol-and-other-drugs", "title": "Alcohol and other drugs", "order": 0, "blurb": "How alcohol and other drugs impair driving, and why a legal limit is a legal line, not a safe amount.", "studyGuideAnchor": "alcohol-and-other-drugs", "itemIds": [ "dp-g5-f-legal-line-not-safe-amount", "dp-g5-f-why-feeling-fine-not-enough", "dp-g5-f-other-drugs-impair-driving", "dp-g5-d-bac", "dp-g5-cmp-judging-own-impairment", "dp-g5-q-coffee-after-drinking", "dp-g5-q-marijuana-and-alcohol", "dp-g5-tf-not-slurring-still-impaired", "ot-dp-g5-impairment-below-limit" ] }, { "id": "g5p2-distraction-and-fatigue", "title": "Distraction and fatigue", "order": 1, "blurb": "The three types of distraction, why texting involves all three, and drowsy driving: crash times, micro sleep, coffee.", "studyGuideAnchor": "distraction-and-fatigue", "itemIds": [ "dp-g5-f-three-types-of-distraction", "dp-g5-f-coffee-energy-drinks-drowsy", "dp-g5-d-micro-sleep", "dp-g5-p-cognitive-distraction", "dp-g5-q-texting-three-types", "dp-g5-q-energy-drink-alone" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-g5-o1", "statement": "Explain how alcohol, other drugs (drugged driving and mixing drugs), fatigue and distraction impair driving, and why a legal limit is not a safe amount.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-g5-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { "id": "d-g5-o1", "label": "What is wrong with this driver", "itemIds": [ "dp-g5-q-coffee-after-drinking", "dp-g5-tf-not-slurring-still-impaired", "dp-g5-cmp-judging-own-impairment", "dp-g5-q-marijuana-and-alcohol", "dp-g5-q-texting-three-types", "dp-g5-q-energy-drink-alone" ], "requiredCorrect": 6 } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-g5-o1", "objectiveId": "obj-g5-o1", "title": "Impairment, drowsiness and distraction", "mcqIds": [ "dp-g5-q-coffee-after-drinking", "dp-g5-q-marijuana-and-alcohol", "dp-g5-q-texting-three-types", "dp-g5-q-energy-drink-alone", "ot-dp-g5-impairment-below-limit" ] } ] }, { "id": "g6-night-weather-emergencies", "title": "Night, Bad Weather and Vehicle Emergencies", "order": 6, "studyGuidePath": "/packs/drivers-permit/guides/g6-night-weather-emergencies.md", "parts": [ { "id": "g6p1-night-fog-rain-and-ice", "title": "Night, fog, rain and ice", "order": 0, "blurb": "Why night driving gives less time to respond, how to handle glare, low beams in fog, and the slick-road facts.", "studyGuideAnchor": "night-fog-rain-and-ice", "itemIds": [ "dp-g6-f-night-driving-and-glare", "dp-g6-f-headlights-and-fog", "dp-g6-f-slick-roads", "dp-g6-q-glare-where-to-look", "dp-g6-tf-stop-within-lit-distance", "dp-g6-cmp-high-beams-vs-low-beams", "dp-g6-q-fog-speed-and-cruise-control", "dp-g6-tf-four-wheel-drive-in-snow" ] }, { "id": "g6p2-skids-and-vehicle-emergencies", "title": "Skids and vehicle emergencies", "order": 1, "blurb": "Hydroplaning against skidding, then a skid, a tire blowout, brake failure and a stall on railroad tracks.", "studyGuideAnchor": "skids-and-vehicle-emergencies", "itemIds": [ "dp-g6-f-hydroplaning-and-skids", "dp-g6-f-brake-failure-and-stalls-on-tracks", "dp-g6-q-hydroplaning-surface", "dp-g6-q-hydroplaning-response", "dp-g6-q-skid-recovery-start", "dp-g6-proc-tire-blowout", "dp-g6-q-brake-failure-parking-brake", "dp-g6-q-stalled-on-tracks-first" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-g6-o1", "statement": "Describe the correct response to night glare, fog, rain, a skid, a blowout, brake failure and a stall on 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"dp-ca1-cmp-bus-or-ordinary-driver", "dp-ca1-c-scene-viewing-misdemeanor", "dp-ca1-q-emergency-follow-distance", "dp-ca1-q-barred-at-crossing" ] } ], "filterTags": { "state": [ "CA" ] }, "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-ca1-o1", "statement": "In California, decide who must yield or stop at intersections, signals, crosswalks and railroad crossings, when turning or entering, and for emergency vehicles", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-ca1-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { "id": "d-ca1-o1", "label": "Who goes first", "itemIds": [ "dp-ca1-q-all-way-same-moment", "dp-ca1-cmp-stop-sign-or-yield", "dp-ca1-q-signals-out", "dp-ca1-q-green-turn-yield", "dp-ca1-proc-emergency-vehicle-path", "dp-ca1-q-barred-at-crossing" ], "requiredCorrect": 6 } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-ca1-o1", "objectiveId": "obj-ca1-o1", "title": "California right of way: who yields or stops", "mcqIds": [ "dp-ca1-q-all-way-same-moment", "dp-ca1-q-signals-out", "dp-ca1-q-unmarked-crosswalk", 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"Signals, turns and turns on red", "order": 0, "blurb": "Texas rules for signaling, the 100-foot turn signal, hand signals and turns on a steady red.", "studyGuideAnchor": "signals-turns-and-turns-on-red", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx3-f-when-to-signal", "dp-tx3-f-hand-signals", "dp-tx3-f-turn-on-red", "dp-tx3-p-left-turn-hand-signal", "dp-tx3-cmp-turn-or-stop-signal", "dp-tx3-q-stop-signal-first", "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-on-red", "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-hand-signal", "dp-tx3-c-bicycle-right-turn-signal", "dp-tx3-tf-left-turn-on-red" ] }, { "id": "tx3p2-lanes-and-passing", "title": "Lanes and passing", "order": 1, "blurb": "Texas rules for where turns start, keeping right, passing on the left and no-passing zones.", "studyGuideAnchor": "lanes-and-passing", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx3-f-turn-position-right-half", "dp-tx3-f-passing-rules", "dp-tx3-q-no-passing-zone-turn", "dp-tx3-q-accelerate-when-passed", "dp-tx3-c-slower-traffic-exception", "dp-tx3-tf-three-marked-lanes" ] }, { "id": "tx3p3-parking-lights-and-distances", "title": "Parking, lights and distances in feet", "order": 2, "blurb": "Texas parking bans in three tiers, the parking and headlight distances in feet, and the 18-inch curb rule.", "studyGuideAnchor": "parking-lights-and-distances-in-feet", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx3-f-parking-ban-tiers", "dp-tx3-f-parking-distances", "dp-tx3-f-lights-and-beams", "dp-tx3-q-brief-passenger-stop", "dp-tx3-n-hydrant-distance", "dp-tx3-n-crosswalk-distance", "dp-tx3-n-signal-approach-distance", "dp-tx3-n-railroad-crossing-distance", "dp-tx3-n-upper-beam-distance", "dp-tx3-n-lower-beam-distance" ] } ], "filterTags": { "state": [ "TX" ] }, "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-tx3-o1", "statement": "In Texas, choose the legal signal, turn, lane, passing or parking action in a described situation, and state the parking and lighting distances.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-tx3-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { "id": "d-tx3-o1", "label": "What the law allows", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx3-q-stop-signal-first", "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-on-red", "dp-tx3-q-no-passing-zone-turn", "dp-tx3-q-brief-passenger-stop", "dp-tx3-n-hydrant-distance", "dp-tx3-n-lower-beam-distance" ], "requiredCorrect": 6 } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-tx3-o1", "objectiveId": "obj-tx3-o1", "title": "Texas signals, turns, lanes, passing and parking", "mcqIds": [ "dp-tx3-q-stop-signal-first", "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-on-red", "dp-tx3-q-no-passing-zone-turn", "dp-tx3-q-accelerate-when-passed", "dp-tx3-q-brief-passenger-stop" ] } ] }, { "id": "tx4-phones-restraints-road-users", "title": "Texas: Phones, Restraints and Road-User Laws", "order": 16, "studyGuidePath": "/packs/drivers-permit/guides/tx4-phones-restraints-road-users.md", "parts": [ { "id": "tx4p1-phones-belts-and-child-restraints", "title": "Phones, seat belts and child restraints", "order": 0, "blurb": "Texas phone bans for drivers under 18 and for all drivers, the texting defenses, child seats and seat belts.", "studyGuideAnchor": "phones-seat-belts-and-child-restraints", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx4-f-under-18-wireless-ban", "dp-tx4-f-texting-offense-defenses", "dp-tx4-f-child-seat-and-seat-belt", "dp-tx4-q-texting-defense", "dp-tx4-q-when-stopped", "dp-tx4-q-child-seat-age", "dp-tx4-cmp-under-18-vs-all-drivers", "dp-tx4-tf-emergency-message-defense", "dp-tx4-c-driver-responsible-child" ] }, { "id": "tx4p2-school-buses", "title": "School buses", "order": 1, "blurb": "When a Texas driver must stop for a school bus, the two exceptions, the left turn lane, the wait and the red lights.", "studyGuideAnchor": "school-buses", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx4-f-school-bus-stop-rule", "dp-tx4-f-school-bus-exceptions", "dp-tx4-q-school-bus-wait", "dp-tx4-q-school-bus-left-turn-lane", "dp-tx4-cmp-school-bus-same-or-different-roadway", "dp-tx4-c-loading-zone" ] }, { "id": "tx4p3-move-over-bicycles-and-motorcycles", "title": "Move-over, bicycles and motorcycles", "order": 2, "blurb": "Texas move-over speeds, bicycle rights and riding rules, and the motorcycle ban on lane splitting.", "studyGuideAnchor": "move-over-bicycles-and-motorcycles", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx4-f-move-over-rule", "dp-tx4-f-bicycle-and-motorcycle-rules", "dp-tx4-q-move-over-tow-truck", "dp-tx4-q-move-over-speed-25-or-more", "dp-tx4-q-two-abreast", "dp-tx4-c-move-over-five-mph", "dp-tx4-tf-lane-splitting-ban" ] } ], "filterTags": { "state": [ "TX" ] }, "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-tx4-o1", "statement": "In Texas, state the rules on phones, seat belts and child restraints, and on school buses, move-over zones, bicycles and motorcycles.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-tx4-o1" ] } ], "demonstrations": [ { "id": "d-tx4-o1", "label": "What Texas requires", "itemIds": [ "dp-tx4-tf-emergency-message-defense", "dp-tx4-q-child-seat-age", "dp-tx4-q-school-bus-left-turn-lane", "dp-tx4-q-move-over-tow-truck", "dp-tx4-q-two-abreast", "dp-tx4-tf-lane-splitting-ban" ], "requiredCorrect": 6 } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-tx4-o1", "objectiveId": "obj-tx4-o1", "title": 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"ot-dp-tx6-provisional-minimum-age" ] }, { "id": "test-tx6-o2", "objectiveId": "obj-tx6-o2", "title": "Texas knowledge test: subjects, pass mark, languages", "mcqIds": [ "dp-tx6-q-exam-subject", "dp-tx6-q-pass-mark", "dp-tx6-q-three-tries", "ot-dp-tx6-vietnamese-request", "ot-dp-tx6-spanish-exam-parts" ] } ] } ], "items": [ { "id": "dp-g1-f-reserved-shapes", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "regulatory-signs", "warning-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Shapes Reserved for Specific Signs", "body": "The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) reserves the particular shapes in its Table 2A-1 for specific signs or series of signs, making them **exclusive sign shapes**. The octagon is reserved for the STOP (R1-1) sign, and only the YIELD (R1-2) sign uses the downward-pointing equilateral triangle. The circle is exclusive to the Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign, the crossbuck only to the Grade Crossing (R15-1) sign. The pennant is the shape of the NO PASSING ZONE (W14-3) sign, and the upward-pointing pentagon is the shape of School (S1-1) and County Route (M1-6).", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Straight-on photograph of a standard octagonal STOP (R1-1) regulatory sign mounted on a post", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R1-1 stop sign", "alt": "An octagonal STOP (R1-1) sign", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Federal Highway Administration ยท Public domain", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_R1-1.svg", "subject": "A flat vector drawing of a red octagonal STOP sign with a thin white border and white STOP lettering, on a plain white background.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g1-f-reserved-shapes.badbd405.webp" }, "uid": "1acnksctcx9y2" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-diamond-rectangle", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "warning-signs", "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Diamonds and Rectangles Are Not Exclusive", "body": "The **diamond**, a square with one diagonal vertical, is the standard shape of warning signs unless a sign is designated otherwise, and it is not an exclusive shape. The circle, the pennant and the school pentagon are warning shapes too, so a warning sign is not always a diamond. The rectangle, square included, is not an exclusive shape either: it appears in the regulatory, guide and warning series, and regulatory signs are rectangular unless specifically designated otherwise.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat whiteboard-style diagram of blank road-sign shapes: a yellow diamond, then a yellow circle, a pennant and a school pentagon as the other warning shapes, then three rectangles (white regulatory, green guide, yellow warning). Short labels, no sign legends, no numbers.", "imageSearchTerm": "sign shapes diamond rectangle pennant pentagon circle diagram", "alt": "Blank sign shapes: a yellow diamond, circle, pennant and school pentagon as warning shapes, then white, green and yellow rectangles.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g1-f-diamond-rectangle.0afad539.svg" }, "uid": "svwvum1n2e9jy" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-octagon", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Octagon", "clues": [ "Reserved for the sign used where a full stop is always required on an approach to an intersection", "The sign it is reserved for is the STOP (R1-1) sign" ], "uid": "lm4xg11c8agyx" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-down-triangle", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Downward triangle", "clues": [ "Reserved for the sign that tells road users to give the right-of-way to other traffic", "Its sign calls for slowing to a reasonable speed, or stopping only when necessary, to avoid interfering with conflicting traffic" ], "uid": "6p3r7a1fcbmag" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-circle", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "railroad-crossings", "warning-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Circle", "clues": [ "Reserved for the sign required on each highway in advance of every grade crossing, with listed exceptions", "Its sign keeps a yellow background in a work zone, where other warning signs normally use orange" ], "uid": "1t92a5xpmh0ip" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-pennant", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "warning-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Pennant", "clues": [ "Reserved for the sign that marks where a no-passing zone begins", "Its sign is installed on the left-hand side of the roadway", "An isosceles triangle with its longer axis horizontal, pointing to the right" ], "uid": "5c6gvi1dsl55e" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-pentagon", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "school-zones" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Pentagon", "clues": [ "Used for a sign with four applications: school area, school zone, school advance crossing and school crossing", "It is also the shape of the county route marker, which shows a yellow county name, route number and border on a blue background" ], "uid": "6k832gmkmfxu" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-crossbuck", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Crossbuck", "clues": [ "Belongs only to the sign at the railroad crossing itself", "Two rectangles crossed in an X" ], "uid": "1xlncf41okmedo" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-sign-color-meanings", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "sign-colors" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "What Each Sign Color Marks", "body": "In the MUTCD's **color code**, red is assigned to stopping and to prohibitions, and yellow carries the general meaning of warning. Green carries the general meaning of permitted movements and direction guidance, while blue marks guidance on road-user services, tourist information and evacuation routes. Orange is the general color for temporary traffic control, and brown marks guidance to recreational and cultural interest areas. Fluorescent yellow-green carries the general meaning of pedestrian, bicycle, playground, school bus and school warning.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of seven road-sign colors as sign-shaped swatches (red, yellow, green, blue, orange, brown, fluorescent yellow-green), each beside a short label of what that color marks. No legends or symbols inside the swatches.", "imageSearchTerm": "road sign colors meaning red yellow green blue orange brown diagram", "alt": "Seven sign-colored panels (red, yellow, green, blue, orange, brown, fluorescent yellow-green), each beside the meaning the MUTCD color code gives it.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g1-f-sign-color-meanings.10bc925b.svg" }, "uid": "mi0ii8cotto4" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-sign-color-schemes", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "warning-signs", "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Color Schemes on Whole Signs", "body": "On an ordinary warning sign, the legend (the words and symbols) and border are black and the background is yellow. In a work zone, warning signs are normally diamonds with a black legend and border on orange, except the Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign, which stays yellow. The two kinds differ in background color: permanent warning signs normally use yellow, while **work-zone warning signs** normally use orange. Unless the MUTCD provides otherwise, a guide sign has a white message and white border on a green background.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of an orange diamond-shaped ROAD WORK (W20-1) warning sign beside a road work zone", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD W20-1 road work sign", "alt": "An orange diamond ROAD WORK AHEAD warning sign, with a small amber light beside it, at the roadside.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Tyler Hardie ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/orange-road-work-ahead-sign-on-a-street-4uWMT51QI9o", "subject": "An orange diamond sign reading ROAD WORK AHEAD in black capitals on a portable stand at the edge of a street, a small amber light at its upper left and a low brick wall with shrubs behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g1-f-sign-color-schemes.f3da0bf2.webp" }, "uid": "1byy7tzjuvr23" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-red", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Red", "clues": [ "The MUTCD assigns it to stopping and to prohibitions", "The ALL-WAY plaque, which is used with STOP signs, has a white legend and border on this background" ], "uid": "eri4au1iuop8g" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-yellow", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "warning-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Yellow", "clues": [ "The MUTCD gives it the general meaning of warning", "On an ordinary warning sign, the legend and border are black and the background is this color", "The Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign keeps this background in a work zone" ], "uid": "igtb2vhttuh7" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-green", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "guide-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Green", "clues": [ "Its general meaning is permitted movements and direction guidance", "Unless the MUTCD provides otherwise, a guide sign has a white message and white border on this background" ], "uid": "herrpu1vaj75e" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-blue", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "guide-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Blue", "clues": [ "Its general meaning is guidance on road-user services, tourist information and evacuation routes", "General Service signs are white on this background", "The Emergency Notification System sign at a railroad crossing is also white on this background" ], "uid": "mivx1t5x1ux9" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-orange", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Orange", "clues": [ "Its general meaning is temporary traffic control", "In a work zone, warning signs are normally diamonds with a black legend and border on this background", "Added work-zone guide signs are black on this background" ], "uid": "9l129x12ib9ob" }, { "id": "dp-g1-k-brown", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "guide-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Brown", "clues": [ "Its general meaning is guidance to recreational and cultural interest areas", "Symbol signs for these areas are white on this background" ], "uid": "18pg0bcni2f5c" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-sign-categories", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs", "warning-signs", "guide-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Regulatory, Warning and Guide Signs", "body": "**Regulatory signs** notify road users of traffic laws or regulations, while warning signs alert road users to a situation that might not be readily apparent. Guide signs tell road users about routes and destinations, directions and distances, services, points of interest, and other geographical, recreational or cultural information. Regulatory signs are normally rectangular, while warning signs are normally diamond-shaped with a black legend and border on yellow. Black and white are the colors for regulation.", "uid": "1u88aveq6sen2" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-stop-yield-all-way", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs", "all-way-stops" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "STOP, YIELD and the ALL-WAY Plaque", "body": "A **STOP (R1-1) sign** is the MUTCD's sign for an intersection approach where a full stop is always required. A YIELD (R1-2) sign tells road users to give the right-of-way to other traffic, slowing to a reasonable speed or stopping only when necessary so they do not interfere with conflicting traffic. Giving the right-of-way means letting other traffic go first. Where every approach to an intersection has a STOP sign, an ALL-WAY (R1-3P) plaque goes below each of them.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Straight-on photograph of a standard STOP (R1-1) sign with an ALL-WAY (R1-3P) plaque mounted below it on the same post", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R1-1 stop sign R1-3P all-way plaque", "alt": "A red octagonal STOP sign on a post against green trees; no ALL-WAY plaque appears below it.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Will Porada ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/stop-signage-ZaGcU6BxJEc", "subject": "A red octagonal STOP sign with white border and white lettering on a dark pole, photographed against blurred green trees, with no plaque below it.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g1-f-stop-yield-all-way.b06d2f01.webp" }, "uid": "13oe8t4cnwgxo" }, { "id": "dp-g1-f-required-advance-signs", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs", "warning-signs", "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Required Signs and Advance Warnings", "body": "The MUTCD requires a **DO NOT ENTER (R5-1)** sign at listed locations, including where a two-way roadway becomes one-way. It also requires a Stop Ahead (W3-1), Yield Ahead (W3-2) or Signal Ahead (W3-3) sign when a primary traffic control device cannot be seen from far enough away for road users to respond. A Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign is required on each highway in advance of every grade crossing, with listed exceptions. A ROAD WORK (W20-1) sign gives a general warning that the road ahead has obstructions or restrictions.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Straight-on photograph of a standard DO NOT ENTER (R5-1) regulatory sign mounted on a post", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R5-1 do not enter sign", "alt": "A DO NOT ENTER (R5-1) sign", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Federal Highway Administration ยท Public domain", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_R5-1.svg", "subject": "A flat drawing of a red circular DO NOT ENTER sign with a white horizontal bar and white lettering above and below it, on a white square background.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g1-f-required-advance-signs.6586d269.webp" }, "uid": "6h2quv13mrjnp" }, { "id": "dp-g1-cmp-warning-look", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "warning-signs", "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": "Which description fits a warning sign rather than a regulatory sign?", "correct": { "caption": "Normally a diamond with a black legend and border on yellow" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Normally a rectangle with black and white as its colors" }, "explanation": "Warning signs are normally diamond-shaped with a black legend and border on yellow. Regulatory signs are normally rectangular, and black and white are the colors for regulation.", "uid": "12upw5n4akrjx" }, { "id": "dp-g1-p-all-way-plaque", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "ALL-WAY (R1-3P) plaque" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Goes below each STOP sign where every approach has one" }, "uid": "177ybas1emulfw" }, { "id": "dp-g1-q-yield-meaning", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which sign tells road users to give the right-of-way, stopping only when necessary?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "STOP (R1-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "YIELD (R1-2) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "WRONG WAY (R5-1a) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop Ahead (W3-1) sign" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A YIELD sign means giving the right-of-way and stopping only when necessary. A STOP sign is the one for which a full stop is always required, so it is not the answer.", "uid": "1m88kar1vrtljd" }, { "id": "dp-g1-q-do-not-enter-required", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "regulatory-signs" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which sign does the MUTCD require where a two-way roadway becomes one-way?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Yield Ahead (W3-2) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "NO TURN ON RED sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "WRONG WAY (R5-1a) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "DO NOT ENTER (R5-1) sign" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The MUTCD requires a DO NOT ENTER sign at listed locations, including where a two-way roadway becomes one-way. A WRONG WAY sign may be added to supplement a DO NOT ENTER sign, but it is an option rather than the required sign.", "uid": "f7ld7q1v32spw" }, { "id": "dp-g1-q-road-work-warning", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "warning-signs", "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which sign gives a general warning that the road ahead has obstructions or restrictions?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "ROAD WORK (W20-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Signal Ahead (W3-3) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "STOP (R1-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "NO TURN ON RED sign" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A ROAD WORK sign gives a general warning of obstructions or restrictions ahead. A Signal Ahead sign is different: it is required when a primary traffic control device cannot be seen from far enough away.", "uid": "bwdjnznjwcr3" }, { "id": "dp-g1-tf-warning-always-diamond", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "warning-signs", "sign-shapes" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "statement": "A warning sign is always diamond-shaped.", "isTrue": false, "why": "The diamond is the standard shape of warning signs unless a sign is designated otherwise. The circle, the pennant and the school pentagon are warning shapes too.", "uid": "125bxc4iq9t2u" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g1-crossbuck-sign", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sign-shapes", "railroad-crossings" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which sign has the crossbuck shape, two rectangles crossed in an X?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "STOP (R1-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Grade Crossing (R15-1) sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "NO PASSING ZONE (W14-3) sign" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The crossbuck belongs only to the Grade Crossing (R15-1) sign, at the railroad crossing itself. The W10-1 sign comes before a grade crossing and uses the circle instead.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "uid": "16zkoam1po27ba" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g1-work-zone-background", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sign-colors", "work-zones" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In a work zone, what background color do warning signs normally have?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Yellow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Orange" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Green" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Red" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "In a work zone, warning signs are normally diamonds with a black legend and border on orange, except the Grade Crossing Advance Warning (W10-1) sign, which stays yellow.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "uid": "1d1hkb7upvbgz" }, { "id": "dp-g2-f-steady-lights", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "intersections" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a vertical three-section traffic signal head on a mast arm at a street intersection, circular red, yellow and green sections visible, no vehicles or people in view", "imageSearchTerm": "traffic signal head red yellow green", "alt": "A vertical traffic signal head with circular red, yellow and green sections", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Eliobed Suarez ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/traffic-light-with-red-light-PN-YnI5stdQ", "subject": "A vertical three-section traffic signal head with a yellow-bordered black backplate on a mast arm against a clear blue sky; the red and amber lenses are dark, the green lens is lit, and a small white camera sits on the arm beside it.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g2-f-steady-lights.22b1406c.webp" }, "title": "Steady green, yellow and red", "body": "Traffic facing a **steady circular green** may go straight, turn right or left, or make a U-turn unless signs, markings or other devices modify the movement. A steady circular yellow warns traffic that the green movement is ending and that red will follow. A steady circular red requires traffic to stop, unless the driver is entering the intersection to make another movement permitted by another signal indication. In the usual order, a circular green is followed by a steady yellow and then by a circular red.", "uid": "1nc1ksfcmm7w7" }, { "id": "dp-g2-f-flashing-and-arrows", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "traffic-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Flashing lights and arrows", "body": "At a **flashing circular red**, traffic stops at the marked point and then proceeds as at a STOP sign, while at a flashing circular yellow it may enter the intersection cautiously, yielding as it would at a steady green. A green arrow permits cautious entry only for the movement it shows, yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk and vehicles lawfully in the intersection. A flashing yellow arrow permits the same, and a left turn under it must also yield to oncoming traffic close enough to be an immediate hazard. A flashing green indication has no meaning and is not allowed to be used.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of five U.S. traffic signal faces with one lit lens each: a flashing red ball, a flashing yellow ball, a green arrow, a flashing yellow arrow and a crossed-out flashing green, each with a short caption. 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a left turn also yields to close oncoming traffic" ], "uid": "1d62a66ikqy9c" }, { "id": "dp-g2-f-yellow-center-lines", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram drawn from the rule: three short segments of a two-lane, two-way road, each with a different yellow center-line pattern (one broken line; one broken line beside one solid line; two solid lines), plain colors, no vehicles, no text", "imageSearchTerm": "yellow center line patterns diagram", "alt": "Four yellow center-line patterns with passing labels: one broken, two solid, broken plus solid, and a left-turn lane with broken and solid lines.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g2-f-yellow-center-lines.c5c8796c.svg" }, "title": "Yellow center-line patterns", "body": "One normal broken yellow line down the center of a two-lane, two-way road permits passing with care in either direction, while two solid yellow center lines prohibit crossing to pass in either direction. A **double yellow center line** made of one broken and one solid line permits passing with care only for traffic next to the broken line. A two-way left-turn lane that is never operated as a reversible lane has a broken and a solid yellow line on each side, with the broken line on the side nearest the turn lane.", "uid": "w99h55581b7x" }, { "id": "dp-g2-f-lane-stop-yield-lines", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "lanes" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Lane lines, stop lines, yield lines", "body": "A normal-width broken white lane line is used where crossing with care is neither discouraged nor prohibited, except that a dotted white line separates a through lane from an adjacent acceleration or deceleration lane. A normal-width solid white lane line is used where crossing is discouraged. A **stop line** is a solid white line across the approach lanes that marks the point where a stop is intended or required. A yield line is a row of solid white triangles pointing toward approaching vehicles.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram on a dark gray road of white pavement markings: a broken lane line, a solid lane line and a dotted line beside a side lane, a stop line across two approach lanes, and a yield line of white triangles pointing at an approaching car. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "broken solid dotted white lane lines stop line yield line diagram", "alt": "White road markings: broken, dotted and solid lane lines, a stop line across two lanes, and a yield line of triangles aimed at a car.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g2-f-lane-stop-yield-lines.f73fa972.svg" }, "uid": "90ypfx1huwdzb" }, { "id": "dp-g2-k-broken-yellow", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "One broken yellow line", "clues": [ "Only one stripe runs down the center of a two-lane, two-way road", "Passing with care is permitted in either direction" ], "uid": "1yok5mu1diabg" }, { "id": "dp-g2-k-mixed-double-yellow", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Mixed double yellow", "clues": [ "Made of one broken line and one solid line", "Passing with care is permitted only for traffic next to the broken line" ], "uid": "1itk91h5as05b" }, { "id": "dp-g2-k-double-solid-yellow", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Double solid yellow", "clues": [ "Made of two lines, neither of them broken", "Crossing to pass is prohibited in either direction" ], "uid": "1xz2s91tao4pj" }, { "id": "dp-g2-k-two-way-left-turn", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "lanes" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "conceptKind": "thing", "name": "Two-way left-turn lane", "clues": [ "Set aside for traffic going either way", "Has a broken and a solid yellow line on each side, when it is never operated as a reversible one" ], "uid": "wvtwt21lcyfcs" }, { "id": "dp-g2-k-stop-line", "shape": "concept", "tags": [ "pavement-markings" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a pedestrian signal head showing a steady orange UPRAISED HAND symbol, mounted beside a marked crosswalk, no people in view", "imageSearchTerm": "pedestrian signal upraised hand orange", "alt": "A pedestrian signal head showing a lit white walking person beside an unlit upraised hand, in a yellow housing.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Pexels ยท Elizabeth Iris ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-close-up-shot-of-a-pedestrian-sign-7730415/", "subject": "A close-up of a yellow-housed pedestrian signal head against a cloudy sky and tall buildings, with a lit white walking person made of dots on the right and a pale grey unlit upraised hand on the left.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g2-f-walking-person-hand.eeba132a.webp" }, "title": "Walking person and upraised hand", "body": "At a steady **WALKING PERSON** signal, which shows the figure in white, pedestrians may start across, while a flashing WALKING PERSON pedestrian signal has no meaning and may not be used. A steady UPRAISED HAND pedestrian signal, shown in Portland orange, means do not enter. Under the MUTCD, at a flashing UPRAISED HAND pedestrians must not start to cross, but anyone already crossing continues. A state's own law can differ on when a pedestrian may start to cross.", "uid": "bhqnoi10l8y5a" }, { "id": "dp-g2-f-countdown-beacon", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "title": "Pedestrian countdown and hybrid beacon", "body": "A **pedestrian countdown** shows the seconds left in the pedestrian change interval. It is displayed only during the flashing UPRAISED HAND, and not every flashing hand has one. After being dark between uses, a pedestrian hybrid beacon shows flashing yellow, then steady yellow, then steady red, then alternating flashing red. The dark state is the resting state between uses, so it is not one of these lit stages.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of a row of pedestrian hybrid beacon faces, each with two red lenses above one yellow lens, showing the sequence dark, flashing yellow, steady yellow, steady red, alternating flashing red, joined by arrows. 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Crosswalk markings show where pedestrians cross, while a stop line, a solid white line across the approach lanes, shows where traffic is to stop.", "uid": "shsvi51kmr1lt" }, { "id": "dp-g2-q-hand-while-crossing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A pedestrian is already partway across a street when the signal begins to flash an UPRAISED HAND. What does that pedestrian do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stops where standing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Goes back to the curb" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Continues crossing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Waits for a WALKING PERSON" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Under the MUTCD, at a flashing UPRAISED HAND pedestrians must not start to cross, but anyone already crossing continues. Stopping where standing is the tempting mistake: the flashing hand rules out starting, not finishing.", "uid": "rrxbr8djr892" }, { "id": "dp-g2-q-countdown-companion", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pedestrian signal indication is displayed at the same time as a pedestrian countdown?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A steady UPRAISED HAND" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A flashing UPRAISED HAND" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A steady WALKING PERSON" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A flashing WALKING PERSON" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A pedestrian countdown is displayed only during the flashing UPRAISED HAND, although not every flashing hand has a countdown. The steady UPRAISED HAND is a different indication: it means do not enter.", "uid": "hxqs6bkmj98v" }, { "id": "dp-g2-tf-crosswalk-intersection-only", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "statement": "A crosswalk can be found only at an intersection.", "isTrue": false, "why": "A crosswalk includes any part of a roadway, at an intersection or elsewhere, that pavement marking lines clearly indicate as a pedestrian crossing.", "uid": "1oiti5r26ex43" }, { "id": "dp-g2-cmp-crosswalk-stop-line", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pavement-markings" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "prompt": "Which describes what crosswalk markings show, rather than what a stop line shows?", "correct": { "caption": "Where pedestrians cross, shown by lines that clearly indicate a pedestrian crossing" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Where traffic is to stop, shown by a solid white line across the approach lanes" }, "explanation": "Crosswalk markings show where pedestrians cross. A stop line is a solid white line across the approach lanes that shows the point where traffic is to stop.", "uid": "ncpm21q7d6bq" }, { "id": "dp-g2-proc-hybrid-beacon-stages", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "goal": "The lit stages a pedestrian hybrid beacon shows, in order, after it has been dark between uses", "steps": [ "Flashing yellow", "Steady yellow", "Steady red", "Alternating flashing red" ], "uid": "16q2jes1u53g22" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g2-flashing-green-meaning", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "traffic-signals" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which signal indication has no meaning and is not allowed to be used?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Flashing green" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Flashing red" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Flashing yellow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Steady yellow" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A flashing green indication has no meaning and is not allowed to be used. A flashing red, a flashing yellow and a steady yellow each carry a meaning.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "uid": "13ohvah1qhy9o9" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g2-green-arrow-permits", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "traffic-signals" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does a green arrow tell a driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "That a stop is required before proceeding" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That the green movement is ending and red will follow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That any movement through the intersection is permitted" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That the movement the arrow indicates is permitted" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "A green arrow permits the movement the arrow indicates. An arrow shows one direction only, so it does not open every movement. A steady yellow warns that red will follow, and a flashing red means stopping first.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "uid": "1jc6fr6f4v6fe" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g2-solid-white-lane-line", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "lanes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A normal-width solid white lane line is used under which condition?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Where a stop is intended or required" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Where crossing is discouraged" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Where pedestrians are to cross" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Where passing with care is permitted" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A normal-width solid white lane line is used where crossing is discouraged. Passing with care is permitted by a broken yellow center line, and a stop line marks where a stop is intended or required.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration โ€” Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition with Revision 1 incorporated", "url": "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Editionr1/mutcd11theditionr1hl.pdf" }, "uid": "1190ztrk6kin" }, { "id": "dp-g3-f-look-far-ahead", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "scanning" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2; NHTSA โ€” Countermeasures That Work, hazard perception training", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "title": "Looking Far Enough Ahead", "body": "All drivers look ahead, but many do not look far enough ahead. Looking far enough ahead means looking well down the road, not only at the vehicle directly ahead, because stopping or changing lanes can take a lot of distance. Safety researchers define **hazard perception** as a driver's ability to foresee situations that could lead to a crash.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a straight road: the driver's car, a car directly ahead, and a vehicle with brake lights far up the road; a short faded arrow to the near car and a long bold arrow past it to the far hazard. Short labels, no distances.", "imageSearchTerm": "look far ahead driving scanning diagram", "alt": "Top-down road: the driver's car, the car directly ahead, a short arrow to it and a long arrow past it: look well down the road.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g3-f-look-far-ahead.de44ee30.svg" }, "uid": "lnlts11yvjlxh" }, { "id": "dp-g3-f-mirrors-blind-spots", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "blind-spots", "mirrors" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Minimize Blind Spots handout (16608-050125-v4)", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-05/vehicle-blind-spots-handout-en-2025-16608-v4-tag.pdf" }, "title": "Mirrors Do Not Show Everything", "body": "A **blind spot** is an area alongside a vehicle that the driver cannot see. Mirrors help a driver see around the vehicle, but they do not allow a driver to see everything. Checking the blind spots means looking over the right and left shoulders out of the side windows, turning only the head, before moments such as changing lanes, merging with traffic or backing up. Enhanced mirror settings shrink the blind spots, but the federal handout still says to look over the shoulder before changing lanes.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Simple top-down diagram of a passenger car on a straight road with the areas alongside and just behind it that the side mirrors do not show shaded in a contrasting color, flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "car blind spot zones top-down diagram", "alt": "Top-down car in the middle lane with blind-spot wedges beside it, the mirror view behind, and arrows showing shoulder checks out the side windows.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g3-f-mirrors-blind-spots.9ba2b0da.svg" }, "uid": "7drzm41jhvb4s" }, { "id": "dp-g3-f-space-and-following", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "space-cushion", "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "title": "Space Around the Vehicle", "body": "A safe driver needs **space around the vehicle** on all sides, a space cushion, because when things go wrong that space gives time to think and to take action. Staying alongside another vehicle is risky: the other driver may change lanes suddenly and turn into the driver's vehicle, and the driver may be trapped when a lane change is needed. Tailgating means driving too close behind another vehicle. To check the following distance, a driver counts the seconds from when the vehicle ahead passes a landmark until reaching the same spot, then compares the count with the target number of seconds.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram on a two-lane road: a car inside a dashed space cushion with arrows on all four sides, beside two crossed-out cases: driving alongside another car, and tailgating a car ahead. Short labels, no distances.", "imageSearchTerm": "space cushion around vehicle diagram alongside tailgating", "alt": "Three panels: a car in a dashed space cushion on all sides, then crossed-out cases: driving alongside another car and tailgating.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g3-f-space-and-following.5f22d2b5.svg" }, "uid": "1dpk5k8uilylm" }, { "id": "dp-g3-proc-count-following", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "goal": "Counting a following distance to keep space ahead for a sudden stop; the target differs by source and vehicle, so the method gives no number", "steps": [ "The driver waits for the vehicle ahead to pass a landmark", "The driver counts seconds until reaching the same spot", "The driver compares the count with the target" ], "uid": "10mhxgpacfc81" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-look-ahead", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "scanning" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver watches only the vehicle directly ahead. Which describes looking far enough ahead?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Watching the vehicle directly ahead more closely", "short": "Watching the vehicle ahead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Looking at the road just in front of the vehicle", "short": "Looking just in front" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Looking well down the road and at the vehicle ahead", "short": "Looking well down the road" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Looking at the traffic alongside the vehicle", "short": "Looking at traffic alongside" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Looking far enough ahead means looking well down the road, not only at the vehicle directly ahead, because stopping or changing lanes can take a lot of distance. Watching that vehicle more closely does not extend the view.", "uid": "10t63c9fzj26" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-mirrors-blind-spot", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "blind-spots", "mirrors" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Minimize Blind Spots handout (16608-050125-v4)", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-05/vehicle-blind-spots-handout-en-2025-16608-v4-tag.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver checks both outside mirrors and sees no vehicle alongside. Which statement is true?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A vehicle can still be alongside in a blind spot", "short": "Can still be in a blind spot" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "No vehicle can be alongside since mirrors show everything", "short": "None since mirrors show all" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A vehicle can be alongside only if mirrors are not set", "short": "Only if mirrors are not set" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A vehicle can be missed only when it is far down the road", "short": "Only when far down the road" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A blind spot is an area alongside a vehicle that the driver cannot see. Mirrors help a driver see around the vehicle, but they do not allow a driver to see everything, so an empty mirror does not mean an empty blind spot.", "uid": "13pjyxe12pi4rc" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-space-cushion", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "space-cushion" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which gives a driver time to think and to take action when things go wrong?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Staying alongside another vehicle", "short": "Staying alongside" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Watching only the vehicle directly ahead", "short": "Watching only the vehicle ahead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Relying on the mirrors to show everything", "short": "Relying on the mirrors" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Keeping space all around the vehicle", "short": "Keeping space all around" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Keeping space around the vehicle on all sides gives that time. Staying alongside another vehicle is risky, because the other driver may change lanes suddenly and turn into the driver's vehicle.", "uid": "1gr6s2b1yy9olz" }, { "id": "dp-g3-f-stopping-distance-parts", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "title": "What Stopping Distance Includes", "body": "The Federal Highway Administration defines **stopping distance** as the sum of perception distance, reaction distance and braking distance. Reaction distance is the distance the vehicle continues to travel, in ideal conditions, before the driver applies the brakes in response to the hazard. Braking distance is the distance the vehicle travels, in ideal conditions, while the driver is braking, from the time the brakes are applied until it stops.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat horizontal diagram of a passenger car on a straight road with three consecutive colored segments ahead of it, labeled Perception, Reaction and Braking, showing that together they make up the stopping distance; clean flat vector style.", "imageSearchTerm": "stopping distance perception reaction braking diagram", "alt": "Car heading right with Perception, Reaction and Braking segments ahead of it that add up to stopping distance, ending where it stops.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g3-f-stopping-distance-parts.a9c144d8.svg" }, "uid": "cpaovbh49csx" }, { "id": "dp-g3-f-speed-and-conditions", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "stopping-distance", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "title": "Speed, Conditions and Stopping", "body": "Human reaction time stays the same at higher speeds, so a faster vehicle covers more ground while the driver perceives and reacts. Braking distance does not double when speed doubles: in the Federal Highway Administration's example, going from 20 to 40 mph makes it four times longer. Substantially more distance is needed to stop for a fatigued driver, a distracted driver, a driver on a down slope, and when stopping on a wet roadway. A driver can also be going **too fast for road conditions** even at the speed limit.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of two horizontal bars labeled braking distance, 20 mph one unit long and 40 mph four units long, with a bracket reading four times longer, not twice; two short note boxes about reaction time and about conditions that need more stopping distance.", "imageSearchTerm": "braking distance 20 mph 40 mph four times diagram", "alt": "Two bars to scale: braking distance at 20 mph is one length, at 40 mph four lengths, labeled four times longer, not double.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g3-f-speed-and-conditions.973ecf4e.svg" }, "uid": "1par1gf1o1zhm9" }, { "id": "dp-g3-cmp-reaction-braking", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": "Which describes reaction distance rather than braking distance?", "correct": { "caption": "Covered in ideal conditions before the driver applies the brakes" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Covered in ideal conditions while the driver brakes to a stop" }, "explanation": "Reaction distance is covered, in ideal conditions, before the driver applies the brakes in response to the hazard. Braking distance is covered while the driver is braking, from the time the brakes are applied until the vehicle stops.", "uid": "1xzvafwxwqb7o" }, { "id": "dp-g3-tf-stopping-only-braking", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "statement": "Stopping distance is only the distance a vehicle travels while the driver is braking.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Stopping distance is the sum of perception distance, reaction distance and braking distance. Braking distance is only the part covered while the driver is braking.", "uid": "18iw6z4yg3rnk" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-reaction-time-speed", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "stopping-distance", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Speed-Measuring Device Operator Training, CORE participant manual", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/core_participant_manual-smd-2018.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Human reaction time stays the same at higher speeds. What does a faster vehicle do while its driver perceives and reacts?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Covers less ground toward the hazard", "short": "Covers less ground" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Covers more ground toward the hazard", "short": "Covers more ground" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Covers the same ground as a slower vehicle", "short": "Covers the same ground" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stops sooner than a slower vehicle would", "short": "Stops sooner" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "During the time the driver perceives and reacts, the vehicle keeps moving at the same speed toward the hazard. Reaction time does not shorten at higher speeds, so a faster vehicle covers more ground in that time.", "uid": "xnbthju30vk7" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-doubling-speed", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In the Federal Highway Administration's example, a vehicle's speed doubles from 20 to 40 mph. What happens to its braking distance?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It becomes twice as long" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It stays the same length" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It becomes four times longer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It becomes three times longer" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Braking distance does not double when speed doubles. In the example, going from 20 to 40 mph makes it four times longer. That figure is for braking distance only, not the whole stopping distance.", "uid": "rzaxqv3sul6x" }, { "id": "dp-g3-q-wet-roadway", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "stopping-distance", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which case needs substantially more distance to stop?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver stopping on a wet roadway", "short": "Stopping on a wet roadway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver stopping on a dry roadway", "short": "Stopping on a dry roadway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver stopping while rested and alert", "short": "Stopping rested and alert" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver stopping on a level road", "short": "Stopping on a level road" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Substantially more distance is needed to stop for a fatigued driver, a distracted driver, a driver on a down slope, and when stopping on a wet roadway. A dry roadway, a level road and a rested, alert driver are not on that list.", "uid": "1ad56djhtuik9" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g3-enhanced-mirrors", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "mirrors", "blind-spots" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver's vehicle has enhanced mirror settings, which shrink the blind spots. What does the federal handout still say to do before changing lanes?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Using the mirrors alone" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Looking over the shoulder" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Waiting for blind spots to clear" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Using only the center mirror" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Enhanced mirror settings shrink the blind spots, but the handout still says to look over the shoulder before changing lanes. Mirrors alone do not allow a driver to see everything.", "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Minimize Blind Spots handout (16608-050125-v4)", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-05/vehicle-blind-spots-handout-en-2025-16608-v4-tag.pdf" }, "uid": "1ovs01xpc0045" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g3-count-next-step", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver checks a following distance by the counting method. The vehicle ahead has just passed a shadow on the road. What does the driver do next?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Compares the count with the target number of seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Waits for a second landmark before counting" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slows down until the vehicle ahead is out of sight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Counts seconds until the vehicle reaches the same spot" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "After the vehicle ahead passes the landmark, the driver counts seconds until the driver's vehicle reaches the same spot, and only then compares the count with the target. Each step needs the one before it.", "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "uid": "og6cf117fzce5" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g3-too-fast-conditions", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-and-conditions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which condition can make a driver too fast for the road even at the speed limit?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A road that is under repair" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A road that is in good repair" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "An area at night that is well lit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Dry and clear daytime weather" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "NHTSA's examples are bad weather, a road under repair and an area at night that is not well lit. A road in good repair, a well-lit area and dry, clear weather are the opposite cases.", "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Speeding and Aggressive Driving Prevention", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding" }, "uid": "xdf6a31r5czj1" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g3-braking-distance", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "stopping-distance" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which describes braking distance?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The distance covered before the brakes are applied" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The distance kept behind the vehicle ahead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The distance covered while the driver is braking" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The distance covered from seeing a hazard to a stop" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Braking distance is the distance the vehicle travels, in ideal conditions, while the driver is braking, from the time the brakes are applied until it stops. Distance covered before the brakes are applied belongs to the other parts of stopping distance.", "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "uid": "1weefbuu0mvp8" }, { "id": "dp-g4-f-pedestrians-everywhere", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pedestrians", "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Pedestrian Safety: Prevent Pedestrian Crashes", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/pedestrian-safety" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a marked crosswalk on a two-lane street: one car stopped before the crosswalk, a pedestrian crossing in front of it, and a second car approaching in the next lane whose view of the pedestrian is blocked by the stopped car. Simple shapes, no text, no vehicle numbers.", "imageSearchTerm": "pedestrian crosswalk stopped car blocked view diagram", "alt": "A car stopped at a crosswalk hides a crossing person from a second car in the next lane; passing it is crossed out.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g4-f-pedestrians-everywhere.773d91f9.svg" }, "title": "Watching for pedestrians everywhere", "body": "Drivers are advised to look out for pedestrians everywhere and to minimize blind spots. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also advises drivers never to **pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk**, because there may be people crossing where the driver cannot see.", "uid": "4lrfjvjti7hb" }, { "id": "dp-g4-f-bicyclists-motorcyclists", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "motorcycles", "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA โ€” CONSUMER ADVISORY: Safely 'Share the Road' with Motorcyclists", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/consumer-advisory-safely-share-road-motorcyclists" }, "title": "Smaller road users are easy to miss", "body": "Bicyclists and motorcyclists are **smaller and harder to see** than other road users, and drivers are advised not to underestimate a bicyclist's speed. NHTSA says the majority of multi-vehicle motorcycle crashes are generally caused when other drivers simply did not see the motorcyclist. A 7 May 2015 DOT and NHTSA advisory tells drivers to allow a motorcycle the full width of a lane at all times. A flashing motorcycle turn signal does not prove the rider is about to turn, because motorcycle signals often do not cancel on their own.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a two-lane same-direction road: a motorcycle with rider in one lane, the whole width of that lane tinted and labeled as the motorcycle's space, and a car in the next lane. Short labels, no distances.", "imageSearchTerm": "motorcycle full lane width diagram", "alt": "Top-down two-lane road: a motorcycle in one lane, the lane's full width tinted as its space, and a car in the next lane.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g4-f-bicyclists-motorcyclists.bafcae3e.svg" }, "uid": "7t5a178c5in7" }, { "id": "dp-g4-d-multiple-threat", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "pedestrians", "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Pedestrian Safety: Prevent Pedestrian Crashes", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/pedestrian-safety" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Multiple threat", "short": "Multiple threat" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "A crash type in which one car stops for a pedestrian in the crosswalk and a second car's driver cannot see the pedestrian past another vehicle.", "short": "A pedestrian hidden from a second driver" }, "uid": "cvncxc1vdq96k" }, { "id": "dp-g4-q-stopped-at-crosswalk", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Pedestrian Safety: Prevent Pedestrian Crashes", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/pedestrian-safety" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A car ahead has stopped at a crosswalk. Why are drivers advised never to pass it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The stopped car may suddenly back up", "short": "The stopped car may back up" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "People may be crossing out of the driver's view", "short": "People may cross out of view" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The stopped car may be about to change lanes", "short": "The stopped car may change lanes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The traffic signal ahead may be about to change", "short": "The signal ahead may change" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Drivers are advised never to pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk because there may be people crossing where the passing driver cannot see. A car backing up, changing lanes or a signal changing is not the reason given.", "uid": "cdzs5117fxkah" }, { "id": "dp-g4-q-bicyclist-speed", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Bicycle Safety: Bike Safety Tips for Kids and Adults", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/bicycle-safety" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver is judging how fast a bicyclist ahead is traveling. What are drivers advised to do about a bicyclist's speed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "To assume it is slower than cars" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Not to bother judging it at all" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To treat it as a runner's speed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Not to underestimate its speed" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Drivers are advised not to underestimate the speed of bicyclists. Assuming the speed is low, or not judging it at all, does not follow that advice.", "uid": "dppt6z1drbygd" }, { "id": "dp-g4-tf-motorcycle-signal", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "motorcycles" ], "source": { "label": "U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA โ€” CONSUMER ADVISORY: Safely 'Share the Road' with Motorcyclists", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/consumer-advisory-safely-share-road-motorcyclists" }, "statement": "A flashing motorcycle turn signal proves that the rider is about to turn.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Motorcycle signals often do not cancel on their own, so the rider may have forgotten to turn the signal off. A flashing signal does not prove a turn.", "uid": "rwo5x412yx3r8" }, { "id": "dp-g4-f-truck-blind-spots", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "large-trucks", "blind-spots" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration โ€” Tips for Passenger Vehicle Drivers (Our Roads, Our Safety)", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ourroads/tips-driving-safely-around-large-trucks-or-buses" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a large truck with a trailer. Translucent shaded zones beside the cab and trailer show a blind spot on the right side that is much larger than the blind spot on the left. Only the words RIGHT and LEFT as labels; no vehicle numbers.", "imageSearchTerm": "large truck blind spots right side larger diagram", "alt": "Top-down truck: small blind spot on its left, much larger one on its right; advice never to pass on the right.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g4-f-truck-blind-spots.ce0fe6fe.svg" }, "title": "Seeing and being seen by trucks", "body": "A large truck or bus has a **blind spot on the right** that is significantly larger than the one on the left, so the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) advises never passing it on the right. If a driver cannot see the truck or bus driver's face in that driver's mirror, the truck or bus driver cannot see the car. When turning right, large trucks and buses may first move to the left to get enough room to turn. In a crash behind a truck, a passenger vehicle could slide or be pushed under it, because trucks sit much higher off the ground.", "uid": "jdb7clei0y01" }, { "id": "dp-g4-f-work-zones-deer", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "work-zones", "animals" ], "source": { "label": "FHWA โ€” 2026 National Work Zone Awareness Week fact sheet (HOP-26-060)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/HOP-26-060_FHWA_NWZAW_Factsheet.pdf" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a highway work zone with orange warning signs, traffic cones and a worker in a high-visibility vest beside a closed lane, from a state transportation department or Wikimedia Commons archive. No readable vehicle numbers.", "imageSearchTerm": "highway work zone orange signs cones worker", "alt": "Road crew in safety vests shoveling and raking fresh asphalt on a road, with two orange cones and a roller behind them", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Pexels ยท Alejandro Perez ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/men-working-on-road-construction-4575148/", "subject": "Road workers in orange and lime-green safety vests shoveling and raking fresh black asphalt into a patch in a lane, with two orange cones at the edge, a yellow roller working behind them and a thin yellow line on the pavement.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g4-f-work-zones-deer.6f4ea994.webp" }, "title": "Staying alert in work zones and deer country", "body": "The 2026 work-zone fact sheet from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) gives drivers **six calls**: to pay attention, to keep their distance, to slow down, to watch for pedestrians, to allow extra space and to avoid distractions. A deer biologist quoted in the National Safety Council's November 2021 newsletter says deer are most active at dawn and dusk.", "uid": "l0yufs1yq3ie6" }, { "id": "dp-g4-cmp-truck-blind-spot-side", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "blind-spots", "large-trucks" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA โ€” Teen Zone: Driving Safely Near Large Trucks and Buses", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/TeenZone" }, "prompt": "Which describes the blind spots of a large truck or bus?", "correct": { "caption": "The blind spot on the right is significantly larger than on the left" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "The blind spot on the left is significantly larger than on the right" }, "explanation": "A large truck or bus has a blind spot on the right that is significantly larger than the one on the left, which is why drivers are advised never to pass a large truck or bus on the right.", "uid": "1tw1pggx686a6" }, { "id": "dp-g4-q-truck-right-turn", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "large-trucks", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration โ€” Tips for Passenger Vehicle Drivers (Our Roads, Our Safety)", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ourroads/tips-driving-safely-around-large-trucks-or-buses" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver sees a large truck about to turn right. What does FMCSA say the truck may do first?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Move left first to get turning room", "short": "Move left first for turning room" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Move right first to hug the curb" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speed up first to clear the corner", "short": "Speed up first to clear it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop short of the corner to wait" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "When turning right, large trucks and buses may first move to the left to get enough room to turn. Moving right toward the curb is the opposite of what is described.", "uid": "s0u23n13tizxz" }, { "id": "dp-g4-q-work-zone-calls", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "FHWA โ€” 2026 National Work Zone Awareness Week fact sheet (HOP-26-060)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/HOP-26-060_FHWA_NWZAW_Factsheet.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver is passing through a work zone. Which action is one of the six calls to drivers in FHWA's 2026 work-zone fact sheet?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "To clear the zone quickly" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To follow closely behind" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To allow extra space" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To change lanes often" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The six calls are to pay attention, keep distance, slow down, watch for pedestrians, allow extra space and avoid distractions. Clearing the zone quickly or following closely behind runs against them.", "uid": "6eu58s5xxssc" }, { "id": "dp-g4-c-truck-driver-face", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "large-trucks", "mirrors" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration โ€” Tips for Passenger Vehicle Drivers (Our Roads, Our Safety)", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ourroads/tips-driving-safely-around-large-trucks-or-buses" }, "template": "If a driver cannot see a truck or bus driver's ___ in that driver's mirror, the truck or bus driver cannot see the car.", "answer": "face", "distractors": [ "hands", "shoulders", "seat belt" ], "explanation": "If a driver cannot see a truck or bus driver's face in that driver's mirror, the truck or bus driver cannot see the car. The rule names the face, not the hands or the shoulders.", "uid": "17zhcugoachje" }, { "id": "dp-g4-tf-deer-active-times", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "animals" ], "source": { "label": "National Safety Council โ€” Avoid deer-vehicle collisions (Traffic Safety, Vol. 21, No. 11)", "url": "https://www.nsc.org/getmedia/48e7a578-b3a2-4db8-aed6-4c9fa07e0506/traffic-safety-1121.pdf" }, "statement": "A deer biologist quoted by the National Safety Council in November 2021 says deer are most active at dawn and dusk.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The biologist's statement, quoted in the National Safety Council's November 2021 newsletter, names dawn and dusk as the times when deer are most active.", "uid": "cyno5exmyl0o" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g4-motorcycle-lane-width", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "motorcycles" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver shares the road with a motorcycle. How much of a lane is the driver advised to allow it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Half the lane, as motorcycles are narrow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only the width the motorcycle takes up" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Whatever width the driver's vehicle leaves" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The full width of the lane, at all times" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "A 7 May 2015 advisory from the Department of Transportation and NHTSA tells drivers to allow a motorcycle the full width of a lane at all times, not half of it or only the width it takes up.", "source": { "label": "U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA โ€” CONSUMER ADVISORY: Safely 'Share the Road' with Motorcyclists", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/consumer-advisory-safely-share-road-motorcyclists" }, "uid": "1v2np8x1d5ee8l" }, { "id": "dp-g5-f-legal-line-not-safe-amount", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control โ€” Impaired Driving", "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/impaired-driving/about/index.html" }, "title": "A Legal Line, Not a Safe Amount", "body": "A legal blood alcohol limit is a **legal line**, not a safe amount. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that impairment starts at lower blood alcohol levels than the legal limit, so staying under the limit does not make it safe to drive. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says that no amount of drinking before driving is safe.", "uid": "2ddbu974blbp" }, { "id": "dp-g5-f-why-feeling-fine-not-enough", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism โ€” The Truth About Holiday Spirits", "url": "https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/truth-about-holiday-spirits" }, "title": "Why Feeling Fine Is Not Enough", "body": "Drivers find it very difficult to judge their own impairment, and failing to recognize alcohol impairment is often itself a symptom of impairment. One myth says a person can drive as long as he or she is not slurring words or acting erratically, but the coordination needed for driving is compromised long before signs of intoxication show, and reaction time is slowed. Coffee does not sober a driver up: caffeine may help with drowsiness, but not with alcohol's effects on decision-making or coordination. There is no quick cure for alcohol impairment; **only time helps**.", "uid": "1lg1hng14yvc8s" }, { "id": "dp-g5-f-other-drugs-impair-driving", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "drugs" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drug-Impaired Driving", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drug-impaired-driving" }, "title": "How Other Drugs Impair Driving", "body": "**Drugged driving** is driving a vehicle while impaired by the intoxicating effects of recent drug use. Alcohol, marijuana and other drugs can impair driving because they slow a driver's coordination, judgment and reaction times. Using two or more drugs at the same time, alcohol included, can amplify each drug's impairing effects. The rumor that marijuana cannot impair driving, or even makes a safer driver, is a misconception: several scientific studies indicate it is false.", "uid": "1fslcwq1nesqs" }, { "id": "dp-g5-d-bac", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drunk Driving", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "BAC" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "The weight of alcohol in a given volume of a person's blood", "short": "Weight of alcohol in a volume of blood" }, "uid": "19yrsoefiy03e" }, { "id": "dp-g5-cmp-judging-own-impairment", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drunk Driving", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving" }, "prompt": "Which statement about drivers judging their own alcohol impairment is correct?", "correct": { "caption": "It is very difficult, and failing to recognize it is often itself a symptom of impairment" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "It is easy, because drivers can tell for themselves when alcohol has impaired their driving" }, "explanation": "Drivers find it very difficult to judge their own impairment, and failing to recognize alcohol impairment is often itself a symptom of impairment. A driver can be impaired without realizing it, so judging by feel is not reliable.", "uid": "sbimtd1io642b" }, { "id": "dp-g5-q-coffee-after-drinking", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism โ€” The Truth About Holiday Spirits", "url": "https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/truth-about-holiday-spirits" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver who has been drinking alcohol has a cup of coffee. What might the caffeine help with?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Sobering the driver up enough to be fit to drive", "short": "Sobering the driver up" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Coordination, but not decision-making", "short": "Easing coordination only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Drowsiness, but not decision-making or coordination", "short": "Easing drowsiness only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Decision-making and coordination, but not drowsiness", "short": "Decision-making, not drowsiness" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Caffeine may help with drowsiness but not with alcohol's effects on decision-making or coordination. There is no quick cure for alcohol impairment, so coffee does not sober a driver up; only time helps.", "uid": "93r18i6gtt9c" }, { "id": "dp-g5-q-marijuana-and-alcohol", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "drugs", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drug-Impaired Driving", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drug-impaired-driving" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver has used marijuana and has also been drinking alcohol. Which statement about using both at the same time is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Each can amplify the impairing effects of the other", "short": "Each can amplify the other" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only the alcohol impairs driving; marijuana does not", "short": "Only the alcohol impairs driving" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The effects stay separate, so neither is stronger", "short": "The effects stay separate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Marijuana can offset the alcohol, making the driver safer", "short": "Marijuana can offset alcohol" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Using two or more drugs at the same time, alcohol included, can amplify each drug's impairing effects. Marijuana does not offset the alcohol: several scientific studies indicate that the rumor it makes a safer driver is false.", "uid": "hx82sb1nf8ls9" }, { "id": "dp-g5-tf-not-slurring-still-impaired", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism โ€” The Truth About Holiday Spirits", "url": "https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/truth-about-holiday-spirits" }, "statement": "After drinking alcohol, a driver who is not slurring words or acting erratically can still have impaired coordination.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The coordination needed for driving is compromised long before signs of intoxication show, and reaction time is slowed.", "uid": "15fbeo4olb0pc" }, { "id": "dp-g5-f-three-types-of-distraction", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "distraction" ], "source": { "label": "CDC โ€” Distracted Driving; FHWA โ€” Driver Safety Issues", "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/distracted-driving/about/index.html" }, "title": "Three Types of Distraction", "body": "**Distracted driving** is any activity that pulls a driver's attention away from driving. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention names three types: visual distraction is taking the eyes off the road, manual distraction is taking the hands off the wheel and cognitive distraction is taking the mind off driving. The Federal Highway Administration notes that texting and similar tasks involve all three types of distraction at the same time.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat three-circle Venn diagram: Visual (eye icon, eyes off the road), Manual (hand on steering wheel icon, hands off the wheel) and Cognitive (thought bubble icon, mind off driving), with texting in the center where all three overlap. Soft fills, short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "three types of distraction visual manual cognitive venn diagram", "alt": "Three overlapping circles: visual (eyes off the road), manual (hands off the wheel) and cognitive (mind off driving), with texting where all three overlap.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g5-f-three-types-of-distraction.652a826e.svg" }, "uid": "fj0wz36n64at" }, { "id": "dp-g5-f-coffee-energy-drinks-drowsy", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "drowsy-driving" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drowsy Driving: Avoid Falling Asleep Behind the Wheel", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drowsy-driving" }, "title": "Coffee, Energy Drinks and Drowsy Driving", "body": "Coffee or an energy drink alone is not always enough against **drowsy driving**. It might help a driver feel more alert, but the effects last only a short time, and the driver might not be as alert as he or she thinks. Drowsy-driving crashes occur most frequently between midnight and 6 a.m., or in the late afternoon.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "A cup of coffee sitting in a car's cup holder beside the driver's seat. No readable text, brands or logos.", "imageSearchTerm": "coffee cup in car", "alt": "A cup of coffee in a car's cup holder", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Gerald Pingol ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/disposable-coffee-cup-in-a-cars-cup-holder-OY0t_l44Fa8", "subject": "Top-down, low-key view of a car's dark center console: a white disposable coffee-cup lid sitting in one cup holder with a second, empty cup holder beside it, everything else near black.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g5-f-coffee-energy-drinks-drowsy.05fcc2ca.webp" }, "uid": "gxqmce1o6hj7e" }, { "id": "dp-g5-d-micro-sleep", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "drowsy-driving" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drowsy Driving: Avoid Falling Asleep Behind the Wheel", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drowsy-driving" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Micro sleep" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "A brief loss of consciousness that can last four or five seconds", "short": "A brief loss of consciousness" }, "uid": "1eysc82otsgqg" }, { "id": "dp-g5-p-cognitive-distraction", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "distraction" ], "source": { "label": "CDC โ€” Distracted Driving", "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/distracted-driving/about/index.html" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "Cognitive distraction" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Taking the mind off driving" }, "uid": "5sk0fj1w8wbfv" }, { "id": "dp-g5-q-texting-three-types", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "distraction" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver reads and answers a text message while driving. Which types of distraction are involved at the same time?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Visual and manual, not cognitive" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Visual only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Manual and cognitive, not visual" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Visual, manual and cognitive" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Texting and similar tasks involve all three types of distraction at the same time: the eyes leave the road, the hands leave the wheel and the mind leaves driving. A text is therefore not only a visual distraction.", "uid": "1h0yxjh1fp460d" }, { "id": "dp-g5-q-energy-drink-alone", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "drowsy-driving" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Drowsy Driving: Avoid Falling Asleep Behind the Wheel", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drowsy-driving" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver relies on an energy drink alone to stay awake on a late-night drive. Which statement about relying on it is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It fixes drowsy driving every time it is used", "short": "Fixes it every time" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It is not always enough against drowsy driving", "short": "Not always enough alone" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Its effects do not fade during a night of driving", "short": "Effects do not fade" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It is enough as long as the driver feels alert", "short": "Enough if driver feels alert" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Coffee or an energy drink alone is not always enough against drowsy driving. It might help a driver feel more alert, but the effects last only a short time, and the driver might not be as alert as he or she thinks.", "uid": "11gvq9omexmxc" }, { "id": "ot-dp-g5-impairment-below-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "alcohol" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver's blood alcohol concentration is under the legal limit. Which statement about impairment is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Impairment starts at lower levels than the legal limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Impairment starts only once the legal limit is reached" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Impairment starts only once signs of intoxication show" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Impairment starts sooner with certain types of drink" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A legal limit is a legal line, not a safe amount: impairment starts at lower blood alcohol levels than the limit, so staying under it does not make it safe to drive.", "source": { "label": "CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control โ€” Impaired Driving", "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/impaired-driving/about/index.html" }, "uid": "1tdnosmjq1ug2" }, { "id": "dp-g6-f-night-driving-and-glare", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "night-driving", "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "title": "Night driving and glare", "body": "Night driving carries greater risk mainly because drivers cannot see hazards as quickly as in daylight, so they have less time to respond. After **glare**, such as from the bright headlights of an oncoming vehicle, it can take several seconds to see normally again. A driver should not look directly into those headlights and should look toward the right side of the lane instead. At night, a driver must also be able to stop within the distance the headlights light up.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a dark two-lane road at night with the bright headlights of an oncoming vehicle shining toward the camera.", "imageSearchTerm": "headlight glare night", "alt": "Two bright headlights glaring toward the camera at night above a wet cobblestone road.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Marcus Bellamy ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/turned-on-vehicle-headlight-on-the-street-jXrJ5x2K3kg", "subject": "Low-angle night photo of two bright starburst headlights facing the camera above wet cobblestone pavement against a dark background, nothing else identifiable.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g6-f-night-driving-and-glare.866b3224.webp" }, "uid": "1r8vu6k1qlw32" }, { "id": "dp-g6-f-headlights-and-fog", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "fog", "headlights" ], "source": { "label": "National Weather Service โ€” Social Media: Fog Safety (Weather-Ready Nation); National Safety Council (Drive It Home) โ€” How to Use High Beams Properly", "url": "https://www.weather.gov/wrn/fog-sm" }, "title": "Headlights and fog", "body": "**Low-beam headlights** should be turned on when approaching fog, and the National Safety Council notes that high beams can actually limit a driver's visibility in poor weather such as rain, fog and snow. In fog, a driver should not change lanes or pass other vehicles unless absolutely necessary. The National Weather Service lists small decisions for driving in fog: to slow down, not to use cruise control, and to delay travel.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a highway in dense fog, with the road and the taillights of vehicles fading into the mist.", "imageSearchTerm": "highway in dense fog", "alt": "Two-lane road with a double yellow center line disappearing into dense fog between trees, with a yellow curve warning sign", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท TopSphere Media ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-foggy-road-with-a-yellow-sign-on-the-side-Wa7n0RT3I_8", "subject": "A two-lane road with a double yellow center line climbing into thick fog between dark trees, with utility poles and a yellow curve-warning sign on the right; no vehicles are in view.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g6-f-headlights-and-fog.0b2fc452.webp" }, "uid": "81osfj1lwai7r" }, { "id": "dp-g6-f-slick-roads", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "rain", "ice" ], "source": { "label": "National Weather Service โ€” Social Media: Winter Driving (Weather-Ready Nation)", "url": "https://www.weather.gov/wrn/winter-driving-sm" }, "title": "Roads slicker than they look", "body": "After a long dry stretch, oil and debris have built up on the road, so the road becomes slick when it first starts to rain; continuing rain washes the oil away. Roads can be slippery even when they only appear wet. Trucks and sport utility vehicles can still lose grip in snow even when they have four-wheel drive. **Black ice** can form on a road without the driver even seeing it.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a thin, glossy patch of black ice on dark asphalt pavement.", "imageSearchTerm": "wet road rain", "alt": "A wet asphalt road shining in the rain", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Wes Hicks ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/cars-on-road-near-trees-ymClijdfDH0", "subject": "Driver's-eye view of a wet divided highway in rain at dusk: asphalt shining with orange lamp and tail-light reflections, spray behind two cars ahead, rain spots on the windshield, a small green RIGHT LANE EXIT ONLY sign in the distance.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-g6-f-slick-roads.f41ef5f4.webp" }, "uid": "h3t7zu5nwb5y" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-glare-where-to-look", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "night-driving", "headlights" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At night, a driver meets the bright headlights of an oncoming vehicle. Where should the driver look to handle the glare?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Straight at the oncoming lights" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The right side of the lane" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The center of the road ahead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The left side of the lane" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A driver should not look directly into the oncoming headlights and should look toward the right side of the lane instead. Looking straight at the lights is what the guidance rules out.", "uid": "bwokkqw9fqsw" }, { "id": "dp-g6-tf-stop-within-lit-distance", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "night-driving", "stopping-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "statement": "At night, a driver must be able to stop within the distance the headlights light up.", "isTrue": true, "why": "Drivers have to make certain they can come to a stop within the distance they can see ahead, which at night is the distance the headlights light up.", "uid": "1geyef7y7d863" }, { "id": "dp-g6-cmp-high-beams-vs-low-beams", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "headlights", "fog" ], "source": { "label": "National Safety Council (Drive It Home) โ€” How to Use High Beams Properly", "url": "https://nsc.org/driveithome/dih-blog/how-to-use-high-beams-properly" }, "prompt": "Which describes high beams, rather than low beams?", "correct": { "caption": "Can limit a driver's visibility in poor weather" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Should be turned on by a driver approaching fog" }, "explanation": "High beams, the brighter setting, can actually limit a driver's visibility in poor weather such as rain, fog and snow. Low-beam headlights, the dimmer setting, should be turned on when approaching fog.", "uid": "1ladmlx1c98rsr" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-fog-speed-and-cruise-control", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "fog", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "National Weather Service โ€” Social Media: Fog Safety (Weather-Ready Nation)", "url": "https://www.weather.gov/wrn/fog-sm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In fog, what should a driver do about speed and cruise control?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Holding speed, cruise control on" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slowing down, cruise control on" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Holding speed, no cruise control" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slowing down, no cruise control" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Slowing down and not using cruise control are two of the National Weather Service's small decisions for driving in fog. Slowing down with cruise control still on gets only half of it right.", "uid": "1pn1e3xyf7ic9" }, { "id": "dp-g6-tf-four-wheel-drive-in-snow", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "ice", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "National Weather Service โ€” Social Media: Winter Driving (Weather-Ready Nation)", "url": "https://www.weather.gov/wrn/winter-driving-sm" }, "statement": "Four-wheel drive keeps trucks and sport utility vehicles from losing traction in snow.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Trucks and sport utility vehicles can still lose grip in snow even when they have four-wheel drive.", "uid": "7rcgil1o0y7vv" }, { "id": "dp-g6-f-hydroplaning-and-skids", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "hydroplaning", "skids" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2 (hydroplaning); NWS โ€” Caught in a Winter Storm; DL-7, p. 48 (skid recovery)", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "title": "Hydroplaning and skids", "body": "**Hydroplaning** happens on water or slush, when the tires lose contact with the road and have little or no traction, so the driver may not be able to steer or brake. A hydroplaning driver should release the accelerator and avoid applying the brakes. A skid is different: it is any time the tires lose their grip on the road. Recovery from a skid takes three steps: staying calm and easing the foot off the gas, turning the wheels in the direction the driver wants the front of the car to go, and gently straightening them as control comes back.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat side-view diagram in two panels: a wheel gripping dry pavement, and a wheel riding up on a wedge of blue water with a gap between tire and road; two short boxes: you may not be able to steer or brake, and release the accelerator and avoid braking.", "imageSearchTerm": "hydroplaning tire riding on water cross section diagram", "alt": "A tire gripping the road beside a tire riding on a water wedge; the driver should release the accelerator and avoid applying the brakes.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g6-f-hydroplaning-and-skids.d39efb8a.svg" }, "uid": "r4tte2c3cd1c" }, { "id": "dp-g6-f-brake-failure-and-stalls-on-tracks", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "brake-failure", "railroad-crossings", "vehicle-emergencies" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2 (brake failure); NHTSA โ€” Train & Railroad Crossing Safety for Drivers", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/campaign/railroad-crossing" }, "title": "Brake failure and stalls on tracks", "body": "After brake failure, the longer a driver waits, the faster the vehicle will go and the harder it will be to stop. Driver manuals share three core steps: shifting to a lower gear, applying the **parking brake** with care and being ready to let go of it if the vehicle starts to skid, and looking for an escape route. A freight train can take a very long distance to stop, so NHTSA's order for a car stalled at a crossing is to get everyone out, move away from the tracks and the vehicle, and call the number on the blue emergency notification system sign, or 911 if the sign is not visible.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a road crossing one railroad track: a stalled car on the track, three simple figures walking away from the track and the car, a blue roadside sign, and a freight train far up the track. Three numbered actions as short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "stalled car on railroad tracks get out move away call diagram", "alt": "A car stalled on a railroad track, three people walking away from the track and car, a blue emergency notification sign, and NHTSA's three steps.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-g6-f-brake-failure-and-stalls-on-tracks.858a0529.svg" }, "uid": "7x1tvf8mqput" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-hydroplaning-surface", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hydroplaning", "rain" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "On which of these roads can a car hydroplane?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A road with water or slush" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A dry road in fog" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A road with black ice" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A dry road with loose gravel" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Hydroplaning happens on water or slush, where the tires lose contact with the road and have little or no traction. Fog, black ice and loose gravel are different conditions, not water or slush on the road.", "uid": "8cfbyovtu744" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-hydroplaning-response", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hydroplaning", "skids" ], "source": { "label": "Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations โ€” Pilot/Escort Vehicle Operators Training Manual, Module 7: Driver Safety Issues (FHWA-HOP-16-050)", "url": "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16050/m7.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What should a driver whose car is hydroplaning do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Release the accelerator and avoid the brakes", "short": "Release gas, avoid the brakes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Brake hard to slow down as fast as possible", "short": "Brake hard to slow quickly" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Press the accelerator harder to regain control", "short": "Press the accelerator harder" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Release the accelerator and then brake hard", "short": "Release gas, then brake hard" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "With little or no traction, a driver who is hydroplaning should release the accelerator and avoid applying the brakes. Braking, even after releasing the accelerator, goes against the instruction to avoid the brakes.", "uid": "3wmu4k175oj26" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-skid-recovery-start", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "skids", "vehicle-emergencies" ], "source": { "label": "National Weather Service โ€” What To Do If You're Caught in a Winter Storm", "url": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/winter-during" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A car begins to skid. What does the driver do first?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Presses harder on the gas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Straightens the wheels at once" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eases the foot off the gas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pulls the parking brake" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Recovery starts with staying calm and easing the foot off the gas. Pressing harder on the gas works against recovery. The wheels are straightened only gently, as control comes back, and the parking brake is not one of the steps.", "uid": "hlckwv1rmld39" }, { "id": "dp-g6-proc-tire-blowout", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "tire-blowouts", "vehicle-emergencies" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Tire Safety Ratings and Awareness (Tire Blowouts section)", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/tires" }, "goal": "In a tire blowout, a driver takes three of NHTSA's five steps to keep the vehicle balanced and controllable; slamming on the brakes can cause a loss of control", "steps": [ "Holds the steering wheel with both hands", "Corrects the steering as necessary to regain control", "Once stable, slows down and pulls off where and when safe" ], "notes": "NHTSA lists five steps for a blowout; these three keep its numbered order, and the last step comes once the vehicle is stable.", "uid": "186zkb71654y7b" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-brake-failure-parking-brake", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "brake-failure", "vehicle-emergencies" ], "source": { "label": "FMCSA (host); copyright AAMVA โ€” Model Commercial Driver License Manual, Section 2", "url": "https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2005%20CDL%20DRIVER%20MANUAL%20FINAL%20July%202010.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "After brake failure, how should a driver apply the parking brake?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Hard and fast, to stop as soon as possible", "short": "Hard and fast" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "With care, ready to let go if it starts to skid", "short": "With care, let go if it skids" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "All the way, and kept on if the vehicle starts to skid", "short": "All the way, even through a skid" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only after the vehicle has stopped", "short": "Only once the vehicle stops" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The parking brake is applied with care, and the driver is ready to let go of it if the vehicle starts to skid. Applying it hard and fast goes against that caution.", "uid": "4c85j3a07uul" }, { "id": "dp-g6-q-stalled-on-tracks-first", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "vehicle-emergencies" ], "source": { "label": "NHTSA โ€” Train & Railroad Crossing Safety for Drivers", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/campaign/railroad-crossing" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In NHTSA's order for a vehicle stalled on railroad tracks, what should the driver do first?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Move away from the tracks and the vehicle", "short": "Move away from the tracks" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Check the tracks for an oncoming train", "short": "Check for an oncoming train" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Try to restart the engine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Get everyone out of the vehicle" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "In NHTSA's order, everyone gets out first; only then can the group move away from the tracks and the vehicle. The aim is to get people away before a train arrives, because a freight train can take a very long distance to stop.", "uid": "hy5ig6196buzg" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-who-goes-first", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "right-of-way", "intersections", "all-way-stops" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21800", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21800" }, "title": "Who Goes First at an Intersection", "body": "Where no sign or signal controls an intersection, the vehicle that arrives first has the right-of-way, the privilege of immediate use of the highway. When two vehicles from different highways enter an intersection with no signs or signals at the same time, California's Vehicle Code has the driver on the left yield to the vehicle on the right, unless that vehicle is on a **terminating highway**, the highway that ends at a T-intersection, whose driver yields to traffic on the continuing highway. An all-way stop has no such exception: the driver on the left yields to the vehicle on the right.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a four-way intersection with no signs or signals: two cars of different colors reach it from different roads at the same moment, the car on the right marked as going first and the car on the left marked as yielding. Flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "uncontrolled intersection right-of-way diagram two cars arriving together", "alt": "Two cars reach a sign-free intersection together: the left car yields to the right car. At a T, the ending road's car yields.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-who-goes-first.a04a84ef.svg" }, "uid": "1d3cb95hgb0mj" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-stop-and-yield-signs", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "all-way-stops", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21802", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21802" }, "title": "All-Way Stops, Stop Signs and Yield Signs", "body": "At an all-way stop, California's handbook order is that the driver stops, lets the vehicle that arrived first go, yields to the vehicle on the right if arriving at the same moment, and proceeds after checking all directions. After a full stop at a stop sign, a California driver must yield to vehicles that have approached from another highway or that are approaching so closely as to be an immediate hazard, except where stop signs are on all approaches. A **yield sign** means slowing down and being ready to stop to let any vehicle, bicyclist or pedestrian pass before proceeding.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Straight-on photograph of a standard red-and-white triangular YIELD (R1-2) sign mounted on a post", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R1-2 yield sign", "alt": "A red-and-white triangular YIELD (R1-2) sign", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Federal Highway Administration ยท Public domain", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_R1-2.svg", "subject": "A flat drawing of a downward-pointing red triangular YIELD sign with a thin white border and a white inner triangle bearing red YIELD lettering.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca1-f-stop-and-yield-signs.0f007d49.webp" }, "uid": "1tg0xn6so20ra" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-yielding-turn-or-entry", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "right-of-way", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 21801, 21804 and 21661", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21661" }, "title": "Yielding When Turning or Entering", "body": "A California driver turning left, including by U-turn, must yield to oncoming vehicles that are near enough to be a hazard. A driver entering a highway from private property or an alley must yield to traffic that is an immediate hazard. On a steep, narrow road where two vehicles cannot pass each other, the **uphill vehicle** has the right-of-way, and the downhill vehicle yields and, if necessary, backs up to a place where the vehicles can pass.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram in three panels: a top-down intersection where a left-turning car yields to an oncoming car, a top-down alley or driveway exit where a car yields to a passing car, and a side view of a steep road where the downhill car yields to the uphill car. Short labels, no numbers.", "imageSearchTerm": "yield left turn alley entry uphill right-of-way diagram", "alt": "Three scenes: a left-turning car yields to oncoming traffic, an alley car yields to the road, a downhill car backs up for an uphill car.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-yielding-turn-or-entry.71b9aedc.svg" }, "uid": "dhrz87mzkujd" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-d-intersection", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "intersections", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 365", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=365" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Intersection", "short": "Intersection" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, the area within the curb lines of two highways joining at about right angles, or where vehicles on highways joining at another angle may conflict", "short": "Where two highways meet or conflict" }, "uid": "1vsnwhs6ww508" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-all-way-same-moment", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "all-way-stops", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21800", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21800" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Two vehicles from different highways reach an all-way stop in California at the same moment. Which driver yields?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver on the left yields to the vehicle on the right", "short": "Left yields to the right" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver on the right yields to the vehicle on the left", "short": "Right yields to the left" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver in the smaller vehicle yields to the larger one", "short": "Smaller yields to the larger" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver on the narrower highway yields to the wider one", "short": "Narrower yields to the wider" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "For an intersection controlled from all directions by stop signs, Vehicle Code section 21800(c) has the driver on the left yield to the vehicle on that driver's immediate right, with no exception for a terminating highway. The handbook's all-way-stop order gives the same result.", "uid": "p895f73o10wb" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-cmp-stop-sign-or-yield", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "right-of-way", "all-way-stops" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21802", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21802" }, "prompt": "Which describes what a California driver does at a stop sign (other than an all-way stop), rather than at a yield sign?", "correct": { "caption": "Stops fully, then yields to vehicles from another highway or close enough to be an immediate hazard" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Slows down and is ready to stop, to let any vehicle, bicyclist or pedestrian pass before proceeding" }, "explanation": "At a stop sign a California driver stops fully and then yields to vehicles from another highway or close enough to be an immediate hazard, except where stop signs are on all approaches. Slowing and being ready to stop is the yield-sign duty.", "uid": "1l7fm741s2m27w" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-p-steep-road-uphill", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21661", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21661" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "Steep, narrow road with no room to pass" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "California: the uphill vehicle has the right-of-way", "short": "Uphill vehicle has the right-of-way" }, "uid": "1h9yxzo1hi0l0k" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-tf-left-turn-oncoming", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "turns", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21801", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21801" }, "statement": "A California driver turning left, including by U-turn, may go first when an oncoming vehicle is near enough to be a hazard.", "isTrue": false, "why": "A driver turning left, including by U-turn, must yield to oncoming vehicles that are near enough to be a hazard.", "uid": "1ophrcc1tveuow" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-steady-red-and-yellow", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "turn-on-red" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21453", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21453" }, "title": "Steady Red and Steady Yellow Signals", "body": "At a **steady circular red**, a California driver stops at a marked limit line if there is one, otherwise before the near crosswalk, otherwise before the intersection, and stays stopped until an indication to proceed is shown. The exception: after stopping, the driver may turn right (or turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street) unless a sign prohibits the turn, yielding to pedestrians in the adjacent crosswalk and to vehicles that are an immediate hazard. A steady yellow warns that the green movement is ending or that red will appear immediately afterward.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a vertical traffic signal head above a street showing a lit steady circular yellow light", "imageSearchTerm": "red traffic light", "alt": "A traffic signal showing a steady red light", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "uid": "478lz1wicnfn" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-flashing-out-and-green", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21457", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21457" }, "title": "Flashing, Non-Working and Green Signals", "body": "A **flashing red** signal requires a stop at the limit line, the near crosswalk or the point with a view of crossing traffic, after which a California driver may go on under the rules for a stop sign; a flashing yellow lets a driver go through only with caution. When traffic signals at an intersection are not working, a California driver must stop there and may go on with caution only when it is safe. On a green signal, even a turning driver must yield to vehicles and pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram in two panels: an intersection with a dark traffic signal and a stopped car, and an intersection with a green signal where a right-turning car yields to a pedestrian in the crosswalk and a car already in the intersection. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "dark traffic signal stop green turning yield pedestrian diagram", "alt": "Car stopped at a dark signal; right-turning car on green yielding to a pedestrian and a car in the intersection; flashing red and yellow rules.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-flashing-out-and-green.b3bf1646.svg" }, "uid": "n1vw5d7sd8wl" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-pedestrian-signals", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals", "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21456", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21456" }, "title": "Pedestrian Signals and the Countdown", "body": "A California pedestrian facing a WALK signal may cross in the direction of the signal but must yield to vehicles already lawfully within the intersection when the signal is first shown. A steady DON'T WALK, or a flashing DON'T WALK with no countdown, means the pedestrian must not start to cross; one who started on WALK and is partway across continues to a sidewalk or safety zone or otherwise leaves the roadway. A flashing signal with a **countdown** lets the pedestrian start, but the crossing must be finished before the steady DON'T WALK appears when the countdown ends.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a pedestrian signal head at a crosswalk showing a flashing orange hand with a countdown number, daylight, the signal face clearly visible.", "imageSearchTerm": "pedestrian countdown signal", "alt": "A pedestrian signal head with a lit upraised hand and a blank countdown display beside it.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Pexels ยท R9 Media Photo Collective ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/pedestrian-traffic-light-with-red-signal-outdoors-39606499/", "subject": "A pedestrian signal head on a black pole against a blue sky, its upraised hand lit red-orange and its two-digit countdown display unlit, with a utility pole and trees behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca1-f-pedestrian-signals.c11cd401.webp" }, "uid": "1iihrkf1fevqtb" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-cmp-flashing-red-stop-place", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "traffic-signals" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21457", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21457" }, "prompt": "Which describes where a California driver makes the stop at a flashing red signal, rather than at a steady red signal?", "correct": { "caption": "At the limit line, the near crosswalk or the point with a view of crossing traffic" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "At the limit line, the near crosswalk or the point just before the intersection" }, "explanation": "A flashing red requires a stop at the limit line, the near crosswalk or the point with a view of crossing traffic. At a steady red the last choice is instead just before the intersection, and the driver stays stopped except for the turns it allows after a stop.", "uid": "l5vh2xiu0ryj" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-cmp-countdown-or-none", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "pedestrian-signals" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21456", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21456" }, "prompt": "Which describes a California pedestrian facing a flashing signal with a countdown?", "correct": { "caption": "May start to cross in the direction of the signal, but must finish before the steady DON'T WALK appears" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Must not start to cross; one already partway across on WALK continues to a sidewalk or safety zone" }, "explanation": "With a countdown, a flashing signal lets the pedestrian start but requires finishing before the steady DON'T WALK appears. With no countdown, or a steady DON'T WALK, the pedestrian must not start to cross.", "uid": "awvymvn9b5g5" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-signals-out", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21800", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21800" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The traffic signals at a California intersection are not working. What does the Vehicle Code require of an approaching driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Slowing down and going through only if no vehicle is close", "short": "Slowing, then going through" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Waiting there until the signals are working again", "short": "Waiting for signals to work" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping and going on with caution only when it is safe", "short": "Stopping, then going on if safe" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Going through at normal speed since no signal applies", "short": "Going through at normal speed" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A California driver must stop at an intersection whose signals are not working, and may go on with caution only when it is safe. Slowing and going through skips the required stop, and waiting for the signals adds a wait the rule does not require.", "uid": "1d474qycjhq9i" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-green-turn-yield", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21451", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21451" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver turns left on a green signal while a pedestrian is lawfully crossing in the adjacent crosswalk. Which choice follows the Vehicle Code?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Going first, because a green signal gives the right-of-way", "short": "Going first on a green signal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Waiting for a WALK signal before making the turn", "short": "Waiting for a WALK signal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding only to oncoming vehicles, not to pedestrians", "short": "Yielding to vehicles only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding to the pedestrian, even though the signal is green", "short": "Yielding to the pedestrian" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "On a green signal, even a turning driver must yield to vehicles and pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk. The green signal does not end that duty.", "uid": "1nmkiikdmnjuo" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-tf-right-turn-on-red", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "traffic-signals" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21453", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21453" }, "statement": "After stopping at a steady circular red signal, a California driver may turn right unless a sign prohibits the turn, yielding to pedestrians in the adjacent crosswalk and to vehicles that are an immediate hazard.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Vehicle Code lets a driver turn right on a red signal only after stopping, unless a sign prohibits the turn, and the driver must yield to pedestrians in the adjacent crosswalk and to vehicles that are an immediate hazard.", "uid": "tvoav01yiwa7k" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-d-crosswalk", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 275", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=275" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Crosswalk", "short": "Crosswalk" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, the extension of sidewalk lines where roads meet (except lines from an alley) or a marked pedestrian crossing; none where signs say no crossing", "short": "Marked or unmarked pedestrian crossing" }, "uid": "1rue7vnsi3v2h" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-yield-to-pedestrians", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 21950, 21951 and 21963", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21950" }, "title": "Yielding to Pedestrians in Crosswalks", "body": "A California driver must yield to a pedestrian crossing in a marked crosswalk, or in an **unmarked crosswalk** at an intersection. A driver approaching a pedestrian in a crosswalk must exercise all due care and reduce speed or take any other action as necessary to safeguard the pedestrian. A driver may not pass a vehicle that has stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross. A totally or partially blind pedestrian carrying a white cane or using a guide dog has the right-of-way under the Vehicle Code.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of pedestrians crossing a city street in a marked crosswalk, seen from a distance so no face is identifiable, no readable text", "imageSearchTerm": "pedestrians crossing marked crosswalk", "alt": "Pedestrians crossing a city street in a marked crosswalk", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Chris Barbalis ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/people-walking-on-pedestrian-lane-during-daytime-eZsT7oQhG4I", "subject": "A close daytime view of a crowd crossing on wide white zebra stripes over gray asphalt, seen from the waist down with motion blur, with no vehicles, signs or readable text in frame.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca1-f-yield-to-pedestrians.084cc5cc.webp" }, "uid": "15gcx1z6jzx0v" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-outside-crosswalk-and-gridlock", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pedestrians", "intersections" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 21954, 21663 and 22526", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22526" }, "title": "Outside Crosswalks, Sidewalks and Gridlock", "body": "A pedestrian outside a crosswalk in California must yield to vehicles so near on the roadway as to be an immediate hazard, but that does not relieve a driver of the duty to use due care for the safety of any pedestrian on the roadway. Unless the Vehicle Code expressly permits otherwise, a motor vehicle may be driven on or across a sidewalk only as necessary to enter or leave adjacent property. California's **Anti-Gridlock Act** bars a driver from entering an intersection or marked crosswalk without room to clear it on the far side, even on a green signal.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of one intersection shown twice: left, a car stopped inside the intersection on green with traffic backed up beyond it and a cross-street car blocked (crossed out); right, the car waiting short of the crosswalk until there is room to clear. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "anti-gridlock do not block the intersection diagram", "alt": "One intersection twice, traffic backed up beyond it: a car entering on green with no room to clear (barred), and a car waiting short.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-outside-crosswalk-and-gridlock.5cb086e1.svg" }, "uid": "echn4k1ji8hjm" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-unmarked-crosswalk", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21950", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21950" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A pedestrian starts to cross at a California intersection where no crosswalk lines are painted. How must an approaching driver respond under the Vehicle Code?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Continuing because only painted crosswalks count", "short": "Continuing: only painted count" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding because an intersection has an unmarked crosswalk", "short": "Yielding at unmarked crosswalks" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Continuing because the pedestrian must yield to the vehicle", "short": "Continuing: pedestrian yields" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding only when the pedestrian has a WALK signal", "short": "Yielding only on a WALK signal" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A California driver must yield to a pedestrian crossing in a marked crosswalk or in an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, so painted lines are not required. The pedestrian is not the one who must yield here.", "uid": "qv3sw21rax5g4" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-blocked-intersection", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "intersections", "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22526", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22526" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver faces a green signal, but stopped traffic ahead blocks the far side of the crosswalk and intersection. What does the Anti-Gridlock Act require?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping short of the crosswalk until there is room", "short": "Stopping short of the crosswalk" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping inside the crosswalk until traffic moves", "short": "Stopping inside the crosswalk" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Entering anyway because a green signal means go", "short": "Entering: a green means go" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Entering only if the signal has just turned green", "short": "Entering only if green is new" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "California's Anti-Gridlock Act bars a driver from entering an intersection or marked crosswalk without room to clear it on the far side, even on a green signal, so stopping inside the crosswalk is barred as well.", "uid": "erq6jazu30nu" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-tf-pass-stopped-vehicle", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21951", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21951" }, "statement": "A California driver may pass a vehicle that has stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross.", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Vehicle Code says a driver may not pass a vehicle that has stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross.", "uid": "58taf4a91z2k" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-emergency-vehicle-approaches", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21806", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21806" }, "title": "When an Emergency Vehicle Approaches", "body": "When an authorized **emergency vehicle** approaches sounding a siren, with a lighted red lamp visible from 1,000 feet under normal atmospheric conditions, a California driver must, unless a traffic officer directs otherwise, drive immediately to the right-hand edge or curb, clear of any intersection, and stay stopped until it passes. A driver in an exclusive or preferential lane must instead exit that lane as soon as that can be done with reasonable safety. Going to an emergency scene to view it, and so impeding emergency personnel, is a misdemeanor under Penal Code section 402.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a two-lane road: ordinary cars have pulled to the right-hand edge and stopped, clear of the intersection, while an ambulance with flashing lights passes in the lane between them. Flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "cars pulled to the right while an emergency vehicle passes diagram", "alt": "An ambulance approaches; a car in each direction has pulled to the right-hand edge and stopped, short of a side street.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-emergency-vehicle-approaches.96b5bbd3.svg" }, "uid": "1n14hy4ut2gcq" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-distances-near-rails", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "emergency-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 22451, 21706 and 22521", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22451" }, "title": "Distances Near Emergency Vehicles and Rails", "body": "California bars other motor vehicles from following within 300 feet of an emergency vehicle responding under the Vehicle Code's exemption. At a railroad or rail transit crossing, an ordinary driver must stop at least 15 feet from the nearest rail when a signal device or flagman warns, or when a train is visible or audible and an immediate hazard. No person may park a vehicle upon a railroad track or within seven and a half feet of the nearest rail. A driver may not go through, around or under a **closed railroad crossing gate**.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a railroad grade crossing with a lowered crossing gate arm and flashing signal lights, daylight, no train in view and no vehicles in the frame.", "imageSearchTerm": "railroad crossing gate", "alt": "Black-and-white photo of a U.S. railroad crossing: crossbuck, 2 TRACKS plate and signal lights, with a train blurring past behind.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Warren Valentine ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-black-and-white-railroad-crossing-signal-l9kWk83mLM8", "subject": "Black-and-white close-up of a U.S. crossing signal mast: crossbuck reading RAIL ROAD CROSSING with a 2 TRACKS plaque, lit signal lamps, a lowered striped gate arm with small lights, and a blurred train passing behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca1-f-distances-near-rails.26d99e57.webp" }, "uid": "987qsiylbisc" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-f-buses-and-hazmat-at-rails", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "buses" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22452", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22452" }, "title": "Buses and Hazardous-Material Vehicles at Crossings", "body": "A bus carrying passengers, a school bus carrying pupils and a commercial motor vehicle placarded for listed hazardous materials must stop at every California railroad crossing, **15 to 50 feet** from the nearest rail, and listen and look both ways, unless the Vehicle Code excuses the stop, for example where an officer or traffic signal directs traffic to proceed. Such a vehicle must not shift gears manually while crossing the tracks. An ordinary driver, by contrast, stops at least 15 feet from the nearest rail when warned of a train.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of two lanes ending at a railroad track: a car stopped at least 15 feet from the nearest rail, and a bus stopped inside a shaded zone from 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail, with distance brackets. Short labels, not to scale.", "imageSearchTerm": "bus stop 15 to 50 feet railroad crossing diagram", "alt": "Two lanes toward a railroad: a car stopped at least 15 feet from the nearest rail, and a bus stopped within a shaded 15-to-50-foot zone.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca1-f-buses-and-hazmat-at-rails.b49bd25a.svg" }, "uid": "d3ufu1l5lfk" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-proc-emergency-vehicle-path", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21806", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21806" }, "goal": "California drivers give an approaching emergency vehicle a clear path, unless a traffic officer directs otherwise (a driver in a preferential lane exits it)", "steps": [ "Moving immediately to the right-hand edge or curb", "Stopping at that edge or curb, clear of any intersection", "Staying stopped until the emergency vehicle has passed" ], "uid": "1g6qdnl1grsv5j" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-cmp-bus-or-ordinary-driver", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "buses" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22452", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22452" }, "prompt": "Which describes where a California bus carrying passengers must stop at a railroad crossing, rather than an ordinary driver?", "correct": { "caption": "Stopping 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail, unless the Vehicle Code excuses the stop" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Stopping at least 15 feet from the nearest rail when a signal device or flagman warns" }, "explanation": "A bus carrying passengers, a school bus carrying pupils or a placarded hazardous-material vehicle stops 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail, unless the Vehicle Code excuses the stop. An ordinary driver stops at least 15 feet away when a signal device or flagman warns.", "uid": "1lptd2l17d41kz" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-c-scene-viewing-misdemeanor", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Penal Code section 402", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=402" }, "template": "In California, going to the scene of an emergency for the purpose of viewing it, and so impeding police, firefighters or other emergency personnel, is ___ under Penal Code section 402.", "answer": "a misdemeanor", "distractors": [ "a felony", "an infraction", "a civil violation" ], "explanation": "Penal Code section 402 makes going to an emergency scene to view it, and so impeding police, firefighters or other emergency personnel, a misdemeanor, not a felony or an infraction.", "uid": "7ublhz1hp34pp" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-emergency-follow-distance", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21706", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21706" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver comes up behind an emergency vehicle that is responding under the Vehicle Code's exemption. California bars following it within how many feet?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "100 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1,000 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "300 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 feet" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "California bars other motor vehicles from following within 300 feet of an emergency vehicle responding under the Vehicle Code's exemption. The bar is 300 feet, not 50, 100 or 1,000.", "uid": "osykhvlw8iir" }, { "id": "dp-ca1-q-barred-at-crossing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22451", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22451" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which action does the California Vehicle Code bar at a railroad crossing?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping when a flagman warns of a train", "short": "Stopping for a train warning" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Going around a closed crossing gate", "short": "Going around a closed gate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Parking ten feet from the nearest rail", "short": "Parking ten feet from a rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping a bus 40 feet from the nearest rail", "short": "Bus stopping 40 feet from rail" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "California bars a driver from going through, around or under a closed railroad crossing gate. Stopping when a flagman warns is required, ten feet is outside the seven-and-a-half-foot zone where parking is barred, and a bus carrying passengers may stop 15 to 50 feet away.", "uid": "1r8ppvs6v3rmq" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-speed-law-limit-types", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22350", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22350" }, "title": "Basic speed law and limit types", "body": "California's **basic speed law** (Vehicle Code section 22350) bars driving faster than is reasonable or prudent given weather, visibility, traffic, and the surface and width of the road. A prima facie speed limit, such as California's 15 and 25 mph limits, makes a speed within it lawful unless clearly proved to violate that law, and a speed above it prima facie unlawful unless the driver shows otherwise. A maximum limit, such as 65 mph, is not prima facie (VC 22348): no one may exceed it.", "uid": "9r0vwyrr4blq" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-maximum-limits-slow-driving", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22349", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22349" }, "title": "Maximum limits and slow driving", "body": "California's **general maximum speed limit** is 65 mph (Vehicle Code section 22349), except that VC 22356 lets the Department of Transportation declare and post 70 mph on some state highways. On a two-lane undivided highway the maximum is 55 mph unless a higher limit is posted after a survey. The 55 mph limit under VC 22406 includes trucks with three or more axles, trucks and passenger vehicles drawing another vehicle, and school buses carrying pupils. California's minimum speed rule (VC 22400) bars driving so slowly as to impede traffic unless necessary.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a white rectangular R2-1 SPEED LIMIT regulatory sign showing 65, mounted beside a divided highway in California in daylight, with no vehicles in focus", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R2-1 speed limit 65 sign", "alt": "A white rectangular SPEED LIMIT 55 sign on a wooden post beside a road, with dry golden hills behind.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Ludovic Charlet ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/speed-limit-55-signage-on-road-CGWK6k2RduY", "subject": "A white rectangular SPEED LIMIT 55 sign with black lettering on a wooden post beside a road, with dry golden hills, a line of trees and a clear blue sky behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca2-f-maximum-limits-slow-driving.53a347b6.webp" }, "uid": "sxx4fa16xr4f2" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-p-basic-speed-law", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22350", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22350" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "California's basic speed law" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "No driving faster than is reasonable or prudent for conditions" }, "uid": "1fro2af1ieojmr" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-cmp-prima-facie-or-maximum", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22351", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22351" }, "prompt": "Which describes a California prima facie speed limit, rather than a maximum limit?", "correct": { "caption": "A driver may show that a higher speed was not unlawful" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "No one may exceed it, so a higher speed is unlawful" }, "explanation": "A speed above a prima facie limit is prima facie unlawful unless the driver shows otherwise. Saying that no one may exceed a limit describes a maximum limit, which is not prima facie.", "uid": "by0kxh2u12qz" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-general-maximum-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22349", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22349" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is the general maximum speed limit on California highways under the Vehicle Code?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "55 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "65 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "70 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "California's general maximum is 65 mph (VC 22349), except that VC 22356 lets the Department of Transportation declare and post 70 mph on some state highways. On a two-lane undivided highway the maximum is 55 mph unless a higher limit is posted after a survey.", "uid": "1kkq1e6175phco" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-c-vehicles-limited-to-55", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22406", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22406" }, "template": "In California, the maximum speed limit for trucks with three or more axles, trucks and passenger vehicles drawing another vehicle, and school buses carrying pupils is ___.", "answer": "55 mph", "distractors": [ "45 mph", "65 mph", "70 mph" ], "explanation": "Vehicle Code section 22406 holds these vehicles to 55 mph, below California's general maximum of 65 mph.", "uid": "1p7becye3bbfg" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-fifteen-mph-places", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "title": "Where California sets 15 mph", "body": "Under Vehicle Code section 22352, the speed limit on any alley in California is **15 mph**. The limit is also 15 mph at a railway crossing where, in the last 100 feet of the approach, the driver cannot see 400 feet in both directions, except where a flagperson is on duty or a signal device is not warning of a train.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a narrow paved alley running behind a row of buildings, no people, no vehicles, no readable text", "imageSearchTerm": "narrow paved alley behind buildings", "alt": "A narrow paved alley running behind a row of buildings", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Ethan Wilkinson ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/no-people-walking-at-the-alley-during-daytime-7Htuq9XQCvk", "subject": "A narrow cracked asphalt lane running between tall red-brick walls and buildings, with overhead wires, lamp posts and a few weeds, and no people or vehicles.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca2-f-fifteen-mph-places.a36c193c.webp" }, "uid": "1g193ra1pm7kng" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-twenty-five-mph-places", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "school-zone-speeds" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "title": "Where California sets 25 mph", "body": "California sets **25 mph** on any highway in a business or residence district unless another speed is set. It also sets 25 mph when a driver is approaching or passing a school marked with a SCHOOL warning sign while children are going to or leaving school during school hours or the noon recess. The school rule is in the version of Vehicle Code section 22352 in effect only until 1 Jan 2031.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a fluorescent yellow-green pentagon-shaped S1-1 SCHOOL warning sign showing two walking pupils, mounted beside a residential street in daylight, with no people in the frame", "imageSearchTerm": "school crossing sign", "alt": "A fluorescent yellow-green pentagon school crossing sign showing two walking pupils, above a PED XING plaque.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Steve DiMatteo ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/yellow-and-black-no-smoking-sign-D3XbeBFgl8I", "subject": "A fluorescent yellow-green pentagon sign showing two walking pupils, mounted above a matching PED XING plaque, with houses and trees blurred behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca2-f-twenty-five-mph-places.f3ddf13c.webp" }, "uid": "hbajq46h1mwc" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-school-sign-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "school-zone-speeds", "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Until 1 Jan 2031, what limit does California set when a driver is approaching or passing a school marked with a SCHOOL warning sign while children are going to or leaving school?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "30 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "25 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "35 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "10 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "VC 22352 sets 25 mph there during school hours or the noon recess, in the version in effect only until 1 Jan 2031, so 30 and 35 mph do not apply. California's handbook words the zone differently, as within 500 feet of a school while children are outside or crossing the street.", "uid": "12kqrwj1movzxt" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-blind-railway-crossing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, what limit applies at a railway crossing where, in the last 100 feet of the approach, the driver cannot see 400 feet in both directions?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "25 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "10 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "35 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "VC 22352 sets 15 mph there, except where a flagperson is on duty or a signal device is not warning of a train. The business and residence district limit is a separate rule.", "uid": "jyy0d8nz0i9o" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-c-alley-limit", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "template": "On any alley in California, the speed limit is ___.", "answer": "15 mph", "distractors": [ "10 mph", "20 mph", "25 mph" ], "explanation": "Vehicle Code section 22352 sets the speed limit on any alley at 15 mph.", "uid": "1qweh5g12zaep2" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-tf-business-residence-limit", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22352", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22352" }, "statement": "In California, the speed limit on a highway in a business or residence district is 35 mph unless another speed is set.", "isTrue": false, "why": "California sets 25 mph on any highway in a business or residence district unless another speed is set, not 35 mph.", "uid": "1ottxjq1r1cyeo" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-general-following-rule", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21703", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21703" }, "title": "California's general following rule", "body": "California's general following rule, Vehicle Code section 21703, sets no time or distance. A driver must not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent given speed, traffic and the road, and doing so is **following too closely**.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph from behind of two cars on a road, one following the other at a distance; no readable license plates. No readable text, brands or logos.", "imageSearchTerm": "cars driving on freeway", "alt": "Cars following one another at a distance along a freeway, seen from behind", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Pexels ยท Ekaterina Belinskaya ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photo-of-cars-on-highway-4744692/", "subject": "Black-and-white photo from a driver's viewpoint down a busy multi-lane Los Angeles freeway: cars ahead in several lanes at varied distances, a clear gap in the middle lane, a small overhead exit sign near the vanishing point (White Oak Ave / Reseda Blvd, barely legible), trees on both sides and empt", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca2-f-general-following-rule.7b7beb96.webp" }, "factVariant": "image-heavy", "uid": "1sk9h5mws2ori" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-f-three-second-rule", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 84", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=84#page=90" }, "title": "The handbook's three-second rule", "body": "California's driver handbook teaches a safe following distance of three seconds behind the vehicle ahead, while the general following rule in VC 21703 sets no time or distance. Its glossary defines the **three-second rule** as counting three seconds after the vehicle ahead passes a fixed point, such as a sign; passing the same point before finishing the count means following too closely.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat side-on diagram of two road strips each with a roadside sign as the fixed point and a timer bar: in the first the following car reaches the sign after three seconds (safe), in the second it reaches the sign before the count ends (too close). Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "three second rule following distance fixed point diagram", "alt": "Two strips with a sign and a three-second bar: the following car reaches the sign after the count (safe) or before it ends (too close).", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca2-f-three-second-rule.0836a8d5.svg" }, "uid": "18og7ymhtpgbm" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-cmp-three-second-source", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 84", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=84#page=90" }, "prompt": "A California driver reaches a roadside sign two seconds after the vehicle ahead passed it. Which rule does that gap fall short of?", "correct": { "caption": "The handbook's three-second rule" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "The Vehicle Code's three-second rule" }, "explanation": "The three-second rule is the handbook's: passing the same point before finishing the count means following too closely. The Vehicle Code's general following rule, VC 21703, sets no time or distance.", "uid": "10thud31irgzs5" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-following-rule-bars", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21703", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21703" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which act does California's general following rule in the Vehicle Code, VC 21703, bar?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Following more closely than is reasonable and prudent", "short": "Following a vehicle too closely" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Following a vehicle by less than a set number of seconds", "short": "Following under a set time gap" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Driving faster than is reasonable or prudent for conditions", "short": "Driving too fast for conditions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Driving so slowly as to impede other traffic", "short": "Impeding traffic by slow driving" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "VC 21703 bars following more closely than is reasonable and prudent given speed, traffic and the road, and it sets no time or distance. A gap counted in seconds is the handbook's rule, not the general following rule's.", "uid": "834pu2nc9o3g" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-handbook-following-seconds", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 57", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=57#page=63" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many seconds behind the vehicle ahead does California's driver handbook teach as a safe following distance?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Two seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Four seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five seconds" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "California's driver handbook teaches three seconds behind the vehicle ahead; two, four and five seconds are not its figure. The Vehicle Code's general following rule sets no time or distance.", "uid": "1c83t2ot9knuo" }, { "id": "dp-ca2-q-minimum-speed-rule", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22400", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22400" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver drives far below the speed of traffic for no necessary reason, and traffic backs up behind. Which rule bars this?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The basic speed law" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The general following rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The minimum speed rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A maximum speed limit" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "California's minimum speed rule (VC 22400) bars driving so slowly as to impede traffic unless necessary. The basic speed law bars driving too fast for conditions, and the general following rule bars following too closely.", "uid": "1ogrox79csjq7" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-hand-and-arm-signals", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "hand-signals", "turn-signals" ], "title": "California Hand and Arm Signals", "body": "A California driver gives turn and stop signals with signal lamps. A vehicle not required to have signal lamps, such as a bicycle, uses **hand and arm signals**, and so does any driver whose lamps stop working while driving. In California, the left arm held out horizontally signals a left turn, held up signals a right turn, and held down signals a stop or slowdown. A bicyclist in California may signal a right turn by pointing the right arm out.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Simple flat diagram of a car seen from behind with a driver's left arm shown in three positions: held out horizontally, held up and held down, each labeled with its meaning (left turn, right turn, stop or slowdown). Silhouette only, no face, no readable plate.", "imageSearchTerm": "driver hand and arm signals diagram left turn right turn stop", "alt": "Driver's left arm out, up, down: left turn, right turn, stop or slowdown. A bicyclist's right arm out: right turn.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-hand-and-arm-signals.bf50fe88.svg" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22111", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22111" }, "uid": "cn8e14obpgwa" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-signaling-and-turn-position", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "turn-signals", "turns" ], "title": "California Signaling and Turn Position", "body": "A California driver may not come to a stop or abruptly slow on a highway without first giving an appropriate signal to the driver immediately behind, when there is an opportunity to give one. A right turn is made, in both the approach and the turn, **as close as practicable** to the right curb or edge, with exceptions such as for one-way roads and marked turn lanes. A left turn is approached as close as practicable to the left-hand edge of the extreme left lane lawfully available to traffic going that way, and is not begun before the vehicle enters the intersection.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22109", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22109" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a four-way intersection: a car in the right lane hugging the right curb through a right turn, and a car in the extreme left lane near its left edge that begins its left turn only after entering the intersection, marked by a dashed line. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "right turn left turn lane position intersection diagram", "alt": "A car hugs the right curb through a right turn; another in the extreme left lane begins its left turn inside the intersection.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-signaling-and-turn-position.1f82d6f5.svg" }, "uid": "9agonp1frpoqd" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-red-arrow-bars-turn", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "traffic-signals" ], "title": "California Red Arrows", "body": "A **red arrow** in California bars the turn the arrow points to. Unlike a steady circular red, which allows a right turn, or a left turn from a one-way street onto a one-way street, after a stop unless a sign bars it, a red arrow does not allow its turn, even after stopping.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Close photograph of a vehicle traffic signal face showing a lit red arrow, taken from an archive such as Wikimedia Commons or a state transportation department. No license plates, no identifiable people.", "imageSearchTerm": "red left turn arrow signal", "alt": "A traffic signal face showing a lit red arrow", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21453", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21453" }, "uid": "1l3d1nq1izc6fu" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-p-left-arm-up", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "hand-signals" ], "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "Left arm held up" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Signals a right turn in California" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22111", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22111" }, "uid": "tb83pl1b6z8a1" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-cmp-red-light-or-red-arrow", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "traffic-signals" ], "prompt": "Which statement fits a California driver who faces a red arrow pointing the way the driver wants to turn?", "correct": { "caption": "The turn the arrow points to is barred, even after stopping" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "The turn is allowed after stopping, unless a sign bars it" }, "explanation": "A steady circular red allows a right turn after a stop unless a sign bars it. A red arrow bars the turn it points to, so the steady-red rule does not carry over to an arrow.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21453", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21453" }, "uid": "8haduf1iq6w9b" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-left-turn-approach", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "turns" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver approaches an intersection to turn left. Which approach does the Vehicle Code require?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "In the rightmost lane, to stay clear of through traffic", "short": "Rightmost lane, out of the way" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "In any lane, as long as the driver signals first", "short": "Any lane, if the driver signals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "In the leftmost lane for that direction, near its left edge", "short": "Leftmost lane, near left edge" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "In whichever lane has the fewest vehicles waiting", "short": "Lane with the fewest waiting" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A California left turn is approached as close as practicable to the left-hand edge of the extreme left lane lawfully available to traffic going that way, and is not begun before the vehicle enters the intersection. Signaling does not change the lane.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22100", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22100" }, "uid": "owaj0e1u4ruk2" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-left-on-red-one-way", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "turns" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver on a one-way street faces a steady circular red light and wants to turn left onto a one-way street. What is allowed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A left turn after slowing if the crosswalk is clear", "short": "Left after slowing if clear" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A left turn only when the light turns green", "short": "Left only on a green light" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A left turn after stopping, unless a sign bars it", "short": "Left after stopping, if no sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A left turn after stopping, with priority over pedestrians", "short": "Left, priority over pedestrians" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "After stopping, a left turn from a one-way street onto a one-way street is allowed on a steady circular red unless a sign bars it, and the driver yields to pedestrians in the adjacent crosswalk and to vehicles that are an immediate hazard. Waiting for green is not required.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21453", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21453" }, "uid": "1fv1bqve1v35j" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-c-signal-to-driver-behind", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "turn-signals" ], "template": "A California driver may not come to a stop or abruptly slow on a highway without first giving an appropriate signal to the driver immediately ___, when there is an opportunity to give one.", "answer": "behind", "distractors": [ "ahead", "beside", "opposite" ], "explanation": "The signal goes to the driver immediately behind, who follows the stopping or slowing vehicle, when there is an opportunity to give one. Drivers ahead, beside or opposite are not the ones the rule names.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22109", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22109" }, "uid": "26tbk41owje3w" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-yellow-lines-and-turnouts", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "lanes" ], "title": "California Yellow Lines and Turnouts", "body": "A California driver may not drive to the left of **double solid yellow lines** except as the Vehicle Code permits. Where one line of a double yellow pair is broken, a driver on the broken-line side may cross to pass. Two sets of double yellow lines two or more feet apart are a barrier, a dividing section not less than two feet wide marked by curbs, double parallel lines or other markings. On a two-lane road, a slow vehicle with five or more vehicles following must use a turnout, a place to pull off the road, where passing is unsafe.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Top-down diagram of a two-lane road center line showing a pair of double solid yellow lines beside a pair with one broken yellow line, with arrows and short labels showing which side may cross to pass. No vehicles with readable plates, no people.", "imageSearchTerm": "double solid yellow lines and broken yellow line center line diagram", "alt": "Four panels: no driving left of double solid lines, crossing from the broken-line side, a two-set barrier, a turnout for a slow vehicle.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-yellow-lines-and-turnouts.1cc10768.svg" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21460", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21460" }, "uid": "yh84mm1uef1de" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-lane-use-and-center-lane", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "lanes", "turns" ], "title": "California Lane Use and the Center Lane", "body": "On a roadway with two or more marked lanes in one direction, a California driver must stay as nearly as practical entirely within a single lane and not leave it until the move can be made with reasonable safety. A California **center left-turn lane** is bounded by double yellow lines, the inner line dashed and the outer line solid, and may be used only to prepare for or make a left turn, or a U-turn where otherwise permitted by law. Where a two-way left-turn lane has been designated, no left turn or U-turn may be made from any other lane.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a city street with a center two-way left-turn lane bounded on each side by a dashed and a solid yellow line, taken from a state transportation archive or Wikimedia Commons. No readable license plates, no identifiable people.", "imageSearchTerm": "center turn lane", "alt": "A street with a center left-turn lane marked on each side by a dashed and a solid yellow line", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "place" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21460.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21460.5" }, "uid": "1l2lv9913yd9c7" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-turn-lanes-and-u-turns", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "u-turns", "turns" ], "title": "California Turn Lanes and U-Turns", "body": "A **dedicated right-turn lane** in California does not merge into another lane and lets a driver turn right without stopping, even on a red light for through traffic, but the driver must obey a light or sign at the right curb of that lane and always yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. A right turn from a one-way highway may finish in any lane lawfully available. In a business district, California allows a U-turn only at an intersection or at an opening in a divided highway. At a signal-controlled intersection, a U-turn may be made only from the far left lane lawfully available.", "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), pp. 19-20; Vehicle Code sections 22100, 22100.5 and 22102", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=19#page=25" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram in two panels: a signalized intersection with a separate right-turn lane where a car turns right past stopped through traffic and yields to a pedestrian, and an intersection where a car makes a U-turn from the far left lane. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "dedicated right turn lane and U-turn from far left lane diagram", "alt": "A car in the right-turn lane yields to a pedestrian; a car makes a U-turn from the far left lane at a signal.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-turn-lanes-and-u-turns.bc72fa24.svg" }, "uid": "qkjww51unrka9" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-cmp-double-yellow-barrier", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "pavement-markings", "lanes" ], "prompt": "Which statement about a barrier made of double yellow lines on a California road is correct?", "correct": { "caption": "Two sets of double yellow lines two or more feet apart form a barrier" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Two sets of double yellow lines less than two feet apart form a barrier" }, "explanation": "The handbook calls two sets of double yellow lines two or more feet apart a barrier, and Vehicle Code section 21651 describes the dividing section as not less than two feet wide, marked by curbs, double parallel lines or other markings, so a narrower gap is not one.", "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 13", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=13#page=19" }, "uid": "u7yd6818a5gdm" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-center-lane-purpose", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "lanes", "turns" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver enters a center lane bounded by double yellow lines, the inner line dashed and the outer line solid. Which purpose does the Vehicle Code allow?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "To prepare for a left turn" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To pass slower traffic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To wait for a parking space" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To reach the next intersection" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A center left-turn lane may be used only to prepare for or make a left turn, or a U-turn where otherwise permitted by law. Passing, waiting for a parking space and traveling on to the next intersection are not permitted uses.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21460.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21460.5" }, "uid": "s2c0wk1n2ovv6" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-u-turn-business-district", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "u-turns" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In a California business district, where may a driver make a U-turn?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anywhere the road ahead is clear of oncoming traffic", "short": "Anywhere the road is clear" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "At a driveway or a parking lot entrance on the block", "short": "Driveway or parking lot entrance" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anywhere the center line is a broken line", "short": "Anywhere the line is broken" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "At an intersection or an opening in a divided highway", "short": "Intersection or median opening" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "In a business district, California allows a U-turn only at an intersection or at an opening in a divided highway. A clear road, a driveway or parking lot entrance, or a broken center line does not make a U-turn lawful there.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22102", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22102" }, "uid": "8oijq45xf3bu" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-tf-turnout-three-vehicles", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles", "lanes" ], "statement": "On a two-lane road in California, a slow vehicle must use a turnout where passing is unsafe once three or more vehicles are following.", "isTrue": false, "why": "The duty starts at five or more following vehicles, not three: on a two-lane road in California, a slow vehicle with five or more vehicles following must use a turnout, a place to pull off the road, where passing is unsafe.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21656", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21656" }, "uid": "1pob24uqsksv8" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-passing-on-the-left", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "passing" ], "title": "California Passing on the Left", "body": "A California driver passes on the left at a safe distance. On a two-lane highway, no vehicle may be driven to the left of center to pass unless the view of the left side is clear and no oncoming traffic is there for far enough ahead to finish the pass safely. California bars passing on the left on a **crest or curve** where the view is obstructed, and within 100 feet of a bridge, viaduct or tunnel when the view is obstructed. It also bars passing on the left within 100 feet of, or while traversing, an intersection or a railroad grade crossing. These bars do not apply on a one-way roadway.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 21751 and 21752", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21752" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram in two panels of a two-lane road with a yellow center line: a car pulling out to pass on a curve where a hill hides an oncoming car, and a car about to pass within 100 feet of a bridge with the view blocked. Both crossed out. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "no passing blind curve crest bridge 100 feet diagram", "alt": "Two crossed-out passes: on a curve where a hill hides oncoming traffic, and within 100 ft of a bridge with the view blocked.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-passing-on-the-left.51bf7c0b.svg" }, "uid": "cbqoxc1d12y2q" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-passing-right-and-hov-lines", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "passing", "hov-lanes" ], "title": "California Passing Right and HOV Lines", "body": "California allows passing on the right when the vehicle ahead is turning left and on multi-lane and one-way roads, but not by driving off the paved portion. A vehicle moving slower than the normal speed of traffic keeps to the right-hand lane or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing or preparing for a left turn. Where double parallel solid lines lie to the right of a **high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane**, no driver may cross them to enter or exit it, except to leave for an approaching emergency vehicle displaying a red light or siren.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a California freeway high-occupancy vehicle lane with its diamond pavement marking and double solid white lines on its right edge, taken from a state transportation archive or Wikimedia Commons. No readable license plates, no identifiable people.", "imageSearchTerm": "HOV lane freeway", "alt": "A freeway high-occupancy vehicle lane with a diamond marking and double solid white lines beside it", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "place" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21655.8", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21655.8" }, "uid": "c7z1sy1g56r4" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-curve-obstructed-view", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "passing" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver on a two-lane highway nears a curve where the view ahead is obstructed. What does the Vehicle Code do about passing on the left there?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It bars the pass only when oncoming traffic is in sight", "short": "Barred only if cars are in sight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It allows the pass if the driver signals first", "short": "Allowed if the driver signals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It bars the pass while the view is obstructed", "short": "Barred while view is obstructed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It allows the pass if the vehicle ahead is slower", "short": "Allowed if the car ahead is slow" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "California bars passing on the left on a crest or curve where the view is obstructed. Signaling, a slower vehicle ahead, or no oncoming traffic in sight does not lift the bar while the view stays obstructed.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21752", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21752" }, "uid": "1aaohnceani0c" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-passing-right-barred", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "passing" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which way of passing on the right does the California Vehicle Code bar?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Passing on the right of a vehicle turning left", "short": "Passing a vehicle turning left" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passing on the right off the paved portion", "short": "Passing off the paved portion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passing on the right on a multi-lane road", "short": "Passing on a multi-lane road" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passing on the right on a one-way road", "short": "Passing on a one-way road" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Vehicle Code allows passing on the right when the vehicle ahead is turning left and on multi-lane and one-way roads, but bars passing on the right by driving off the paved portion of the road.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21755", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21755" }, "uid": "1tewix11qthptv" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-q-hov-double-lines-crossing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hov-lanes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Double parallel solid lines lie to the right of a California high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. When may a driver cross them to leave the lane?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Whenever the driver is leaving at an exit", "short": "Whenever leaving at an exit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only after the driver has signaled first", "short": "Only after signaling first" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Whenever traffic in the lane ahead is slow", "short": "Whenever the lane ahead is slow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only for an approaching emergency vehicle", "short": "Only for an emergency vehicle" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "No driver may cross double parallel solid lines to the right of an HOV lane to enter or exit it, except when leaving the lane for an approaching emergency vehicle displaying a red light or siren. Signaling or slow traffic does not change that.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21655.8", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21655.8" }, "uid": "fc3aayihax4e" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-c-slow-vehicle-lane", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles", "lanes" ], "template": "A California vehicle moving slower than the normal speed of traffic keeps to the ___ lane, except when overtaking and passing or preparing for a left turn.", "answer": "right-hand", "distractors": [ "left-hand", "center", "fast" ], "explanation": "A vehicle moving slower than the normal speed of traffic keeps to the right-hand lane or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing or preparing for a left turn.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21654", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21654" }, "uid": "1le4sam145tkg4" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-parking-and-signal-distances", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "parking", "crosswalks", "turn-signals" ], "title": "California Parking and Signal Distances", "body": "California bars parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, with exceptions, and within 3 feet of a signed or red-painted sidewalk access ramp. From 1 January 2024, it also bars stopping or parking within 20 feet of the **approach side** of a marked or unmarked crosswalk (15 feet with a curb extension), except to avoid traffic conflict or as an officer or traffic control device directs; a local authority may mark another distance. A driver must signal continuously for the last 100 feet before turning, and may use a center left-turn lane for no more than 200 feet to prepare for and make a turn.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a street curb with a sidewalk access ramp, a fire hydrant and a crosswalk, with simple distance bars showing the 3 foot, 15 foot and 20 foot parking limits from each. No vehicles with readable plates, no people.", "imageSearchTerm": "curb parking distances diagram fire hydrant crosswalk curb ramp", "alt": "Curb with no-parking stretches at a ramp (3 ft), hydrant (15 ft), crosswalk (20 ft), plus 100 ft signal and 200 ft turn-lane panels.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-parking-and-signal-distances.1d8e63f5.svg" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 22500, 22514, 22522, 22108 and 21460.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22500" }, "uid": "1nhfyn1eh8ovj" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-low-beams-and-headlamps", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "headlights", "night-driving" ], "title": "California Low Beams and Headlamps", "body": "In darkness, California requires low beams within 300 feet behind another vehicle and within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle. **Darkness** is the period from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise, and any time sight is under 1,000 feet. A motor vehicle other than a motorcycle must have at least two lighted headlamps in inclement weather, a weather condition that prevents seeing a person or vehicle from 1,000 feet or requires continuous use of the windshield wipers. The handbook names clouds, dust, smoke or fog that prevent seeing other vehicles as times to use headlights.", "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 24409", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24409" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down night-road diagram: a car with low-beam cones, a bracket of 500 feet to an oncoming car in the other lane and a bracket of 300 feet to a car ahead in its own lane, with a crossed-out high-beam cone. Brackets drawn in a 500 to 300 ratio. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "low beams 500 feet oncoming 300 feet behind diagram", "alt": "Night road: a car with low beams, a 500-foot bracket to an oncoming car, a 300-foot bracket to a car ahead, a crossed-out high-beam cone.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-low-beams-and-headlamps.88dcc61d.svg" }, "uid": "1vowlxq19vsyoc" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-f-curb-colors", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "curb-colors", "parking" ], "title": "California Curb Colors", "body": "Under California's Vehicle Code, local authorities may mark curbs in **curb colors**. A red curb means no stopping, standing or parking, though a bus may stop in a bus-marked zone. A yellow curb is for loading or unloading passengers or freight, and a white curb is for loading or unloading passengers or depositing mail. A green curb means time-limited parking, and a blue curb is for parking for disabled persons and disabled veterans.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of five short curb segments side by side painted red, yellow, white, green and blue, each with a short label for its meaning (no stopping, loading, passengers or mail, time limit, disabled parking). No vehicles, no people.", "imageSearchTerm": "curb colors red yellow white green blue meaning diagram", "alt": "Five curb blocks painted red, yellow, white, green and blue, each beside its meaning, from no stopping to disabled parking.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca3-f-curb-colors.206425f2.svg" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21458", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21458" }, "uid": "141v42s17o1q16" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-ramp-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "California bars parking within how many feet of a signed or red-painted sidewalk ramp?" }, "value": 3, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22522", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22522" }, "uid": "ofh76q14mujw6" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-hydrant-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "California bars parking within how many feet of a fire hydrant, with exceptions?" }, "value": 15, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22514", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22514" }, "uid": "s6mpcd477e3r" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-crosswalk-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking", "crosswalks" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "With exceptions, California bars stopping within how many feet of a crosswalk approach?" }, "value": 20, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22500", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22500" }, "uid": "1k7t7wi1ys9xni" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-turn-signal-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "turn-signals" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "California requires a turn signal during the last how many feet traveled before turning?" }, "value": 100, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22108", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22108" }, "uid": "1ueg6deoqruwe" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-low-beam-behind-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "headlights", "night-driving" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In darkness, California requires low beams within how many feet behind another vehicle?" }, "value": 300, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 24409", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24409" }, "uid": "atfcxl1p7jpmv" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-n-low-beam-oncoming-feet", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "headlights", "night-driving" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In darkness, California requires low beams within how many feet of an oncoming vehicle?" }, "value": 500, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 24409", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24409" }, "uid": "1iu5l7qce8f8" }, { "id": "dp-ca3-p-white-curb", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "curb-colors", "parking" ], "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "California white curb" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Loading or unloading passengers, or depositing mail" }, "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21458", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21458" }, "uid": "1xwve3wxvj59g" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-handheld-ban-mounting", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23123.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23123.5" }, "title": "Handheld ban and mounted devices", "body": "California's **handheld device ban** bars a driver from holding and operating a handheld phone or electronic wireless communications device unless it is designed for voice-operated, hands-free use and is used that way. A driver may touch a wireless device only if it is mounted on the windshield in the manner permitted for a portable GPS, or on the dashboard or center console without hindering the driver's view, and then only with a single swipe or tap. Drivers and bicyclists in California may not wear a headset or earplugs in both ears.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a smartphone held in a mount on a car's dashboard or lower windshield, seen from inside the car, with no hand touching it, no driver in frame, and the screen dark or blank so that no text, app or brand is readable.", "imageSearchTerm": "phone mount on car dashboard", "alt": "A smartphone held in a mount on a car's dashboard, with no hand touching it", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Alicia Christin Gerald ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/smartphone-with-navigation-app-mounted-in-car-xdEeISgxyBI", "subject": "A smartphone showing a map app, held in a vent mount on a car's dark dashboard beside the radio controls, with a charging cable plugged in and no hand on it.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca4-f-handheld-ban-mounting.5634868e.webp" }, "uid": "19zyokc1s3p96k" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-phone-ban-under-18", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23124", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23124" }, "title": "Phone ban for drivers under 18", "body": "California's **phone ban for drivers under 18** goes further than the handheld ban, which allows hands-free use. A driver under 18 may not use a wireless phone or device at all, including a hands-free one, except for emergency purposes, such as an emergency call. The handbook words the under-18 rule more narrowly, as answering calls and sending or responding to texts. For a ringing phone, California's handbook says not to answer, to let the call go to voicemail and, if a driver must return or make a call, to pull safely off the road.", "uid": "yx7glz1f6hm9h" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-windshield-objects-view", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "distraction" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 26708", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=26708" }, "title": "Windshield objects and the driver's view", "body": "California bars **objects on the windshield and windows**, with exceptions such as a seven-inch square at the lower windshield corner farthest from the driver and a five-inch square at the lower corner nearest the driver. Vehicle Code section 26708 allows a five-inch square at the top center for a toll or CHP device, and bars driving when snow or ice blocks clear vision through the windshield or the side or rear windows. A driver may not drive so loaded, or with so many people in the front seat, that the view to the front or sides is obstructed or control of the vehicle is interfered with.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat front-view diagram of a windshield seen from the driver's seat, most of the glass shaded as barred, with three green squares marked as allowed: a 7-inch square in the lower corner farthest from the driver, a 5-inch square in the lower corner nearest the driver, and a 5-inch square at the top center for a toll or CHP device.", "imageSearchTerm": "windshield allowed placement squares diagram", "alt": "Windshield from the driver's seat, barred except green squares: 7 in lower far corner, 5 in lower near corner, 5 in top center.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca4-f-windshield-objects-view.a98f849b.svg" }, "uid": "16phm581uivpes" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-cmp-adult-or-minor-phone", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23124", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23124" }, "prompt": "Which describes California's phone rule for a driver under 18, rather than the handheld ban?", "correct": { "caption": "No wireless phone or device at all, hands-free included, except for emergency purposes" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "No holding and operating a handheld phone; voice-operated hands-free use is allowed" }, "explanation": "The handheld ban allows voice-operated hands-free use, but the under-18 ban covers hands-free devices too. A driver under 18 may use a phone or device only for emergency purposes, such as an emergency call.", "uid": "1gsu8v668td54" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-corner-square-size", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "distraction" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 26708", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=26708" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Under Vehicle Code section 26708, what is the size of the square allowed for signs and stickers at the lower corner of a California windshield nearest the driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A seven-inch square" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A five-inch square" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A three-inch square" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A ten-inch square" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Section 26708 allows a five-inch square at the lower corner nearest the driver and a seven-inch square at the corner farthest from the driver. The handbook places the five-inch square on the driver's side window.", "uid": "1pzmpxozyg4qk" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-ringing-phone", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 70", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=70#page=76" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which response to a ringing cell phone does California's driver handbook give for a driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "To pick up if the call is urgent" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To hold it to the ear for a short call", "short": "To hold it to the ear briefly" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To reply by text message" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To let the call go to voicemail" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "California's handbook says to let a ringing cell phone go to voicemail rather than answer it, so picking up an urgent call, holding it to the ear or replying by text is not the advice. If a driver must return or make a call, the handbook says to pull safely off the road.", "uid": "f85e4e10czcbg" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-tf-mounted-device-swipe", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23123.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23123.5" }, "statement": "In California, a driver may touch a wireless device mounted on the dashboard or center console only with a single swipe or tap, and only if the mount does not hinder the driver's view.", "isTrue": true, "why": "A mounted device may be touched only with a single swipe or tap. A device on the dashboard or center console must not hinder the driver's view, and one on the windshield must be mounted as a portable GPS may be.", "uid": "ty1nvdujh06p" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-c-voice-operated-use", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "phones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23123.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23123.5" }, "template": "In California, a driver may not hold and operate a handheld phone unless it is designed for voice-operated, ___ use and is used that way.", "answer": "hands-free", "distractors": [ "one-handed", "single-tap", "low-volume" ], "explanation": "The handheld ban allows a handheld phone only if it is designed for voice-operated, hands-free use and is used that way. One-handed or single-tap operation is still holding and operating the device, which the ban bars.", "uid": "x28cyuxwnmic" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-belts-child-restraints", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "child-restraints", "seat-belts" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 27360", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=27360" }, "title": "Safety belts and child restraints", "body": "In California, a driver and all passengers 16 or older must properly wear a safety belt. A child under 8 must be properly secured in a rear seat in an appropriate **child passenger restraint system**, except as Vehicle Code section 27363 provides; for example, one who is 4 feet 9 inches or taller may use a safety belt (restated by Assembly Bill 435 from 1 January 2027). The driver is exempt if the child's parent or legal guardian is a passenger. A child under 2 rides rear-facing unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more inches tall, subject to the exceptions in section 27363.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of an empty rear-facing infant car seat installed on the back seat of a car, with no child or other person in the frame, soft natural light", "imageSearchTerm": "child car seat", "alt": "Empty rear-facing infant car seat installed on the back seat of a car", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "uid": "1w7d46w121xm9o" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-airbag-heat-smoking", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "child-restraints", "animals" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Health and Safety Code section 118948", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=118948" }, "title": "Airbag distance, heat and smoking", "body": "California's handbook asks drivers, when they can still keep full control of the vehicle, to sit with the breastbone at least 10 inches from the center of the steering wheel's airbag cover. Leaving children or animals in a hot vehicle is dangerous and illegal in California, the handbook says, and Penal Code section 597.7 bars leaving or confining an animal in an unattended vehicle where heat, cold, poor ventilation or lack of food or water endangers it. It is also unlawful in California to **smoke a tobacco product** in a motor vehicle, whether moving or parked, when a minor is in it.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat side-view diagram of a simple seated driver figure facing a steering wheel, with a double-headed arrow from the breastbone to the center of the airbag cover marked at least 10 inches. 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Flashing red lights mean stop from either direction, so children can cross safely, unless the bus is on the other roadway of a divided or **multiple-lane highway** (two or more lanes in each direction). A driver meeting or overtaking a stopped school bus with a flashing red light signal and stop signal arm must stop immediately before passing it, and may not proceed until the flashing red light and the stop signal arm, if equipped, cease operation.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a yellow school bus stopped at the roadside with its red stop signal arm extended and red lights lit, with no children or identifiable people in the frame", "imageSearchTerm": "school bus stop arm extended red lights", "alt": "Yellow school bus stopped with its red stop signal arm extended", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Pexels ยท Bruce Squiers ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/getting-to-the-bus-on-time-27500710/", "subject": "A yellow school bus stopped on a snowy two-lane road facing the camera, its roof red lamps and side STOP arm lit, door open, with a child carrying a backpack stepping toward the door.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca4-f-school-bus-lights-stops.00db22d6.webp" }, "uid": "bvt39zmds65p" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-cmp-child-car-or-bus", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "child-restraints", "school-buses" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 27360", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=27360" }, "prompt": "Which describes what California requires for a child under 8 in a car, rather than for a driver meeting a school bus with flashing red lights?", "correct": { "caption": "Riding in a rear seat in a child passenger restraint system, except as Vehicle Code section 27363 provides" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Stopping immediately before passing the bus, except on the other roadway of a divided or multiple-lane highway" }, "explanation": "A child under 8 must be properly secured in a rear seat in an appropriate child passenger restraint system, except as Vehicle Code section 27363 provides, and the driver is exempt if the child's parent or legal guardian is a passenger. Stopping before passing is the school bus rule.", "uid": "dsh3jnbivmap" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-bus-stay-stopped", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22454", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22454" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver has stopped for a school bus loading children with a flashing red light and stop signal arm. When may the driver proceed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "When the red light and stop arm cease operation", "short": "When the red light and arm cease" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When traffic in the other direction starts moving", "short": "When opposing traffic moves on" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the bus driver waves the driver on", "short": "When the bus driver waves on" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the driver has waited for a few seconds", "short": "After waiting for a few seconds" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A driver who must stop may not proceed until the flashing red light and the stop signal arm, if equipped, cease operation. The bus driver's wave, a wait of a few seconds, or other traffic moving does not end the stop.", "uid": "e5ptfgn9tgtu" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-child-under-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "child-restraints" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 27360", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=27360" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, how must a child under 2 ride unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more inches tall?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Facing the front of the vehicle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Seated in a booster seat" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Facing the rear of the vehicle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Seated in a regular safety belt" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A child under 2 rides rear-facing unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more inches tall, subject to the exceptions in Vehicle Code section 27363. A forward-facing position does not meet the rule for a child below both limits.", "uid": "wqyq0g127n2ei" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-c-multiple-lane-highway", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 22454", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=22454" }, "template": "For California's school bus stop rule, a highway counts as a multiple-lane highway with as few as ___ lanes in each direction.", "answer": "two", "distractors": [ "one", "three", "four" ], "explanation": "For the school bus stop rule, a multiple-lane highway is any highway with two or more lanes in each direction, so two is the minimum. A driver need not stop for a bus on the other roadway of such a highway or of a divided highway.", "uid": "1tshr11qi589n" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-tf-smoking-with-minor", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "child-restraints" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Health and Safety Code section 118948", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=118948" }, "statement": "In California, smoking a tobacco product in a motor vehicle with a minor aboard is unlawful only while the vehicle is moving.", "isTrue": false, "why": "It is unlawful in California to smoke a tobacco product in a motor vehicle, whether moving or parked, when a minor is in it.", "uid": "fp4ii571qds9" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-move-over-three-feet", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "move-over", "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 21809 and 21760", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21809" }, "title": "Moving over and passing a bicycle", "body": "California's **move-over duty**: a driver approaching a stationary emergency vehicle with emergency lights must use due caution and, before passing in the lane next to it and absent other direction by a peace officer, change to a non-adjacent lane if practicable and lawful, unless the vehicle is not adjacent to the highway or is separated from it by a protective physical barrier. If that is unsafe or impracticable, slow to a reasonable and prudent speed. Passing a bicycle going the same way takes at least three feet; if impossible, slow likewise and pass only when safe for the rider.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a tow truck with flashing amber lights stopped on the shoulder of a divided highway, with other traffic passing in the far lanes and no identifiable people", "imageSearchTerm": "police car flashing lights shoulder", "alt": "A police car stopped on a highway shoulder with its emergency lights flashing", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene" }, "uid": "9qlvwije39es" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-bicyclist-rights-helmet", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21200", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21200" }, "title": "Bicyclist rights, direction and helmets", "body": "A bicyclist in California has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those that by their very nature can have no application. Bicyclists must go the same way as traffic on a roadway or shoulder. A motor vehicle may use a **bicycle lane** only to park where permitted, to enter or leave the road, or to prepare for a turn within 200 feet of the intersection. California requires a person under 18 to wear a properly fitted and fastened helmet when operating a bicycle, a nonmotorized scooter or a skateboard.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a city street with a marked bicycle lane and a painted bicycle symbol beside a traffic lane, with no identifiable people and no readable registration plates", "imageSearchTerm": "bike lane", "alt": "Marked bicycle lane with a painted bicycle symbol beside a traffic lane", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "place" }, "uid": "1ol77ren1yt54" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-night-lights-lane-splitting", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "bicycles", "motorcycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21201", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21201" }, "title": "Bicycle night lights and lane splitting", "body": "At night a California bicycle needs a front lamp with a white light visible from 300 feet in front and from the sides. It also needs a red reflector, or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector, on the rear, visible from 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of the lawful upper beams of a motor vehicle's headlamps. California's handbook says that sharing lanes with motorcycles, which it calls **lane splitting**, is legal.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a bicycle at dusk with a lit white front light and a red rear reflector, with no rider and no identifiable people in the frame", "imageSearchTerm": "bicycle white front light red rear reflector night", "alt": "Cyclist riding at night with a lit white front light and a lit red rear light on the bike", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Dima Pechurin ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-man-riding-a-bike-down-a-street-at-night-nDRZXXO2JS8", "subject": "A rider seen from behind, motion-blurred on a dark country road at night, with a bright white front lamp lighting the pavement and a glowing red rear light and red fender at the back.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca4-f-night-lights-lane-splitting.7bb2ca54.webp" }, "uid": "f9q0wb6qlo75" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-move-over-lane", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "move-over" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21809", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21809" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Before passing in the lane next to a stationary emergency vehicle with emergency lights, what must a California driver do if a lane change is practicable and lawful, absent an officer's direction?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Change to a lane not next to it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Move into the lane next to it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Keep the same lane and speed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speed up to pass quickly" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The duty is a change to a lane not adjacent to the stationary vehicle, with due regard for safety and traffic conditions, if practicable and not prohibited by law. It does not apply if the stationary vehicle is not adjacent to the highway or is separated from it by a protective physical barrier.", "uid": "uabnxqivjph8" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-slow-when-space-short", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "move-over", "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21760", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21760" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver finds a lane change unsafe near a stationary emergency vehicle with emergency lights, or cannot keep three feet from a bicycle. What must the driver do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Keep the same speed and pass closely", "short": "Keep speed and pass closely" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speed up to get past the hazard quickly", "short": "Speed up to get past quickly" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sound the horn and drive on" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slow to a reasonable and prudent speed", "short": "Slow down to a prudent speed" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Both rules share one fallback: when a lane change is unsafe or impracticable, or three feet cannot be kept, the driver slows to a reasonable and prudent speed, so holding or raising speed does not meet it. A bicycle is passed only when that would not endanger the bicyclist.", "uid": "bo39zqy6pfto" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-bicycle-front-light", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bicycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21201", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21201" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At night, a California bicycle needs a front lamp with a white light visible from how far in front and from the sides?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "200 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "300 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "500 feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "100 feet" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A California bicycle's white front light must be visible from 300 feet in front and from the sides at night. The red rear reflector or light is the one that must be visible from 500 feet to the rear.", "uid": "23mnb81g6d282" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-c-lane-splitting", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "motorcycles" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 44", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=44#page=50" }, "template": "California's handbook says that sharing lanes with motorcycles is legal, and calls the practice lane ___.", "answer": "splitting", "distractors": [ "merging", "weaving", "changing" ], "explanation": "California's handbook calls the sharing of lanes with motorcycles lane splitting and says it is legal.", "uid": "1qou4ykot6gl4" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-d-low-speed-vehicle", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 385.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=385.5" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Low-speed vehicle" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, a four-wheeled vehicle that can reach more than 20 and not more than 25 mph in one mile, with a gross vehicle weight rating under 3,000 pounds" }, "uid": "19tcud91gyyy5t" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-loads-reach-lights-flags", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "loads" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 24604, 35111, 23111 and 23114", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24604" }, "title": "Loads that spill, reach or trail", "body": "California bars throwing a lit or unlit cigarette, cigar, match or other flaming or glowing substance from a vehicle, or carrying a load that can drop, blow or spill out. A passenger vehicle's load may not extend past the fender line on the left or more than six inches beyond the fenders on the right. A **rear load** extending four feet or more beyond the taillamps needs two red lights at its extreme end, visible from at least 500 feet in darkness, and by day a solid red or fluorescent orange flag or cloth at least 18 inches square, one if the load is two feet wide or less and two if wider.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a long load extending past the rear of a flatbed truck with a red warning flag tied to its end, with no readable registration plates and no identifiable people", "imageSearchTerm": "red flag load truck", "alt": "Red warning flag tied to the end of a long load extending past the rear of a truck", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "uid": "z4n19c5rbkru" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-pickup-bed-riders-animals", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "loads", "animals" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23116", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23116" }, "title": "Riders and animals in a pickup bed", "body": "On a California highway, no person may ride in the back of a pickup or flatbed unless secured by a restraint system that meets the federal standards, with narrow exceptions for farm and ranch trucks on the owner's lands, emergency response by a public agency and supervised parades at 8 mph or less. On a highway, an **animal in the back of a pickup** must be in an enclosed space, behind side and tail racks at least 46 inches high, cross tethered or in a secured container or cage, or protected by installed means of preventing its discharge; livestock and certain ranch and farm dogs are exempt.", "uid": "1idiw1pv2k4yp" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-f-low-speed-double-fine", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles", "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21260", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21260" }, "title": "Low-speed roads and double fine zones", "body": "A low-speed vehicle in California reaches a maximum of 25 mph and is restricted from roads where the speed limit is greater than 35 mph, except in an area with an adopted neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan or at the limited crossings the Vehicle Code allows. A designated **Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone** doubles the fine, or raises an infraction one category, for violations of the passing and speed chapters and for reckless driving, speed contest, drunk-driving and open-container offenses, but only when signs have been placed.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a small four-wheeled neighborhood electric low-speed vehicle parked beside a residential street, with no identifiable people and no readable registration plates", "imageSearchTerm": "neighborhood electric vehicle", "alt": "Small four-wheeled low-speed electric vehicle parked beside a residential street", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "uid": "1l5rmpibmwzhi" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-rear-load-flag", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "loads" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 24604", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24604" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "By day, a California load that extends four feet or more beyond the rear needs a solid red or fluorescent orange flag or cloth. What is the minimum length of each side of the square?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "24 inches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "30 inches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "18 inches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "10 inches" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Vehicle Code section 24604 requires a flag or cloth not less than 18 inches square, so 10 inches falls short of that minimum. The handbook words the flag as 12 inches.", "uid": "rc546x1yid8z7" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-q-low-speed-road-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 21260", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21260" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Except in an area with an adopted neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan, a California low-speed vehicle is restricted from roads with a speed limit greater than what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "45 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "35 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "55 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "25 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A low-speed vehicle is restricted from roads where the speed limit is greater than 35 mph, though the Vehicle Code allows limited crossings of faster roads. Its own maximum speed is 25 mph, which is a different figure.", "uid": "mzckjia5p01" }, { "id": "dp-ca4-tf-double-fine-signs", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "work-zones" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 42010", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=42010" }, "statement": "In California, a designated Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone doubles the fine, or raises an infraction one category, for passing, speed and certain other listed offenses, but only when signs have been placed.", "isTrue": true, "why": "Vehicle Code section 42010 doubles the fine, or raises an infraction one category, for the listed offenses in a designated zone, but only when signs have been placed. The handbook adds highway construction or maintenance zones when workers are present.", "uid": "1ajfxex1ftb5ub" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-dui-and-the-adult-limit", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "dui", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23152", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23152" }, "title": "DUI and California's adult limit", "body": "In California, **driving under the influence (DUI)** of any alcoholic beverage, any drug, or both together is unlawful. Alcohol, marijuana and other drugs can impair the ability to drive because they slow coordination, judgment and reaction times. California's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for adult drivers is 0.08 percent, and the Vehicle Code applies it to any driver. The limit is a legal line, never a safe amount of alcohol.", "uid": "114hzib1m9cxo5" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-limits-under-21-and-probation", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "dui", "underage-drinking" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23136", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23136" }, "title": "Limits for under 21 and DUI probation", "body": "California's blood alcohol limit is 0.08 percent for an adult driver but 0.01 percent for a driver under 21, and a driver of any age on DUI probation also has a limit of 0.01 percent. For a driver under 21, the Vehicle Code makes a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent or more a separate offense. A peace officer who lawfully detains a driver under 21 and has reasonable cause to believe the 0.01 percent limit is violated shall request a **preliminary alcohol screening (PAS)** test if a device is immediately available.", "uid": "a92x8o94eq6" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-under-21-carrying-alcohol", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "underage-drinking", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23224", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23224" }, "title": "Under 21 carrying alcohol", "body": "A California driver under 21 may not knowingly drive a vehicle **carrying alcohol** unless accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, responsible adult relative or adult designated by a parent or guardian, or working for a licensee under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act during regular hours and in the course of the employment. A passenger under 21 may not knowingly possess or control alcohol, with the same exceptions. A vehicle registered to a driver under 21 caught carrying alcohol may be impounded at the owner's expense for one to 30 days for each violation; a conviction is a misdemeanor.", "uid": "5swims1uxrhqo" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-cmp-under-21-or-adult-limit", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "dui", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23136", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23136" }, "prompt": "Which describes California's blood alcohol limit for a driver under 21, rather than for an adult driver?", "correct": { "caption": "A limit of 0.01 percent" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "A limit of 0.08 percent" }, "explanation": "The Vehicle Code sets 0.01 percent for a driver under 21 and 0.08 percent for an adult driver. The 0.08 percent limit is the adult one, although the code applies it to any driver.", "uid": "1sphl3ix4m7x" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-dui-probation-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "dui", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23154", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23154" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver of any age is on DUI probation. What is that driver's blood alcohol limit?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "0.05 percent" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "0.08 percent" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "0.01 percent" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "0.04 percent" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A driver of any age who is on DUI probation has a limit of 0.01 percent, which is lower than the 0.08 percent adult limit.", "uid": "je48nt1vn5g7r" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-under-21-impound-period", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "underage-drinking", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23224", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23224" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver under 21 is caught carrying alcohol in a vehicle registered to that driver. What range of days does the Vehicle Code set for impounding the vehicle for each violation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "One to 10 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One to 90 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One to 15 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One to 30 days" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Vehicle Code sets one to 30 days for each violation, at the owner's expense, so a range ending at 10, 15 or 90 days is not the range it sets. A conviction is a misdemeanor.", "uid": "snhymj1ypr4s3" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-tf-under-21-separate-offense", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "underage-drinking", "dui" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23140", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23140" }, "statement": "For a California driver under 21, the Vehicle Code makes a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent or more a separate offense.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Vehicle Code makes a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent or more a separate offense for a driver under 21.", "uid": "6k12xagolrp2" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-consent-suspension-and-grounds", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "chemical-tests", "dui" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 23612 and 13353.2", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=13353.2" }, "title": "Consent to testing and the DMV suspension", "body": "A driver is deemed to have consented to chemical testing of blood or breath on a lawful DUI arrest, and of blood, or urine if blood is unavailable, for drugs. Under the **Administrative Per Se** law, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) must immediately suspend the driving privilege after a DUI arrest on the grounds in the Vehicle Code. The grounds are a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more, 0.01 percent or more for a person under 21 on a PAS or other chemical test, 0.04 percent or more for a commercial-vehicle driver, and 0.01 percent or more for a driver on DUI probation.", "uid": "qwy7f84qfjre" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-opened-containers-in-a-vehicle", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "open-containers", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code sections 23225 and 23222", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23225" }, "title": "Opened containers in a California vehicle", "body": "On a highway, an **opened alcohol container** must be kept in the trunk or, if there is none, in an area the driver and passengers do not normally occupy; a glove or utility compartment counts as part of the area they occupy. That rule does not cover a housecar's or camper's living quarters, and an off-highway vehicle subject to identification with no trunk needs a locked container. A driver with an opened or unsealed cannabis container, or loose cannabis flower, commits an infraction unless it is in the trunk; a qualified medical patient may carry it if it is sealed, resealed or closed.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat side cut-away diagram of a sedan facing right: the trunk shaded green with a check and the passenger compartment, glove compartment included, shaded red with an X, with a generic unlabeled bottle icon. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "open container trunk glove compartment car diagram", "alt": "Car cut-away: opened alcohol container OK in the trunk; not allowed where the driver and passengers sit, glove or utility compartment included.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca5-f-opened-containers-in-a-vehicle.0fb6cd6d.svg" }, "uid": "12s20c31na1tk1" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-temporary-license-jail-bicycles", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "dui", "chemical-tests" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 74", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=74#page=80" }, "title": "Temporary license, jail and bicycle DUI", "body": "California's handbook says that after a DUI arrest the officer may take the driver's license and give a **temporary license** for 30 days. A first DUI conviction in California can bring up to six months in jail, with a code minimum of 96 hours. Riding a bicycle on a California highway while under the influence of alcohol or a drug is unlawful, and a person aged 13 to 20 who is convicted has the driving privilege suspended for one year or, if not yet licensed, delayed for one year after becoming eligible.", "uid": "1wchogf419k8" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-cannabis-container-location", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "open-containers", "drugs" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23222", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23222" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Under the Vehicle Code, a California driver with an opened cannabis container commits an infraction unless the container is kept where?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "In the trunk of the vehicle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "In the glove compartment" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Under the front passenger seat" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "In the front center console" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "An opened or unsealed cannabis container, or loose flower not in a container, is an infraction unless it is in the trunk, so the other places listed do not qualify. A qualified medical patient may carry it if it is sealed, resealed or closed.", "uid": "1nvkc8u1imu9ae" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-who-suspends-after-dui-arrest", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "dui", "chemical-tests" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 13353.2", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=13353.2" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver is arrested for DUI after driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more. Who must immediately suspend the driving privilege?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The county sheriff's office" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Department of Motor Vehicles" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The court that hears the DUI case", "short": "The court hearing the DUI case" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The California Highway Patrol" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Administrative Per Se law is the DMV's own suspension after a DUI arrest, and the code says the department shall immediately suspend the driving privilege. It names the DMV, not a court or an arresting agency.", "uid": "1494oex1d6cpgv" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-c-temporary-license-length", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "dui", "chemical-tests" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 74", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=74#page=80" }, "template": "California's handbook says the officer may take the driver's license after a DUI arrest and give a temporary license for ___.", "answer": "30 days", "distractors": [ "10 days", "15 days", "90 days" ], "explanation": "The handbook gives 30 days. For a driver under 21 who refuses to take or fails to complete the PAS test, or whose test shows 0.01 percent or more, the Vehicle Code makes it valid for 30 days from issuance or until the DMV's order of suspension is received, whichever comes first.", "uid": "135n7zahhraay" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-tf-glove-compartment-container", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "open-containers", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 23225", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=23225" }, "statement": "On a California highway, a driver may keep an opened alcohol container in the glove compartment, because a glove compartment is outside the area the driver and passengers occupy.", "isTrue": false, "why": "A glove compartment, like a utility compartment, counts as part of the area the driver and passengers occupy, so an opened alcohol container may not be kept in it. It must go in the trunk or, if the vehicle has no trunk, in an area they do not normally occupy.", "uid": "11payea1v6zylg" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-minimum-liability-limits", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16056", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16056" }, "title": "California's minimum liability limits", "body": "For policies issued or renewed on or after 1 January 2025, California's **minimum liability insurance limits** are $30,000 for one person's injury or death, $60,000 for injury to or death of more than one person, and $15,000 for property damage. California drivers and owners must carry evidence of financial responsibility in the vehicle and show it on an officer's demand. In California, a driver in a collision who has no proper insurance coverage faces suspension of the driving privilege no matter who was at fault, unless coverage at the time of the accident is shown.", "uid": "wohl2ajywxmw" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-duties-at-the-scene", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 20001", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=20001" }, "title": "Duties at the scene of a crash", "body": "After a crash that injures anyone other than the driver, or kills anyone, a California driver must **stop immediately** at the scene. After a crash with injury or death, the driver gives name, current address and vehicle registration number to those involved and to any officer at the scene, renders reasonable help, and on request shows a driver's license if available. After a crash with property damage only, the driver stops at the nearest spot that will not impede traffic and then either finds the owner or leaves a written note and notifies police or the California Highway Patrol (CHP).", "uid": "1g5wawedy30iq" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-exchanging-information-and-steps", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties", "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16025", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16025" }, "title": "Exchanging information after a crash", "body": "Every driver involved in a California accident must, unless incapable, exchange name and current address, license number, vehicle identification number, the registered owner's current address, and **evidence of financial responsibility** with the other driver or property owner at the scene. California's handbook lists these steps after a crash, in no required order: stopping at the scene; calling 911 at once if anyone is hurt; moving the vehicle out of traffic and then calling 911 if no one is hurt; exchanging information; and making the required reports.", "uid": "ew3r6adda1t4" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-one-person-minimum", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16056", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16056" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver renews a liability policy on or after 1 January 2025. What is the minimum limit for one person's injury or death?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "$30,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$15,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$60,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$5,000" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "For policies issued or renewed on or after 1 January 2025, the minimum for one person's injury or death is $30,000. The other two limits cover more than one person and property damage, and have their own figures.", "uid": "o4aynq12h8klk" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-stop-after-injury-crash", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 20001", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=20001" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver's crash injures another person. Which action does the Vehicle Code require of the driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop at the nearest safe spot" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Go to the nearest police station" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop immediately at the scene" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop at the next safe exit" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "After a crash that injures anyone other than the driver, or kills anyone, a California driver must stop immediately at the scene. Stopping at the nearest spot that will not impede traffic is the rule for a crash with property damage only.", "uid": "19d63ud1yilqrt" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-no-one-hurt-step", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 77", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=77#page=83" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "No one is hurt in a California crash. Which step does the handbook list for the driver?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Leave the vehicle in place and then call 911", "short": "Stay put, then call 911" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Move the vehicle out of traffic and then call 911", "short": "Out of traffic, then call 911" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Exchange information and skip the call to 911", "short": "Exchange information, skip 911" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Call 911 at once and leave the vehicle in the road", "short": "Call 911 at once, leave the car" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "California's handbook lists moving the vehicle out of traffic and then calling 911 when no one is hurt, and calling 911 at once when anyone is hurt. It lists no step of leaving the vehicle in place or skipping the call.", "uid": "1i1twmguzt6uo" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-c-more-than-one-person-minimum", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16056", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16056" }, "template": "For policies issued or renewed on or after 1 January 2025, California's minimum liability limit for injury to or death of more than one person is ___.", "answer": "$60,000", "distractors": [ "$30,000", "$15,000", "$5,000" ], "explanation": "For policies issued or renewed on or after 1 January 2025, the minimum for injury to or death of more than one person is $60,000. The limits for one person and for property damage have their own figures.", "uid": "hi94oc99iq2u" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-tf-uninsured-collision-suspension", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "insurance", "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16070", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16070" }, "statement": "A California driver in a collision who has no proper insurance coverage faces suspension of the driving privilege no matter who was at fault, unless coverage at the time of the accident is shown.", "isTrue": true, "why": "Under the Vehicle Code, the privilege is suspended 30 days after the DMV mails notice, unless coverage at the time of the accident is shown. Who was at fault does not matter.", "uid": "bbvw6k1onb7ku" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-crash-reports", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16000", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16000" }, "title": "Crash reports to police and the DMV", "body": "A crash with injury or death in California requires a written report to the CHP or city police within 24 hours. Every driver involved in a crash must also report it to the DMV within 10 days, on **form SR 1**, if it caused damage over $1,000 to one person's property or any injury or death, whoever caused the crash. The DMV report can be made personally or through an insurance agent, broker or legal representative, and the rule also covers a reportable off-highway accident, but not damage only to the driver's or owner's own property.", "uid": "6r14yq1oaan80" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-at-a-police-stop", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "police-stops" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 29", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=29#page=35" }, "title": "At a police stop in California", "body": "The handbook lists six actions for a calm, safe **police stop**, in no required order: signaling right, moving completely onto the right shoulder, turning off the radio, staying inside unless told to get out, rolling down the window before the officer makes contact, and keeping the driver's and all passengers' hands in clear view. Since 1 January 2024, a peace officer must state the reason for a stop before questioning related to a criminal investigation or traffic violation, unless the officer reasonably believes withholding it is necessary to protect life or property from imminent threat.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a two-lane road with a right shoulder: a car stopped completely on the shoulder with its right signal flashing and a patrol car behind it, with six short unnumbered callouts around the car for the handbook's six actions.", "imageSearchTerm": "police traffic stop pull onto right shoulder signal right diagram", "alt": "A car stopped fully on the right shoulder, right signal on, a patrol car behind, beside the handbook's six actions in no required order.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca5-f-at-a-police-stop.407470df.svg" }, "uid": "99xz47bxe6y9" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-f-orders-documents-and-evading", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "police-stops", "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 2800.1", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=2800.1" }, "title": "Orders, documents and evading an officer", "body": "A California driver must obey a lawful order or signal of a uniformed officer and, when stopped, produce a license, proof of insurance and registration. A driver who flees a pursuing peace officer's marked vehicle, which has a lighted red lamp and siren, with the intent to evade commits a **misdemeanor** punishable by up to one year in county jail. When evading causes serious bodily injury, the penalty is state prison for three, five or seven years, county jail for up to one year, or a fine. A vehicle driven by a person never issued a driver's license may be impounded for 30 days.", "uid": "1j7kigf57nb09" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-dmv-report-deadline", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 16000", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=16000" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver is in a crash that causes damage over $1,000 to one person's property. Within how many days must the driver report it to the DMV?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "5 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "30 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "10 days" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "A driver involved in a crash must report it to the DMV within 10 days, on form SR 1, if it caused damage over $1,000 to one person's property or any injury or death, whoever caused the crash. The period is 10 days, not 5, 15 or 30.", "uid": "14jnx8g1qas8om" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-police-stop-action", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "police-stops" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 29", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=29#page=35" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver is signaled to stop by an officer. Which action does the handbook list for the stop?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Move onto the left shoulder" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Get out unless told to stay in" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stay in unless told to get out" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Keep the window up until asked" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "California's handbook lists staying inside unless told to get out, moving completely onto the right shoulder and rolling down the window before the officer makes contact, among six actions. Getting out, the left shoulder and a raised window are not on that list.", "uid": "15ac3hf1sfgkh7" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-documents-at-a-stop", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "police-stops", "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 30", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=30#page=36" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver is stopped by an officer. Which set of documents must the driver produce?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "License, insurance, registration" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "License, registration, passport" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "License, insurance, vehicle title", "short": "License, insurance, title" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "License, registration, vehicle title", "short": "License, registration, title" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A California driver stopped by an officer must produce a license, proof of insurance and registration. A passport or a vehicle title is not on that list.", "uid": "frs018103blys" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-q-fleeing-an-officer", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "police-stops" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 2800.1", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=2800.1" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver flees a pursuing peace officer's marked vehicle, which has a lighted red lamp and siren, with the intent to evade. This misdemeanor is punishable by up to how long in county jail?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Up to six months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Up to one year" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Up to ten days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Up to three years" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Fleeing a pursuing peace officer's marked vehicle with the intent to evade is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in county jail, not six months, ten days or three years.", "uid": "r2fvgsejq8ji" }, { "id": "dp-ca5-c-written-report-deadline", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 20008", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=20008" }, "template": "A crash with injury or death in California requires a written report to the CHP or city police within ___.", "answer": "24 hours", "distractors": [ "12 hours", "48 hours", "72 hours" ], "explanation": "A crash with injury or death requires a written report to the CHP or city police within 24 hours. The separate report to the DMV has its own deadline.", "uid": "15orzsv1fk8myv" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-minor-permit-rules", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12509", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12509" }, "title": "A California minor's permit rules", "body": "In California, a permit held by a person under 18 is called a **provisional instruction permit**. To apply for an instruction permit, a California applicant under 18 must be at least 15 years and 6 months old, which the DMV's page words as 15 and a half. An applicant who is 15 and a half to 17 and a half must have a certificate of completion of driver education, or of enrollment in an approved integrated driver education/driver training program. A parent or guardian must sign the application, and both must sign if the parents or guardians share joint custody.", "uid": "1xvf2t41epole4" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-signer-duties", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "learner-permit", "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 17707", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=17707" }, "title": "Who signs for a California minor", "body": "A California minor's license application must be signed and verified by both parents if both are living and have custody, and otherwise by the one parent, guardian or custodian; for a dependent or ward of the court, a grandparent, sibling over 18, aunt, uncle or foster parent with whom the minor lives may also sign (Vehicle Code section 17701). A signer is **jointly and severally liable** with the minor for damages from the minor's negligent or wrongful driving (section 17707) and can end responsibility for the minor's later driving by applying to the DMV to cancel the license (section 17711).", "uid": "6h8mmcavx58k" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-permit-path", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "learner-permit", "knowledge-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” Teen Driver Roadmap - California DMV", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/teen-drivers/" }, "title": "The path from permit to license", "body": "The DMV's **Teen Driver Roadmap** sets California's path from permit to license in twelve numbered steps. Along that path, a teen passes through driver's education, the permit tests at the office, practice and a six-month wait, the drive test, and the license with 12 months of restrictions. An applicant must qualify for and be issued the instruction permit within 12 months from the date of the application (Vehicle Code section 12509). A parent or guardian must attend the teen's DMV appointment, and an applicant has three attempts at each knowledge test before reapplying.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of a winding path running left to right with five labeled stops: driver's education, permit tests at the office, practice and a six-month wait, drive test, and license with 12 months of restrictions, joined by arrows.", "imageSearchTerm": "teen driver roadmap permit to license path diagram", "alt": "A path with five stops: driver's education, permit tests, practice and a six-month wait, drive test, license with 12 months of restrictions.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-ca6-f-permit-path.d02edac9.svg" }, "uid": "s48svfuynthj" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-d-instruction-permit", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” Learner's Permits - California DMV", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/learners-permits/" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Instruction permit" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "California's DMV term for what is also called a learner's permit", "short": "California's name for a learner's permit" }, "uid": "1pyaj5o9ic4xg" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-proc-permit-to-license", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "learner-permit", "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” Teen Driver Roadmap - California DMV", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/teen-drivers/" }, "goal": "The five main stages a California teen passes through from permit to license, a path the DMV's Teen Driver Roadmap sets in twelve numbered steps", "steps": [ "Driver's education", "Applying and passing the permit tests at the office", "Practice driving and a six-month wait", "The drive test", "The license, with 12 months of restrictions" ], "uid": "6e7dnt1rcd03f" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-signer-liability", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "learner-permit", "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 17707", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=17707" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California parent signed a minor's license application, and the minor later caused damage through negligent driving. Under the Vehicle Code, who is liable for the damages?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Only the minor as the driver" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Both the minor and the signer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only the signer as the adult" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Neither once the minor is licensed", "short": "Neither once licensed" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The signer is jointly and severally liable with the minor for damages from the minor's negligent or wrongful driving (Vehicle Code section 17707), so the minor's own liability does not replace the signer's.", "uid": "13ldmww1ymfz6i" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-permit-minimum-age", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12509", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12509" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is the minimum age for a California applicant under 18 to apply for an instruction permit?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "15 years and 6 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "16 years and 6 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 years and 9 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "14 years and 6 months" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Vehicle Code section 12509 sets the minimum at 15 years and 6 months, which the DMV's page words as 15 and a half. Waiting until 16 years and 6 months, or applying at 14 years and 6 months, misstates it by a full year.", "uid": "bsnxlb1jjd3fv" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-permit-supervisors", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "supervised-driving", "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "title": "Who supervises a California permit holder", "body": "In California, the **supervising driver** of an adult permit holder, one not in the minor program, must be a California-licensed driver 18 or older, with a valid license of the appropriate class and a driving privilege not subject to probation. A permit holder under 18 practices with a California-licensed driver whose driving privilege is not on probation and who is at least 25, unless the supervisor is the permit holder's parent, spouse, guardian or a licensed or certified driving instructor, who may be any age.", "uid": "u7z3vo8td7du" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-provisional-requirements", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "provisional-license", "supervised-driving" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "title": "Getting a provisional license", "body": "To get a **provisional license**, a California minor must be at least 16 and must have held the instruction permit for six months. The minor must also have practiced driving for 50 hours, 10 of them at night. The California DMV states six hours of professional driver training for a teen license.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "A teenage driver behind the wheel of a car with a parent in the passenger seat. No readable text, brands or logos.", "imageSearchTerm": "teen driver with parent", "alt": "A teenage driver at the wheel with a parent in the passenger seat", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "Pexels ยท Kindel Media ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-mother-and-son-inside-a-car-8550826/", "subject": "Inside a car in a suburban neighborhood: a teenage boy in a black T-shirt, seat belt on, at the wheel, calm and smiling, while a woman in a blue top in the passenger seat, also belted, reaches across and rests a hand on his arm.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-ca6-f-provisional-requirements.bcd89fea.webp" }, "factVariant": "image-heavy", "uid": "1hs63d3gt6c1" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-first-year-limits", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "teen-limits", "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "title": "First-year limits on a provisional license", "body": "In the first 12 months, a California **provisional licensee** may not drive between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. or carry passengers under 20, unless accompanied and supervised by a parent or guardian, a licensed driver 25 or older, or, under the Vehicle Code, a licensed or certified driving instructor. Limited exceptions apply to night driving for medical, school, work or family necessity, with a signed note, and for an emancipated minor. A minor's instruction permit instead means supervised driving, with the supervisor seated close enough to take control.", "uid": "gfptpto07lwz" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-cmp-supervisor-age", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "supervised-driving" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "prompt": "Which describes the supervising driver of a California instruction permit holder under 18, rather than an adult permit holder's?", "correct": { "caption": "A California-licensed driver at least 25, unless a parent, spouse, guardian or driving instructor" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "A California-licensed driver who is 18 or older and holds a valid license of the appropriate class" }, "explanation": "A minor's supervisor must be at least 25 unless the supervisor is the permit holder's parent, spouse, guardian or a licensed or certified driving instructor. The rule of 18 or older belongs to the adult permit holder.", "uid": "1n0bml5vchusf" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-cmp-permit-or-license", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "provisional-license", "teen-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "prompt": "Which describes a California provisional license in its first 12 months, rather than a minor's instruction permit?", "correct": { "caption": "Limits on night driving and on carrying passengers, with limited exceptions" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Supervised driving, with a licensed driver seated close enough to take control" }, "explanation": "A provisional license carries night-driving and passenger limits during its first 12 months, with limited exceptions. Supervised driving with a licensed driver seated close enough to take control describes the minor's instruction permit instead.", "uid": "1ym4vt92s5n4n" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-practice-hours", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "provisional-license", "supervised-driving" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "To qualify for a California provisional license, a minor must have practiced driving for how many hours, and how many of them at night?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "50 hours, 15 of them at night" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "30 hours, 10 of them at night" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 hours, 10 of them at night" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "25 hours, 5 of them at night" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A California minor must have practiced driving for 50 hours, and 10 of those hours are at night. Fifteen night hours would overstate the requirement even though the 50-hour total matches.", "uid": "sg6d611j87e4b" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-night-driving-hours", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "teen-limits", "night-driving" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In its first 12 months, a California provisional licensee may not drive between which hours, unless a parent, guardian, licensed driver 25 or older or licensed or certified instructor supervises?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "10 p.m. to 5 a.m." }, { "modality": "text", "value": "11 p.m. to 6 a.m." }, { "modality": "text", "value": "12 a.m. to 5 a.m." }, { "modality": "text", "value": "11 p.m. to 5 a.m." } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The limit runs from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the first 12 months, unless a parent or guardian, a licensed driver 25 or older, or a licensed or certified driving instructor supervises. An earlier 10 p.m. start is not the rule.", "uid": "1uzwhfv18eqxyr" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-limit-exceptions", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "teen-limits", "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 4", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=4#page=10" }, "title": "Four exceptions and their signers", "body": "Four of the exceptions to California's provisional night-driving limit each need a **signed note** from a different person. A medical need calls for a note signed by a physician, stating the condition and the expected recovery date, and school for one signed by the principal, dean or designee. Work calls for one signed by the employer, confirming the employment, and an immediate family member for one signed by a parent or legal guardian, stating the reason, the family member and the date the need will end.", "uid": "1mik7ca19wn1pa" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-points-for-minors", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "provisional-license", "teen-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "title": "Points and paid driving for minors", "body": "A California minor with a provisional license cannot drive for pay or operate vehicles that need a commercial Class A, B or C license, and the Vehicle Code bars hiring someone under 18 to drive a motor vehicle on the highways for pay (section 12515). Two or more **violation points** in 12 months bring a provisional licensee a 30-day restriction. Three or more bring a six-month suspension and one year of probation, which both run their full length even after the 18th birthday.", "uid": "1nh574t7xkvix" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-adult-points-citations", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 54", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=54#page=60" }, "title": "Adult point totals and citations", "body": "An adult California driver's license may be suspended when the record shows 4 points within 12 months, 6 points within 24 months or 8 points within 36 months, and the Vehicle Code presumes such a driver to be a negligent operator (section 12810.5). California's handbook glossary defines a **traffic citation** as a formal summons that law enforcement issues for breaking a traffic law, also called a ticket. For a one-point violation, a judge may offer traffic violator school, which keeps the citation off the insurance record but on the driver record, only once in any 18 months.", "uid": "ur07321ixeswq" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-p-school-exception", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "teen-limits" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 4", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=4#page=10" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "California's school exception note" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Signed by the principal, dean or designee" }, "uid": "11hnfg1x092j6" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-tf-two-points", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "statement": "In California, two or more violation points in 12 months bring a provisional licensee a 30-day suspension.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Two or more points in 12 months bring a 30-day restriction, not a suspension. A suspension follows three or more points in 12 months.", "uid": "18gv3pie633fw" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-three-points", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12814.6", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12814.6" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California provisional licensee gets three or more violation points in 12 months. How long is the resulting suspension?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Thirty days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One year" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Six months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three months" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Three or more points in 12 months bring a six-month suspension and one year of probation, both running their full length past the 18th birthday. The 30-day period is the restriction that two points bring.", "uid": "16llnxp95ewb3" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-adult-point-totals", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 54", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=54#page=60" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which set gives the violation points and months at which an adult California driver's license may be suspended?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "4 points in 24 months, 6 in 12, 8 in 36", "short": "4 in 24, 6 in 12, 8 in 36" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4 points in 12 months, 6 in 24, 8 in 36", "short": "4 in 12, 6 in 24, 8 in 36" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4 points in 12 months, 6 in 36, 8 in 24", "short": "4 in 12, 6 in 36, 8 in 24" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4 points in 36 months, 6 in 24, 8 in 12", "short": "4 in 36, 6 in 24, 8 in 12" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "An adult's license may be suspended at 4 points within 12 months, 6 within 24 or 8 within 36, and the Vehicle Code presumes such a driver a negligent operator (section 12810.5). The two and three points in 12 months are the provisional licensee's separate rules.", "uid": "13o2jsn1m1aq2b" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-knowledge-test", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "knowledge-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12804.9", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12804.9" }, "title": "California's knowledge test", "body": "The DMV says California's **knowledge tests** are multiple choice and that every question comes from the handbook. The Vehicle Code requires the driver license examination to cover the code itself, the ability to read the simple English used on traffic signs, and knowing what traffic signs and signals mean.", "uid": "6qxwv95dnslv" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-drive-test", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "drive-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), pp. 6-7, and Teen Driver Roadmap", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=6#page=12" }, "title": "California's drive test", "body": "A California minor has three attempts at the behind-the-wheel test, or **drive test**, which the handbook defines as one where the applicant controls the vehicle with a DMV examiner riding along. The handbook says to bring, among other things, a safe vehicle, valid proof of insurance and registration, and another California-licensed driver at least 18 (25 for minors), unless already licensed to drive. It also bars driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control; a backup camera or blind spot monitor may be used but does not replace a visual check of mirrors and blind spots.", "uid": "yhgfzw1eayq4y" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-f-dmv-notices", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 14600", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=14600" }, "title": "What a driver owes the DMV", "body": "A California driver who moves must notify the DMV of both the old and new address within 10 days (Vehicle Code section 14600). Driving with an expired driver's license is against the law in California, and the code bars driving on a highway unless the person holds a **valid driver's license**, except those persons expressly exempted under the code (section 12500).", "uid": "1yex9m5pgomix" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-d-dpe", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "drive-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 84", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=84#page=90" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "DPE" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California's handbook glossary, the part of the drive test where the applicant drives their own car and a DMV examiner evaluates their driving skills", "short": "Own-car part of the drive test" }, "uid": "krunq6jvvgl4" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-exam-covers-reading", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "knowledge-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12804.9", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12804.9" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In California, the Vehicle Code requires the driver license examination to test the ability to read what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Billboards and advertising signs" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Maps and driving directions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Vehicle registration forms" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Simple English on traffic signs" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Vehicle Code requires the examination to cover the code itself, the simple English used on traffic signs, and what signs and signals mean. Advertising signs, maps and registration forms are not on that list.", "uid": "10287m9pn7qxx" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-drive-test-attempts", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "drive-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” Teen Driver Roadmap - California DMV", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/teen-drivers/" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California minor is about to take the drive test. How many attempts at it does a minor have?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "2 attempts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "3 attempts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4 attempts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "5 attempts" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A California minor has three attempts at the drive test. Each knowledge test also allows three attempts, so a fourth attempt is not the rule for either test.", "uid": "jivd1u1a1gmqw" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-drive-test-allowed-tech", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "drive-test" ], "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 7", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=7#page=13" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these does California's handbook allow an applicant to use on the drive test?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Blind spot monitor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Adaptive cruise control" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lane departure features" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Automated parking" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "California's handbook allows a backup camera or blind spot monitor, though neither replaces checking the mirrors and blind spots by eye. It bars driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control and lane departure features.", "uid": "16fe8m94awzop" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-q-address-change-days", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 14600", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=14600" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A California driver moves to a new home. Within how many days must the DMV be notified of both the old and new address?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "7 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "20 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "10 days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "30 days" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A California driver who moves must notify the DMV of both the old and new address within 10 days (Vehicle Code section 14600). The handbook gives the same 10 days, so 20 or 30 days would be too long.", "uid": "zwolwmfpgxak" }, { "id": "dp-ca6-tf-expired-license", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "California Legislature โ€” California Vehicle Code section 12500", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=12500" }, "statement": "In California, driving on a highway with an expired driver's license is against the law, except for persons the Vehicle Code expressly exempts.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Vehicle Code bars driving on a highway unless the person holds a valid driver's license, except those persons expressly exempted under the code (section 12500).", "uid": "6x490t19wywsr" }, { "id": "ot-dp-ca6-traffic-school-limit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "license-duties" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "For a one-point violation, a California judge may offer traffic violator school. How often may a driver have that option?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Once in any 12 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Once in any 18 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Once in any 24 months" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Once in any 36 months" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "In California a judge may offer traffic violator school for a one-point violation only once in any 18 months, and Vehicle Code section 41501 has the court tell the person of that limit; 12, 24 and 36 months are not the limit.", "source": { "label": "California Department of Motor Vehicles โ€” California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, Rev. 6/2025), p. 54", "url": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handbook-pdf?printedPage=54#page=60" }, "uid": "10jlllrpainxr" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-right-of-way-signs", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "right-of-way", "intersections", "traffic-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Right of Way, Stop Signs and Dark Signals", "body": "In Texas, **right-of-way** is the entitlement of one vehicle or pedestrian to go ahead of another that is approaching close enough to risk a collision, unless one of them gives way. At a stop sign the driver stops, then yields to a vehicle that entered from another highway or is close enough to be an immediate hazard; a yield sign requires slowing and yielding, and a stop only if safety requires it. A signal that shows no indication in any signal head counts as a stop sign, except a freeway entrance ramp control signal or a pedestrian hybrid beacon.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Straight-on photograph of a standard red-and-white triangular YIELD (R1-2) sign mounted on a post", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R1-2 yield sign", "alt": "A red-and-white triangular YIELD (R1-2) sign", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Federal Highway Administration ยท Public domain", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_R1-2.svg", "subject": "A flat drawing of a downward-pointing red triangular YIELD sign with a thin white border and a white inner triangle bearing red YIELD lettering.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx1-f-right-of-way-signs.0f007d49.webp" }, "uid": "q5lpey15iul6y" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-uncontrolled-yields-alleys", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "intersections", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Uncontrolled Intersections and Alleys", "body": "At a Texas **uncontrolled intersection**, which no sign or signal controls, a driver on a road with one or two lanes yields to traffic on a divided road or a road with three or more marked lanes, and a driver on an unpaved road yields to traffic on a paved road. A driver on a street that ends yields to the other road; at other uncontrolled intersections, a driver yields to a vehicle that has entered, or is approaching in hazardous proximity, from the driver's right. A driver leaving an alley or driveway stops before the sidewalk and yields to highway traffic and to sidewalk pedestrians.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a T-intersection with no signs or signals: one street ends at a crossing road, a car on the street that ends waits while a car on the crossing road drives past. Flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "T-intersection right-of-way diagram street that ends yields", "alt": "Two panels: a car on a street that ends yields to the other road; a car leaving an alley stops before the sidewalk.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx1-f-uncontrolled-yields-alleys.1fd35f4b.svg" }, "uid": "1bzg8anqcxd7n" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-all-way-roundabouts", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "all-way-stops", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "title": "Who Goes First at an All-Way Stop", "body": "At an **all-way stop**, every approach has a stop sign. To decide who goes first, the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) teaches this order as guidance: every driver stops, traffic then goes in the order of arrival, and when two vehicles arrive at once, the driver yields to the vehicle on the right.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a four-way intersection with a stop sign on every approach: three cars have stopped, the first arrival marked as going first and, of two cars that arrived together, the one on the right marked as going next. Flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "all-way stop intersection right-of-way order diagram", "alt": "Four-way stop: the first car to arrive goes first; of two that arrive together, the driver yields to the vehicle on the right.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx1-f-all-way-roundabouts.db438e8f.svg" }, "uid": "16lb6yufda7qs" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-cmp-stop-sign-yield-condition", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "right-of-way", "intersections" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": "Which describes the traffic a Texas driver yields to after stopping at a stop sign, rather than at an uncontrolled intersection?", "correct": { "caption": "A vehicle that entered from another highway or is close enough to be an immediate hazard" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "A vehicle that has entered, or is approaching in hazardous proximity, from the driver's right" }, "explanation": "After stopping at a Texas stop sign, the driver yields to a vehicle that entered the intersection from another highway or is close enough to be an immediate hazard. Yielding to a vehicle from the driver's right is a rule for an uncontrolled intersection, which no sign or signal controls.", "uid": "1cnkevp19kiqbv" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-street-ends-yields", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "intersections", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At a Texas intersection with no sign or signal, which of these drivers yields to the other road?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver on a paved road that meets an unpaved road", "short": "Paved road meeting unpaved" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver on a divided road that meets a two-lane road", "short": "Divided road meeting two-lane" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver on a street that ends where it meets another road", "short": "Street that ends at a road" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A driver on a three-lane road that meets a one-lane road", "short": "Three-lane meeting one-lane" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A driver on a street that ends yields to the other road. In the other three the yield runs the opposite way: an unpaved road yields to a paved road, and a road with one or two lanes yields to a divided road or one with three or more marked lanes.", "uid": "1k5jw9aaaagew" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-proc-all-way-order", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "all-way-stops", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "goal": "At a Texas all-way stop, where every approach has a stop sign, DL-7 teaches this order as guidance for deciding who goes first when vehicles could collide", "steps": [ "Every driver stops at the stop sign", "Traffic then goes in the order of arrival", "When two arrive at once, the driver yields to the vehicle on the right" ], "uid": "11juak61rts9wq" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-tf-alley-driveway", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "intersections", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "statement": "A Texas driver leaving an alley or driveway stops before the sidewalk and yields to highway traffic and to pedestrians on the sidewalk.", "isTrue": true, "why": "Texas law has a driver leaving an alley or driveway stop before the sidewalk and yield both to highway traffic and to pedestrians on the sidewalk.", "uid": "2adib9117j9kz" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-dark-signal", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "traffic-signals", "intersections" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 544: Traffic-Control Devices", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.544.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A traffic signal at a Texas intersection shows no indication in any of its signal heads and is neither a freeway entrance ramp control signal nor a pedestrian hybrid beacon. How is it treated?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As a stop sign for approaching drivers", "short": "As a stop sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a yield sign for approaching drivers", "short": "As a yield sign" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As an intersection with no sign or signal", "short": "As uncontrolled" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a flashing yellow signal for drivers", "short": "As flashing yellow" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Texas law treats a signal that shows no indication in any signal head as a stop sign, except a freeway entrance ramp control signal or a pedestrian hybrid beacon. It is not an uncontrolled intersection, where the yield rules apply.", "uid": "snhqy01fjxm2o" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-c-three-lanes", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "intersections", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "With no sign or signal in Texas, a driver on a road with one or two lanes yields to traffic on a divided road or on a road with ___ or more marked lanes.", "answer": "three", "distractors": [ "four", "five", "six" ], "explanation": "A driver on a Texas road with one or two lanes yields to traffic on a divided road or on a road with three or more marked lanes. A higher number would leave three-lane roads out of the rule.", "uid": "zwpkdu1bwmc0i" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-pedestrians-crosswalks", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "pedestrians", "crosswalks", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 552: Pedestrians", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.552.htm" }, "title": "Pedestrians and Crosswalks", "body": "Where no traffic signal is operating, a Texas driver must stop and yield to a pedestrian in a **crosswalk** on the driver's half of the roadway or approaching from the other half closely enough to be in danger. A driver may not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross. At an intersection or crosswalk where a pedestrian with a white cane or guided by an assistance animal is crossing or attempting to cross, a driver must take necessary precautions to avoid injuring or endangering the pedestrian, and must stop completely if that is the only way to avoid injury or danger.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a two-way road with a marked crosswalk: a car stopped short of the crosswalk while one pedestrian crosses on the car's half of the roadway and another steps in from the far half. Flat vector style, no text.", "imageSearchTerm": "crosswalk pedestrian yield diagram driver half of roadway", "alt": "A car stopped short of a crosswalk on a two-way road; one pedestrian crosses on the driver's half, another on the other half.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx1-f-pedestrians-crosswalks.94f76875.svg" }, "uid": "radgyj1au3t9" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-emergency-vehicles", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Emergency Vehicles and Following Distance", "body": "The Texas duty to yield to an **authorized emergency vehicle** applies when it is using audible and visual signals; for police vehicles, either kind is enough. When one approaches, the driver yields, drives immediately to the right edge or curb clear of any intersection, and stops until the vehicle passes, unless a police officer directs otherwise. Unless on official business, a driver may not follow closer than 500 feet behind a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or an ambulance with flashing red lights.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a four-lane road crossing a side street: an ambulance with flashing lights passing in the left lane while a car stops at the right curb short of the side street, and a dashed 500-foot zone behind the ambulance where following is barred. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "emergency vehicle pull to right stop 500 feet following diagram", "alt": "An ambulance passes while a car stops at the right curb short of the intersection; a crossed-out car trails inside a 500 ft zone.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx1-f-emergency-vehicles.fd9a3a93.svg" }, "uid": "xb2kd4ai8jzs" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-crosswalk-other-half", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crosswalks", "pedestrians" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 552: Pedestrians", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.552.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "No traffic signal is operating at a Texas crosswalk, and a pedestrian on the other half of the roadway is approaching closely enough to be in danger. What must the driver do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Continuing because the pedestrian is on the other half", "short": "Continuing: other half" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slowing and passing because the driver's lane is clear", "short": "Slowing and passing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding only after the pedestrian enters the driver's lane", "short": "Yielding only once in the lane" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping and yielding because the pedestrian is in danger", "short": "Stopping and yielding" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Where no traffic signal is operating, a Texas driver must stop and yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk on the driver's half of the roadway or approaching from the other half closely enough to be in danger. Being on the other half does not excuse continuing.", "uid": "6rtr0j1ym09f1" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-proc-emergency-yield", "shape": "procedure", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "goal": "To let an approaching authorized emergency vehicle pass, a Texas driver follows the Transportation Code's order, unless a police officer directs otherwise", "steps": [ "Yields the right-of-way to the emergency vehicle", "Immediately drives to the right edge or curb, clear of any intersection", "Stops and stays stopped until the vehicle has passed" ], "uid": "1yg6y6zqvx519" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-emergency-signal-trigger", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A police vehicle approaches a Texas driver with its flashing lights on and no siren. Under the Texas duty to yield to an emergency vehicle, what must the driver do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nothing: the duty needs a siren as well as lights", "short": "Nothing: needs a siren too" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yield: one kind of signal is enough for a police vehicle", "short": "Yield: one signal is enough" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nothing: the duty covers only fire vehicles and ambulances", "short": "Nothing: fire and ambulance only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yield only if the police vehicle is in the driver's lane", "short": "Yield only if in driver's lane" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "For a police vehicle, either kind of signal is enough to trigger the Texas duty to yield, so its flashing lights alone mean the driver must yield; no siren is needed.", "uid": "1knqm2u1irpklu" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-c-fire-apparatus-distance", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "emergency-vehicles", "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "Unless on official business, a Texas driver may not follow closer than ___ feet behind a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or an ambulance with flashing red lights.", "answer": "500", "distractors": [ "300", "1,000", "1,500" ], "explanation": "The Texas limit is 500 feet: unless on official business, a driver may not follow closer than that behind a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or an ambulance with flashing red lights. Any other figure would change how close the law lets a driver follow.", "uid": "1nzxq9kz30bxi" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-rail-stop-position", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Where to Stop at a Railroad Crossing", "body": "When a warning applies at a Texas railroad crossing, a driver stops no closer than 15 feet and no farther than 50 feet from the nearest rail; this is a stopping position, not a parking distance. A **stop condition** is a situation that triggers this stop. Among them are a visible signal that warns of a train or other on-track equipment, a lowered gate or a flagger's warning, a train that is plainly visible and in hazardous proximity, and an engine within about 1,500 feet that sounds a signal and is an immediate hazard.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a roadway railroad crossing with the gate arm lowered and the warning lights lit, taken from beside the road, with no people and no readable plates in frame.", "imageSearchTerm": "railroad crossing gate", "alt": "Black-and-white photo of a U.S. railroad crossing: crossbuck, 2 TRACKS plate and signal lights, with a train blurring past behind.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "place", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Warren Valentine ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-black-and-white-railroad-crossing-signal-l9kWk83mLM8", "subject": "Black-and-white close-up of a U.S. crossing signal mast: crossbuck reading RAIL ROAD CROSSING with a 2 TRACKS plaque, lit signal lamps, a lowered striped gate arm with small lights, and a blurred train passing behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx1-f-rail-stop-position.26d99e57.webp" }, "uid": "h3rnqz8di44r" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-gates-and-crossbucks", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Gated and Crossbuck-Only Crossings", "body": "At a Texas crossing with a warning signal, gate or flagger, the driver must stop 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail and remain stopped until permitted and safe. At a **crossbuck-only crossing**, one marked only by a crossbuck, the driver yields to a train in hazardous proximity and stops only if safety requires it. Driving around, under or through a closed crossing gate is an offense in Texas.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a white X-shaped crossbuck sign on a post beside a road, reading RAILROAD CROSSING, plain background.", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R15-1 crossbuck sign", "alt": "White X-shaped Grade Crossing (R15-1) crossbuck sign reading Railroad Crossing", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Federal Highway Administration ยท Public domain", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_R15-1.svg", "subject": "A white X-shaped crossbuck with a thin black outline and black capital lettering, RAIL ROAD along one blade and CROSSING along the other, on a plain white background.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx1-f-gates-and-crossbucks.579dcd2d.webp" }, "uid": "1jh1zz61pry880" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-f-crossing-steps", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "The Steps for Crossing Railroad Tracks", "body": "In Texas, **crossing railroad tracks** involves reducing speed as the crossing approaches, stopping 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail when a warning applies, staying stopped until permitted to proceed and it is safe to proceed, and checking every track at a crossing with two or more tracks, because one train can hide another. No single source lists these steps in this order, and the Transportation Code orders only the stop and the wait.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a road crossing two parallel railroad tracks: a car stopped before the first track, a train on the near track, and a second train on the far track faded where the near train hides it, with a dashed blocked sight line. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "railroad crossing two tracks one train can hide another diagram", "alt": "A car stopped 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail; a train on the near track hides a second train on the far track.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx1-f-crossing-steps.25b4af7c.svg" }, "uid": "1esxjkp1s5wmct" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-cmp-gate-or-crossbuck", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings", "right-of-way" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": "Which describes what a Texas driver does at a crossing with a warning signal, gate or flagger, rather than at a crossbuck-only crossing?", "correct": { "caption": "Stops 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail and stays stopped until permitted and safe" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Yields to a train in hazardous proximity and stops only if safety requires it" }, "explanation": "At a Texas crossing with a warning signal, gate or flagger the driver must stop 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail and remain stopped until permitted and safe. Yielding, with a stop only if safety requires it, is the duty at a crossbuck-only crossing.", "uid": "1ipoxzn1uvja2d" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-lowered-gate-position", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A crossing gate is lowered at a Texas railroad crossing. How far from the nearest rail must an approaching driver stop?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "55 to 100 feet from the nearest rail", "short": "55 to 100 feet from the rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "3 to 8 feet from the nearest rail", "short": "3 to 8 feet from the rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail", "short": "15 to 50 feet from the rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "100 to 500 feet from the nearest rail", "short": "100 to 500 feet from the rail" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "When a warning applies, a Texas driver stops no closer than 15 feet and no farther than 50 feet from the nearest rail, and a lowered gate is one such warning. The other ranges are too close or too far.", "uid": "1ixeknz89h7xh" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-train-in-view", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver nears a railroad crossing with no gate, flagger or signal. A train is plainly visible. When must the driver stop?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Only if its engine sounds a signal", "short": "Only if the engine sounds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When it is in hazardous proximity", "short": "When in hazardous proximity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When any train is in sight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only if a gate or signal gives a warning", "short": "Only if a gate or signal warns" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A Texas driver must stop at a crossing when a train is plainly visible and in hazardous proximity. A train merely in sight does not trigger the stop, and an engine sounding a signal, a lowered gate or a warning signal is a separate condition.", "uid": "mgnk3k1iy0crs" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-q-rail-offense", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which action is an offense at a Texas railroad crossing?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping 15 feet from the nearest rail at a lowered gate", "short": "Stopping 15 feet from the rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stopping 50 feet from the nearest rail at a warning signal", "short": "Stopping 50 feet from the rail" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Yielding to a train at a crossbuck-only crossing", "short": "Yielding at a crossbuck crossing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Driving around or through a closed railroad crossing gate", "short": "Driving around or through a gate" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Driving around, under or through a closed railroad crossing gate is an offense in Texas. A stop 15 or 50 feet from the nearest rail is inside the 15-to-50-foot stopping position, and yielding at a crossbuck-only crossing is that crossing's duty, so neither is an offense.", "uid": "1vofhgc1piliyc" }, { "id": "dp-tx1-c-engine-signal-distance", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "A Texas driver must stop at a railroad crossing when an engine within about ___ feet sounds a signal and is an immediate hazard.", "answer": "1,500", "distractors": [ "500", "1,000", "2,000" ], "explanation": "A Texas driver must stop when an engine within about 1,500 feet sounds a signal and is an immediate hazard. The figure is approximate, as the word about shows, and a smaller or larger one would change the condition.", "uid": "1t3x7hv1r89ir1" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-d-basic-speed-law", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "speed-and-conditions", "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Basic speed law" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Texas, a driver may not drive faster than is reasonable and prudent under existing circumstances", "short": "No faster than reasonable and prudent" }, "uid": "tvxaok1694tx0" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-f-reduced-speed-slow-driving", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Reduced speed and slow driving", "body": "Texas Transportation Code section 545.351(c) requires reduced speed at intersections and railroad crossings, on curves and hill crests, on narrow or winding roads, and whenever a special hazard exists. Texas's DL-7 glossary adds that the basic speed law applies whatever the posted limit says. Texas also bars **impeding traffic**: a driver may not drive so slowly as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law (section 545.363(a)).", "uid": "fqhfw21l0nkfm" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-f-default-limits-districts", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Texas's default speed limits", "body": "Unless a special hazard requires less, Texas Transportation Code section 545.352(b) makes default speeds lawful. Texas treats an area as an **urban district** when structures for business, industry or dwellings stand less than 100 feet apart over at least a quarter mile (section 545.352(d)(3)). The default is 30 mph on a street in an urban district other than an alley, and 15 mph in an alley. Outside an urban district it is 70 mph on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States (farm-to-market and ranch-to-market roads included) and 60 mph on other highways.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a white rectangular R2-1 SPEED LIMIT regulatory sign mounted beside a Texas highway in daylight, with no vehicles or people in the frame", "imageSearchTerm": "speed limit 30 sign", "alt": "A white rectangular SPEED LIMIT 30 (R2-1) sign beside a street", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact" }, "uid": "17zjnub1fo8xwn" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-f-day-night-buses-school-zones", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "school-zone-speeds" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Day-night limits, school buses and school zones", "body": "Texas requires an entity that sets a speed limit to set the same limit for daytime and nighttime (section 545.352(e)). Unless a special hazard requires less, the default for a school bus outside an urban district is 60 mph if the bus has passed a commercial motor vehicle inspection and is on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States, and 50 mph otherwise (section 545.352(b)). A **school crossing zone** is a reduced-speed zone that a local authority designates for children going to or leaving school (Transportation Code section 541.302(13)).", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a fluorescent yellow-green pentagon-shaped S1-1 SCHOOL warning sign showing two walking pupils, mounted beside a residential street in daylight, with no people in the frame", "imageSearchTerm": "school zone sign", "alt": "A fluorescent yellow-green pentagon school crossing sign showing two walking pupils, above a PED XING plaque.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Steve DiMatteo ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/yellow-and-black-no-smoking-sign-D3XbeBFgl8I", "subject": "A fluorescent yellow-green pentagon sign showing two walking pupils, mounted above a matching PED XING plaque, with houses and trees blurred behind.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx2-f-day-night-buses-school-zones.f3ddf13c.webp" }, "uid": "1k2q8pj1vqyysv" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-p-alley-default", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "Alley in Texas" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "15 mph by default, unless a special hazard requires less", "short": "15 mph, unless a special hazard requires less" }, "uid": "48nz8h20hbil" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-numbered-highway-default", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Unless a special hazard requires less, which default speed does Texas make lawful on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States outside an urban district?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "60 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "75 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "70 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Section 545.352(b) makes 70 mph the default on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States outside an urban district, farm-to-market and ranch-to-market roads included. Other highways outside an urban district default to 60 mph.", "uid": "142nbugyedlem" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-urban-district-street", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas street has structures for business, industry or dwellings less than 100 feet apart for at least a quarter mile. Unless a special hazard requires less, what default speed is lawful there?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "30 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "40 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 mph" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 mph" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "That stretch is an urban district, and section 545.352(b) makes 30 mph the default on a street there other than an alley, unless a special hazard requires less. Faster defaults apply on highways outside an urban district, not on a street inside one.", "uid": "1ab3w47olkjnx" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-impeding-exception", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-limits", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver is traveling slowly enough to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic. When is that lawful under Transportation Code section 545.363(a)?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "When saving fuel matters more to the driver", "short": "When saving fuel matters more" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the driver is looking for an address", "short": "When looking for an address" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the driver stays below the default limit", "short": "When below the default limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When reduced speed is necessary for safe operation", "short": "When safe operation requires it" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Section 545.363(a) bars slow driving that impedes traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. Saving fuel, looking for an address or staying below the default limit is not an exception.", "uid": "9p1ocw1k1z9jo" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-c-day-night-limit", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "speed-limits" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "In Texas, a speed limit that an entity sets for nighttime must be ___ the limit it sets for daytime.", "answer": "the same as", "distractors": [ "lower than", "higher than", "independent of" ], "explanation": "Section 545.352(e) requires an entity that sets a speed limit to set the same limit for daytime and nighttime. The driver handbook DL-7's sign entry speaks of day and night maximums, while the code's rule is one limit for both.", "uid": "1kplnt5gwenbj" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-f-assured-clear-distance", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Texas's assured clear distance", "body": "Texas Transportation Code section 545.062(a) requires a driver following another vehicle to leave an **assured clear distance**. That is a gap from which the driver can safely stop, considering the speed of the vehicles, the traffic and the highway conditions, without hitting the vehicle ahead or veering into another vehicle, object or person. Texas law gives no count of seconds, while the driver handbook DL-7 expresses a safe following distance as a time gap of at least two seconds.", "uid": "146pt9u1iwfpl2" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-f-dl7-gap-check-conditions", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "following-distance", "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "title": "DL-7's time gap and driving to conditions", "body": "Texas's driver handbook (DL-7, January 2026) gives a minimum time gap of two seconds at 30 mph or less in good conditions and a four-second gap above 30 mph, and its highway section advises at least two seconds, and at least four in bad weather. Under DL-7's **less-than-two-seconds check**, a Texas driver who reaches a fixed object in less than two seconds after the vehicle ahead passed it is following too closely. DL-7 also tells drivers to slow down and lengthen the following gap on wet or crowded roads or when vision is limited, and not to drive faster than their range of vision allows.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat side-on diagram of two road strips each with a roadside sign as the fixed object and a timer bar: in the first the following car reaches the sign after two seconds (OK), in the second before two seconds (following too closely). 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A time gap in seconds is how the driver handbook DL-7 expresses a safe following distance.", "uid": "14xiv71ihq3lp" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-assured-clear-factors", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Transportation Code section 545.062(a) requires a Texas driver following another vehicle to leave an assured clear distance. Which factors does the driver consider in judging that gap?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The posted limit, the traffic and the highway conditions", "short": "Limit, traffic, conditions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The vehicles' speed, the traffic and the highway conditions", "short": "Speed, traffic, conditions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The vehicles' speed, the traffic and the time of day", "short": "Speed, traffic, time of day" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The posted limit, the traffic and the time of day", "short": "Limit, traffic, time of day" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The gap must let the driver stop safely, considering the vehicles' speed, the traffic and the highway conditions. The posted limit and the time of day are not factors the code names.", "uid": "106tx8s1vufxke" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-less-than-seconds", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "following-distance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "DL-7 says a Texas driver is following too closely on reaching a fixed object in less than how many seconds after the vehicle ahead passed it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Three seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two seconds" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One second" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "DL-7's less-than-two-seconds check treats a Texas driver who reaches a fixed object in less than two seconds after the vehicle ahead passed it as following too closely. Three or five seconds is not the figure in that check.", "uid": "j761je1m12dvq" }, { "id": "dp-tx2-q-reduced-speed-curve", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-and-conditions" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver nears a curve on a clear, dry day with no other traffic in sight. What does Transportation Code section 545.351(c) require about the driver's speed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Reduced speed, because the code names curves", "short": "Reduced: the code names curves" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Holding the speed limit, because no hazard is in sight", "short": "Holding the limit: no hazard" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reduced speed only if other traffic is in sight", "short": "Reduced only if traffic in sight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reduced speed only if a sign warns of the curve", "short": "Reduced only if a sign warns" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Section 545.351(c) requires reduced speed on curves and hill crests, as well as at intersections and railroad crossings, on narrow or winding roads and whenever a special hazard exists. A curve needs no extra hazard, traffic or sign to trigger it.", "uid": "19kwedj1op28oz" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-when-to-signal", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "turn-signals", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "When a Texas driver must signal", "body": "A Texas driver must signal to show an intention to turn, change lanes or start from a parked position. The **turn signal** must run continuously for not less than the last 100 feet before the turn, a distance the Transportation Code sets for turns only. A driver may not stop or suddenly slow down without first giving a stop signal to the driver behind when there is an opportunity, and the Code states no distance for that signal. The Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) further lists entering or leaving a highway, and pulling over, among the times a driver should signal.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a car in the right lane with its right turn signal flashing, a bracket along the road marked as the last 100 feet before the turn, and a second small panel of a car seen from behind with brake lights lit. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "turn signal last 100 feet before turn diagram", "alt": "A car signaling right for at least the last 100 ft before a turn, and brake lights warning the driver behind.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx3-f-when-to-signal.4bde20b9.svg" }, "uid": "1qkw1romfehg6" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-hand-signals", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "hand-signals", "turn-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Texas hand signals", "body": "A Texas driver gives **hand signals** from the left side of the vehicle. The arm held horizontal signals a left turn, the arm pointed upward signals a right turn, and the arm pointed downward signals stop or slow. A bicycle operator may instead signal a right turn from the right side, with the hand and arm extended horizontally.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Simple flat diagram of a car seen from behind with the driver's left arm shown in three positions side by side: held out horizontally, pointed upward and pointed downward, each labeled with its meaning (left turn, right turn, stop or slow). Silhouette only, no face, no readable plate.", "imageSearchTerm": "driver hand and arm signals diagram left turn right turn stop", "alt": "Driver's left arm held horizontal, up, down: left turn, right turn, stop or slow. A bicycle operator's right arm out: right turn.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "thing", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx3-f-hand-signals.b94a9d9b.svg" }, "uid": "12flrcy9k749y" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-turn-on-red", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 544: Traffic-Control Devices", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.544.htm" }, "title": "Turning on a steady red in Texas", "body": "After stopping at a steady red signal and yielding, a Texas driver may turn right, or may turn left if both streets are one-way and a left turn is permissible. A **posted notice** can ban either turn. The Texas Transportation Commission, a city or a county may ban a turn at a steady red signal by posting notice.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of the MUTCD R10-11 NO TURN ON RED regulatory sign, a white rectangular sign with black legend reading NO TURN ON RED, mounted on a signal pole or mast arm at a signalized intersection in daylight, sign face unobstructed, no vehicles or people in focus.", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD R10-11 no turn on red sign", "alt": "MUTCD R10-11 No Turn on Red sign mounted at a signalized intersection", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Julian Falk ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/palm-trees-line-a-street-with-buildings-and-cars-uZbNb1MsJ0A", "subject": "A pale rectangular sign reading NO / TURN / ON RED in black capitals with a black border, mounted on a traffic-signal mast arm beside signal heads, against a blue sky with tall palm trees and a pink building below.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx3-f-turn-on-red.62e5346d.webp" }, "uid": "1lbydpk19fwbca" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-p-left-turn-hand-signal", "shape": "pair", "tags": [ "hand-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "sideA": { "modality": "text", "value": "Texas hand signal for a left turn" }, "sideB": { "modality": "text", "value": "Arm held horizontal" }, "uid": "13no7otjbxi0p" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-cmp-turn-or-stop-signal", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "turn-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": "Which describes the Texas Transportation Code's rule for the turn signal, rather than the stop signal?", "correct": { "caption": "Given continuously for not less than the last 100 feet" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Given to the driver behind with no distance stated" }, "explanation": "The Code requires a turn signal to run continuously for not less than the last 100 feet before the turn. The stop signal goes to the driver behind, and the Code states no distance for it; the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) applies the 100 feet to stopping as well as turning.", "uid": "hoqcfw1lztyqm" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-stop-signal-first", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "turn-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver is about to stop or suddenly slow down. When there is an opportunity, what must the driver do first?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Give a stop signal to the oncoming driver", "short": "Stop signal to oncoming driver" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sound the horn to warn the driver behind", "short": "Horn to warn the driver behind" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Give a stop signal to the driver behind", "short": "Stop signal to driver behind" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wait to signal until the vehicle has stopped", "short": "Signal only after stopping" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Transportation Code bars stopping or suddenly slowing down without first giving a stop signal to the driver behind, when there is an opportunity. The signal comes first and goes to the driver behind, not to oncoming traffic.", "uid": "5lqhp9140m5ip" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-on-red", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 544: Traffic-Control Devices", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.544.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver reaches a steady red signal, and no posted notice bans a right turn. What must the driver do before turning right?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop and yield, then turn right" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slow and yield, then turn right" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop, then turn ahead of traffic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wait for green, then turn right" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "After stopping at a steady red signal and yielding, a Texas driver may turn right unless a posted notice bans the turn. Slowing down is not stopping, and waiting for green is not required first.", "uid": "1eyzspp1ff8azv" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-right-turn-hand-signal", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hand-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver gives a hand signal for a right turn from the left side of the vehicle. How is the arm positioned?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Arm pointed downward" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arm held horizontal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arm pointed forward" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arm pointed upward" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "In Texas, the arm pointed upward signals a right turn. The arm held horizontal signals a left turn, and the arm pointed downward signals stop or slow.", "uid": "14v9tzn1qlm5wj" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-c-bicycle-right-turn-signal", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "hand-signals", "turn-signals" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "A Texas bicycle operator may signal a right turn from the right side, with the hand and arm extended ___.", "answer": "horizontally", "distractors": [ "upward", "diagonally", "downward" ], "explanation": "A Texas bicycle operator may signal a right turn from the right side with the hand and arm extended horizontally. The arm pointed upward is the right-turn signal a driver gives from the left side of the vehicle.", "uid": "9q4f4m18hmn20" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-tf-left-turn-on-red", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "turn-on-red", "turns" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 544: Traffic-Control Devices", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.544.htm" }, "statement": "After stopping at a steady red signal and yielding, a Texas driver may turn left if both streets are two-way and a left turn is permissible.", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Transportation Code allows a Texas driver to turn left on a steady red signal, after stopping and yielding, when both streets are one-way and a left turn is permissible. A posted notice can still ban the turn.", "uid": "5u4gayzeqws4" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-turn-position-right-half", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "turns", "lanes" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Texas turn positions and the right half", "body": "A Texas right turn is made as near as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge, and a left turn from the **extreme left lane** lawfully available. On a wide enough road, a driver keeps to the right half unless passing, on a road with three marked lanes, on a one-way road, or forced left of center by an obstruction (then yielding to a vehicle that is an immediate hazard). A driver moving more slowly than other traffic uses the right-hand lane or stays as close as practicable to the curb or edge, unless passing or preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of a four-way intersection: one car in the right-hand lane near the right curb making a right turn, and a second car in the extreme left lane making a left turn, an arrow showing each turn path. 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A driver being passed must, on an audible signal from the passing driver, move or remain to the right and may not accelerate until completely passed, unless passing to the right is permitted. In a **no-passing zone**, a Texas driver may not drive on the left side of the road, but may cross the striping, or the center line where signs only mark the zone, to turn left into or out of an alley, private road or driveway.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of the MUTCD W14-3 NO PASSING ZONE sign, a yellow pennant-shaped warning sign with black NO PASSING ZONE legend, mounted on the left side of a rural two-lane road in daylight, sign face unobstructed, no vehicles or people in focus.", "imageSearchTerm": "MUTCD W14-3 no passing zone sign", "alt": "Two yellow pennant-shaped NO PASSING ZONE (W14-3) signs on posts against a blue sky.", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Pexels ยท Giant Asparagus ยท Pexels License", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/road-warning-no-passing-zone-signs-in-nature-35516942/", "subject": "Two yellow right-pointing pennant signs on metal posts against a blue sky and trees, each reading NO / PASSING / ZONE in black capitals inside a black border.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx3-f-passing-rules.d9a34d96.webp" }, "uid": "pyurh54oixd7" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-no-passing-zone-turn", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver in a no-passing zone marked by striping must turn left into a private road. Which statement is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver must wait until the zone ends", "short": "Must wait until the zone ends" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver may cross the striping to turn", "short": "May cross the striping to turn" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver must turn at the next intersection", "short": "Must turn at next intersection" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver may pass first and then make the turn", "short": "May pass first and then turn" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A Texas driver may not drive on the left side of the road in a no-passing zone. The exception is a left turn: the driver may cross the striping, or the center line where signs only mark the zone, to turn left into or out of an alley, private road or driveway.", "uid": "1vnkcu01pia2u2" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-accelerate-when-passed", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "passing" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver being passed on the left has moved right on the passing driver's audible signal. When may the driver being passed accelerate?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Once the pass has begun" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "After being completely passed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Whenever the road ahead is clear" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Once the audible signal ends" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A Texas driver being passed may not accelerate until completely passed, so a pass that has begun, an ended signal or a clear road ahead does not lift the bar. That duty does not apply when passing to the right is permitted.", "uid": "15l5muuoith00" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-c-slower-traffic-exception", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "slow-vehicles", "lanes" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "template": "A Texas driver moving more slowly than the normal speed of other vehicles uses the right-hand lane or stays as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge, unless passing another vehicle or preparing for a ___ at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.", "answer": "left turn", "distractors": [ "right turn", "stop", "lane change" ], "explanation": "A slower Texas driver is excused from the right-hand lane or right-edge duty only for passing another vehicle or preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway (Section 545.051(b)). A right turn is not one of the exceptions.", "uid": "10ovhnncytw0p" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-tf-three-marked-lanes", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "lanes" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "statement": "A Texas driver on a road with three marked lanes does not have to keep to the right half of the roadway.", "isTrue": true, "why": "On a roadway wide enough, a Texas driver keeps to the right half unless passing, obstructed, on a road with three marked lanes, or on a one-way road.", "uid": "bn6wv7kxvfnn" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-parking-ban-tiers", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "parking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Texas parking bans in three tiers", "body": "Texas law sorts parking bans into **three tiers**: no stopping, standing or parking in an intersection, on a crosswalk, sidewalk, railroad track or highway bridge, or in a highway tunnel, among other places; no standing or parking in front of a driveway, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger; and no parking within 50 feet of a railroad crossing's nearest rail, or where an official sign bars parking, except temporarily to load or unload. No tier applies when needed to avoid conflict with other traffic or to obey the law, a police officer or an official traffic-control device.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down street plan with places color-coded by parking-ban tier: red for an intersection, crosswalk, sidewalk, railroad track and bridge; orange in front of a driveway; yellow within 50 feet of a railroad crossing. A three-row legend. 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These bans do not apply when needed to avoid conflict with other traffic or to obey the law, a police officer or an official traffic-control device. On a two-way road, a parked vehicle's right-hand wheels must be parallel to the curb or road edge and within 18 inches of it.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram of one block of a two-way street with a curbside parking lane. A fire hydrant, a crosswalk at an intersection and a stop sign on the approach are marked, and the stretch of curb where standing or parking is barred is shaded beside each, labeled 15 feet, 20 feet and 30 feet. Plain colors, no vehicles, no other text.", "imageSearchTerm": "no parking distance from fire hydrant crosswalk stop sign diagram", "alt": "No-parking stretches by a hydrant (15 ft), crosswalk (20 ft), stop sign (30 ft), railroad crossing (50 ft); car within 18 in of curb.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx3-f-parking-distances.65c60299.svg" }, "uid": "1kb6em0jrywv8" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-f-lights-and-beams", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "headlights", "night-driving" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 547: Vehicle Equipment (nighttime defined in Chapter 541, Section 541.401)", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.547.htm" }, "title": "Texas lights at night and headlight beams", "body": "A Texas vehicle must show its required lights during **nighttime**, the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, and whenever a person or vehicle is not clearly discernible (cannot be clearly seen) 1,000 feet ahead. A Texas driver within 300 feet behind another vehicle may not use the upper beam. A Texas driver within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle uses the lower beam, or aims the lights so that no part of the high-intensity portion projects into the oncoming driver's eyes.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down night-road diagram: a car with low-beam cones, a bracket of 500 feet to an oncoming car in the other lane and a bracket of 300 feet to a car ahead in its own lane, with a crossed-out high-beam cone. Brackets drawn in a 500 to 300 ratio. Short labels.", "imageSearchTerm": "low beams 500 feet oncoming 300 feet behind diagram", "alt": "Night road with brackets: 500 ft to an oncoming car (lower beam), 300 ft to a car ahead (no upper beam).", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx3-f-lights-and-beams.200ab521.svg" }, "uid": "7209mze6njwx" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-q-brief-passenger-stop", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver wants to stop for only a moment to let a passenger out. At which place is that allowed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "In front of a driveway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Inside an intersection" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "On a railroad track" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Inside a highway tunnel" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A Texas driver may not stand or park in front of a driveway except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger. An intersection, a railroad track and a highway tunnel are first-tier places, where even stopping is barred.", "uid": "qjjxhg1lc1qvm" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-hydrant-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Generally, Texas bars standing or parking within how many feet of a fire hydrant?" }, "value": 15, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "kar08g23dojw" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-crosswalk-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking", "crosswalks" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Generally, Texas bars standing or parking within how many feet of intersection crosswalks?" }, "value": 20, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "1m1lvpujbes9k" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-signal-approach-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Generally, Texas bars standing or parking within how many feet before a stop sign?" }, "value": 30, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "1a3l43q1yjpl6o" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-railroad-crossing-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "parking", "railroad-crossings" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Generally, Texas bars parking within how many feet of a railroad crossing's nearest rail?" }, "value": 50, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "ef26yo8uogj4" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-upper-beam-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "headlights" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 547: Vehicle Equipment", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.547.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Texas bars the upper beam within how many feet behind another vehicle?" }, "value": 300, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "1ccguiq1vdb432" }, { "id": "dp-tx3-n-lower-beam-distance", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "headlights", "night-driving" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 547: Vehicle Equipment", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.547.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Within how many feet of oncoming traffic must Texas headlights be lowered or aimed away?" }, "value": 500, "unit": "feet", "tolerance": 0, "uid": "ahdrs7fn0n37" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-under-18-wireless-ban", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "title": "Texas Wireless Device Ban Under 18", "body": "A Texas driver under 18 may not use a **wireless communication device** while operating a motor vehicle, except in an emergency. The Transportation Code defines that device as one that uses commercial mobile service, whether handheld or hands-free, so the ban covers hands-free use. The ban for all drivers works differently: it covers reading, writing or sending an electronic message, unless the vehicle is stopped. Texting is a form of distracted driving, which is any activity that pulls a driver's attention away from driving.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1ctpeg71pgnqe9" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-texting-offense-defenses", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "title": "Texas Texting Offense and Its Defenses", "body": "Every Texas driver commits the **texting offense** by using a portable device to read, write or send an electronic message while driving, unless the vehicle is stopped. The code lists six affirmative defenses: hands-free use; navigation; using a portable wireless communication device to report illegal activity, summon emergency help or enter information into a traffic and road-conditions app; reading a message the driver reasonably believed concerned an emergency; certain work equipment; and starting music. The hands-free defense does not make hands-free use lawful for a driver under 18.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "103k9pr13b8q1n" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-child-seat-and-seat-belt", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "child-restraints", "seat-belts" ], "title": "Texas Child Seat and Seat Belt Rules", "body": "A Texas driver who transports a child younger than eight years old must keep the child secured in a **child passenger safety seat system** used as the manufacturer directs, unless the child is taller than 4 feet 9 inches. The belt rule covers different riders: a person at least 15 years old who rides in an operating passenger vehicle, in a seat with a safety belt, commits an offense by not being secured by it. That rule also makes the driver responsible for a child under 17 who is not required to be in a child seat. These rules protect people in a vehicle, such as a child in a seat.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of an empty child passenger safety seat buckled into the back seat of a passenger car, with no child or other person in the picture, a plain unmarked seat and neutral interior lighting.", "imageSearchTerm": "child car seat", "alt": "Empty child car seats installed on the back seat of a car", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons ยท Shixart1985 ยท CC BY 2.0", "creditUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modern_child_car_seat_closeup.jpg", "subject": "Empty red and maroon booster-type child car seats set on the back seat of a passenger car with the vehicle belt running beside them; no legible brand, logo or text.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx4-f-child-seat-and-seat-belt.6d50f178.webp" }, "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "ifvjb8yuh4vy" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-texting-defense", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which use of a portable device is an affirmative defense to the Texas texting offense?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Replying to a message from a friend", "short": "Replying to a friend's message" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Using the device for navigation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sending a short message in slow traffic", "short": "A short message in slow traffic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Checking a social media feed" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Navigation is one of the six affirmative defenses in the Transportation Code. Replying to a friend, sending a short message in slow traffic and checking a feed are not on that list, so none of them is a defense.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "ng2je1igtyax" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-when-stopped", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Under the Texas texting offense, when may a driver read, write or send an electronic message on a portable device?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "When traffic is moving slowly" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the message is very short" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the road ahead is clear" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When the vehicle is stopped" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The texting offense covers reading, writing or sending an electronic message while driving, unless the vehicle is stopped. Slow traffic is still driving. DL-7 words its entry more briefly, leaving out the stopped-vehicle exception.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "12bzmmo39ro42" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-child-seat-age", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "child-restraints", "seat-belts" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver transports a child who is younger than eight but taller than 4 feet 9 inches. Which Texas rule covers how that child rides?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The child seat rule, as the child is younger than eight", "short": "Child seat: under eight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The belt rule, as the child is taller than 4 feet 9 inches", "short": "Belt: over 4 feet 9 inches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The child seat rule, as the height exception starts at eight", "short": "Child seat: exception at eight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Neither rule, as the child is too young for a belt", "short": "Neither: too young for a belt" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Texas child seat rule covers a child younger than eight unless the child is taller than 4 feet 9 inches, so this child is outside it. The belt rule covers the child instead: it makes the driver responsible for a child under 17 who is not required to be in a child seat.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "134yciz1ef0iy7" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-cmp-under-18-vs-all-drivers", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "prompt": "Which describes the Texas phone ban for drivers under 18, rather than the texting offense for all drivers?", "correct": { "caption": "Any wireless communication device, hands-free included, except in an emergency" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Reading, writing or sending an electronic message, unless the vehicle is stopped" }, "explanation": "The ban for drivers under 18 covers any wireless communication device, hands-free included, except in an emergency. The texting offense for all drivers covers reading, writing or sending an electronic message, and it does not apply when the vehicle is stopped.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1ghoe41ot0a2i" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-tf-emergency-message-defense", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "phones", "distraction" ], "statement": "While driving, a Texas driver reads a message on a portable device that they reasonably believe concerns an emergency. The Transportation Code gives no defense to the texting offense for this.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Reading an electronic message that the driver reasonably believed concerned an emergency is one of the six affirmative defenses the code lists for the texting offense.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "zdxpj8zcwp06" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-c-driver-responsible-child", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "seat-belts", "child-restraints" ], "template": "In Texas, the seat belt rule makes the ___ responsible for a child under 17 who is not required to be in a child seat.", "answer": "driver", "distractors": [ "owner", "parent", "adult passenger" ], "explanation": "The belt rule makes the driver responsible for a child under 17 who is not required to be in a child seat, so the driver commits an offense by letting such a child ride unbelted. The vehicle's owner, a parent or another adult passenger is not the person the rule names.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "86xwsv15rj2o7" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-school-bus-stop-rule", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "title": "Texas School Bus Stop Rule", "body": "A Texas driver on a highway must stop before reaching a school bus that is stopped to receive or discharge a student and is operating a **visual signal**, approaching from either direction. The only exceptions apply on a highway with separate roadways: a bus on a different roadway or, on a controlled-access highway, a bus in a loading zone where pedestrians may not cross. A Texas school bus warns with four alternately flashing red lights, two at the front and two at the rear. The driver may not proceed until the bus moves, the bus driver signals to proceed, or the signal is no longer actuated.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a school bus stopped at the side of a road with its red warning lights flashing, with no students or other people in the frame and no readable registration tags.", "imageSearchTerm": "school bus stopped red warning lights flashing", "alt": "Front of a yellow school bus showing its SCHOOL BUS sign and the red and amber warning lamps at the top corners", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "artifact", "credit": "Unsplash ยท Thomas Park ยท Unsplash License", "creditUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/yellow-school-bus-with-yellow-school-bus-apP7443MXIQ", "subject": "The front of a yellow school bus against a blue sky and clouds, with a black SCHOOL BUS sign on yellow, red lamps at the outer top corners, amber lamps inside them and three amber lamps on the roof; the windshield reflects clouds.", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/images/dp-tx4-f-school-bus-stop-rule.7ebd3020.webp" }, "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, section 545.066 (Chapter 545) and section 547.701 (Chapter 547)", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "15ap58l8mx14t" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-school-bus-exceptions", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "title": "Texas School Bus Stop Exceptions", "body": "In Texas, a driver need not stop for a school bus that is on a different **roadway**. On a controlled-access highway having separate roadways, a driver also need not stop for a school bus stopped in a loading zone that is part of or adjacent to the highway where pedestrians may not cross the roadway. Roadways separated only by a left turn lane are not separate roadways, so the driver must still stop when the bus is operating its visual signal.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Simple top-down diagram in two panels with flat colors and no people. Left panel: a road with a center left turn lane, a school bus with red lights flashing on one side and a car approaching from the other side, captioned 'Only a left turn lane between: same roadway, the car must stop'. Right panel: a highway with two separate roadways, the school bus on one roadway and a car on the other, captioned 'Different roadway: the car need not stop'.", "imageSearchTerm": "school bus separate roadways left turn lane diagram", "alt": "Two panels: school bus across only a left turn lane, car must stop; school bus on a separate roadway, car need not stop.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx4-f-school-bus-exceptions.b79dbf3c.svg" }, "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "x2th8z18gokh9" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-school-bus-wait", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver has stopped for a school bus that is operating its visual signal. Which event allows the driver to proceed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The last student has crossed the road ahead", "short": "Last student has crossed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The bus door closes once students are aboard", "short": "Bus door closes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The bus driver signals the driver to proceed", "short": "Bus driver signals to proceed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A set number of seconds passes without change", "short": "A set number of seconds passes" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A Texas driver stopped for a school bus may not proceed until the bus moves, the bus driver signals the driver to proceed, or the visual signal is no longer actuated. A closed door, a crossed student or a passing interval is not on that list.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1ixd7r72yywlp" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-school-bus-left-turn-lane", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver approaches a school bus operating its visual signal. Only a left turn lane separates the driver's side of the road from the bus. What must the driver do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Continue, because the bus is on a different roadway", "short": "Continue: different roadway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop, because the bus is still on the driver's roadway", "short": "Stop: bus still on own roadway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slow down and pass, because the students are on the far side", "short": "Slow down and pass" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop only if the bus is on the driver's own side of the road", "short": "Stop only on the driver's side" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Roadways separated only by a left turn lane are not separate roadways for the school-bus stop rule, so the driver must still stop while the bus operates its visual signal. The different-roadway exception does not apply across a left turn lane.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "dn36zmudhkw6" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-cmp-school-bus-same-or-different-roadway", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "prompt": "Which situation requires a Texas driver to stop for a school bus that is operating its visual signal?", "correct": { "caption": "A bus on the driver's own roadway, from either direction" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "A bus on a different roadway from the driver's own" }, "explanation": "A Texas driver must stop for a school bus operating its visual signal from either direction on a highway. The driver need not stop when the bus is on a different roadway, or in a controlled-access loading zone where pedestrians may not cross.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1xgmhbnacam6r" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-c-loading-zone", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "school-buses" ], "template": "On a controlled-access highway having separate roadways, a Texas driver need not stop for a school bus stopped in a ___ zone that is part of or adjacent to the highway where pedestrians may not cross the roadway.", "answer": "loading", "distractors": [ "parking", "work", "passing" ], "explanation": "The exception covers a school bus stopped in a loading zone that is part of or adjacent to a controlled-access highway where pedestrians may not cross. A bus in a parking, work or passing zone does not fit it.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "xm92pvngmz7p" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-move-over-rule", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "move-over", "emergency-vehicles" ], "title": "Texas Move-Over Rule", "body": "The Texas **move-over rule** covers a stationary emergency, tow, Texas Department of Transportation, utility or other listed vehicle that is using its lights. Unless a police officer directs otherwise, an approaching driver must move out of the closest lane on a highway with two or more lanes in that direction, or else slow down. Where the posted speed limit is 25 mph or more, slowing means a speed not exceeding 20 mph less than the posted limit, that is, at least 20 mph below it. Where it is under 25 mph, slowing means a speed no more than 5 mph.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Photograph of a tow truck stopped on the shoulder of a multi-lane highway with its amber warning lights flashing, with no people close to the camera and no readable registration tags.", "imageSearchTerm": "tow truck flashing lights", "alt": "Tow truck stopped on a highway shoulder with its warning lights flashing", "kind": "photo", "subjectType": "scene" }, "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1luo4fp1hjw7rn" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-f-bicycle-and-motorcycle-rules", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "bicycles", "motorcycles" ], "title": "Texas Bicycle and Motorcycle Rules", "body": "A Texas bicycle rider moving slower than traffic rides as near as practicable to the right curb or edge, unless passing, preparing for a left turn, avoiding a hazard, or in an outside lane under 14 feet wide without a bike lane or too narrow to share. On a one-way roadway with two or more marked lanes, the rider may ride as near as practicable to the left curb or edge instead. Two bicycle riders may ride side by side in one lane if they do not impede traffic. A motorcycle may not ride between two lanes of vehicles traveling the same way, which bans **lane splitting**.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 551 (ยง551.103, bicycles) and Chapter 545 (ยง545.0605, motorcycles)", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.551.htm" }, "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat top-down diagram in three panels: a bicycle near the right curb of a lane, two bicycles side by side in one lane, and a crossed-out motorcycle riding between two lines of cars. Short labels and a footer listing the right-edge exceptions.", "imageSearchTerm": "bicycle right edge side by side motorcycle lane splitting diagram", "alt": "Three panels: a bicycle near the right curb, two bicycles side by side in a lane, and a crossed-out motorcycle between car lanes.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx4-f-bicycle-and-motorcycle-rules.f57f0466.svg" }, "uid": "1qo6vcq18l9iq" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-move-over-tow-truck", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "move-over", "emergency-vehicles" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Unless a police officer directs otherwise, what must a Texas driver do on approaching a stationary tow truck that is using its lights, on a highway with two lanes in the driver's direction?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Move out of the closest lane or else slow down", "short": "Move over or else slow down" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Keep the same lane at the posted speed limit", "short": "Keep lane at the posted limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stop behind the tow truck until its lights go off", "short": "Stop until its lights go off" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Move over only for an emergency vehicle", "short": "Move over only for emergency" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Unless a police officer directs otherwise, the driver must move out of the closest lane on a highway with two or more lanes in that direction, or else slow down. The rule covers tow vehicles, not only emergency vehicles.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "1otzneeavp4a" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-move-over-speed-25-or-more", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "move-over", "speed-limits" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Texas, a driver slows instead of leaving the lane for a stationary tow truck using its lights, where the posted limit is 25 mph or more. How must the driver's speed compare with the limit?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "At most 5 mph below the limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "At least 25 mph below the limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "At most 20 mph below the limit" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "At least 20 mph below the limit" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Where the posted limit is 25 mph or more, slowing means a speed not exceeding 20 mph less than the limit, that is, at least 20 mph below it. \"At most 20 mph below\" turns the bound around and would allow a speed only slightly under the limit.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "kvd287lm5o79" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-q-two-abreast", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bicycles" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Two bicycle riders in Texas ride side by side in one lane. When is this allowed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "When they are on a one-way roadway", "short": "On a one-way roadway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When no bike lane is marked" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When they do not impede traffic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "When they are riding slower than traffic", "short": "Riding slower than traffic" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Two Texas bicycle riders may ride side by side in one lane if they do not impede traffic. A one-way roadway, the lack of a marked bike lane or slower speed does not by itself allow it.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 551: Operation of Bicycles, Mopeds, Play Vehicles, and Golf Carts", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.551.htm" }, "uid": "ynxsygwnd5je" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-c-move-over-five-mph", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "move-over", "emergency-vehicles" ], "template": "Where the posted speed limit is under 25 mph, the highest speed allowed for a Texas driver who slows instead of leaving the lane for a stationary tow truck using its lights is ___ mph.", "answer": "5", "distractors": [ "15", "20", "10" ], "explanation": "Under 25 mph the Transportation Code sets an actual top speed of 5 mph, not a reduction from the posted limit. DL-7 words this case differently, but the code's rule is no more than 5 mph.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "c52x699iieir" }, { "id": "dp-tx4-tf-lane-splitting-ban", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "motorcycles", "lanes" ], "statement": "In Texas, a motorcycle rider rides between two lanes of vehicles traveling the same way. Texas law bars this, which is known as lane splitting.", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Transportation Code bars a motorcycle from riding between two lanes of vehicles traveling the same way, which bans lane splitting.", "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "uid": "qd1jiz1fke4zx" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-intoxicated-open-container", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "alcohol", "dui", "open-containers" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Penal Code, Chapter 49: Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.49.htm" }, "title": "Intoxicated and Open Containers in Texas", "body": "In Texas, a person is **intoxicated** when not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties because of alcohol, a drug or any other substance, or when having an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more. That figure is a legal line, never a safe amount. Separately, knowingly possessing an open container in a passenger area of a motor vehicle on a public highway is an offense, whether the vehicle is moving, stopped or parked, with exceptions such as passengers in buses, taxis and limousines. These rules protect other people on the road when a driver is impaired.", "uid": "4gy6q68wvfyy" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-d-open-container", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "open-containers", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Penal Code, Chapter 49: Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.49.htm" }, "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Open container", "short": "Open container" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Texas, a receptacle holding any amount of alcoholic beverage that is open, has been opened, has a broken seal or is partly emptied", "short": "Opened or part-empty alcohol receptacle" }, "uid": "41hgk71ely9kp" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-minors-and-alcohol", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "underage-drinking", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Chapter 106: Provisions Relating to Age", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/AL/htm/AL.106.htm" }, "title": "Alcohol Offenses for a Texas Minor", "body": "For Texas alcohol offenses, a **minor**, a person under 21, commits an offense by consuming alcohol, with a defense and exceptions; by purchasing it, except when purchasing under the immediate supervision of a commissioned peace officer enforcing the Alcoholic Beverage Code; by possessing it, with exceptions such as the visible presence of the minor's adult parent, guardian or spouse; and by falsely stating that the minor is 21 or older, or presenting a document that indicates so, to a person selling or serving alcoholic beverages. The handbook (DL-7) lists attempting to purchase alcohol.", "uid": "genuxmzc906w" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-implied-consent-zero-tolerance", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "chemical-tests", "underage-drinking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 724: Implied Consent", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.724.htm" }, "title": "Implied Consent Versus Zero Tolerance", "body": "Texas **implied consent** follows an arrest for operating a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated, or for the zero tolerance offense for minors: the arrested person is deemed to have consented to give breath or blood specimens. Zero tolerance, the name the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) gives the minor offense, makes it an offense for a minor to operate a motor vehicle in a public place, or a watercraft, with any detectable amount of alcohol in the system, even if the minor is not intoxicated. DL-7's glossary words implied consent more broadly, as consent that comes with a license.", "uid": "m73duc1qmw13u" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-open-container-parked", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "open-containers", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Penal Code, Chapter 49: Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.49.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver knowingly keeps a bottle of an alcoholic beverage with a broken seal in the passenger area of a parked car on a public highway. How does the open container offense apply?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It applies only while the vehicle is moving on the highway", "short": "Applies only while moving" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It applies whether the vehicle is moving, stopped or parked", "short": "Moving, stopped or parked" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It applies to any alcohol container, sealed or not", "short": "Any container, sealed or not" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It applies only if the driver is found to be intoxicated", "short": "Applies only if intoxicated" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Knowingly possessing an open container in a passenger area on a public highway is an offense whether the vehicle is moving, stopped or parked, so a parked car is covered. Only a receptacle that is open, has been opened, has a broken seal or is partly emptied counts as open.", "uid": "1v0f3w01awihda" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-open-container-exceptions", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "open-containers", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Penal Code, Chapter 49: Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.49.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Knowingly possessing an open container in a passenger area of a motor vehicle on a Texas public highway is an offense, with exceptions. Which passengers fall under an exception?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Passengers in pickup trucks" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passengers in private cars" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passengers in borrowed vans" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Passengers in limousines" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Passengers in buses, taxis and limousines fall under the exceptions to the Texas open container offense. Passengers in pickup trucks, private cars and borrowed vans are not among the exceptions named.", "uid": "vptrcffb5y9v" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-minor-detectable-alcohol", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "underage-drinking", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Chapter 106: Provisions Relating to Age", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/AL/htm/AL.106.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A Texas driver under 21 operates a motor vehicle in a public place, has alcohol in the system and is not intoxicated. What is the legal result?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "An offense since any detectable amount counts", "short": "Offense at any detectable amount" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "An offense only when the driver drives unsafely", "short": "Offense only if driving unsafely" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "No offense unless the driver causes a collision", "short": "No offense unless a collision" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "No offense since the driver is not intoxicated", "short": "No offense: not intoxicated" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "A Texas minor commits an offense by operating a motor vehicle in a public place with any detectable amount of alcohol in the system, which DL-7 calls zero tolerance. It applies even if the minor is not intoxicated.", "uid": "i8j7gbf0vri9" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-tf-intoxicated-two-ways", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "dui", "alcohol" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Penal Code, Chapter 49: Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.49.htm" }, "statement": "In Texas, a person is intoxicated only when having an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more.", "isTrue": false, "why": "Texas defines intoxicated in two ways: not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties because of alcohol, a drug or any other substance, or having an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more.", "uid": "ir7nsr50wj25" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-cmp-implied-consent-or-zero-tolerance", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "chemical-tests", "underage-drinking" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 724: Implied Consent", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.724.htm" }, "prompt": "Which describes implied consent in Texas, rather than zero tolerance?", "correct": { "caption": "A person arrested for intoxicated driving is deemed to have agreed to give breath or blood specimens" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "A minor commits an offense by driving in a public place with any detectable amount of alcohol" }, "explanation": "Implied consent follows an arrest for operating a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated, or for the minor offense, and deems the person to have consented to give breath or blood specimens. Zero tolerance is the minor offense itself: driving with any detectable amount of alcohol.", "uid": "deggxw15h4izk" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-minimum-liability-coverage", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 601: Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.601.htm" }, "title": "Texas Financial Responsibility and Minimum Coverage", "body": "A person may not operate a motor vehicle in Texas unless financial responsibility is established by a policy, bond, deposit or self-insurance. As of 30 October 2026, the Texas **minimum liability coverage** includes $30,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person, $60,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons and $25,000 for property of others. Each is for one collision and has been in force since 1 January 2011.", "uid": "6czxtfvg45rn" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-stopping-for-an-officer", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "police-stops" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Stopping for a Police Officer in Texas", "body": "A Texas driver must stop when a police officer gives a visual or audible signal. For the stop itself, the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) lists ten **suggested steps** to help the driver stop safely for the officer, beginning with slowing down and moving to the right and ending with signaling and re-entering traffic once the officer releases the driver. They include telling the officer if the driver is transporting any type of weapon and saying where documents are before reaching for them.", "uid": "z509whda6b2b" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-liability-one-and-two-persons", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 601: Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.601.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "As of 30 October 2026, which pair of amounts is the Texas minimum liability coverage for bodily injury to or death of one person, then of two or more persons, in one collision?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "$25,000, then $60,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$30,000, then $25,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$30,000, then $60,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "$60,000, then $30,000" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Texas minimum is $30,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person and $60,000 for two or more persons in one collision. The $25,000 figure is for property of others, so it does not belong in either person limit.", "uid": "1d1si8m16ys1x4" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-financial-responsibility-ways", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 601: Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.601.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A person may not operate a motor vehicle in Texas unless financial responsibility is established. Which statement about the ways to establish it is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A policy, bond, deposit or vehicle registration each counts", "short": "Registration counts too" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A policy, bond, deposit or self-insurance each counts", "short": "Self-insurance counts too" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A policy or deposit counts, but a bond does not", "short": "A bond does not count" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A policy or self-insurance counts, but a deposit does not", "short": "A deposit does not count" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Texas lets financial responsibility be established by a policy, bond, deposit or self-insurance, so each of the four counts. An insurance policy is only one of the ways, and vehicle registration is not among them.", "uid": "lh793s1cahc1q" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-first-suggested-step", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "police-stops" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A police officer signals a Texas driver to stop. Which is the first of the ten suggested steps that the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7) lists for the stop?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver parks as far to the right as possible", "short": "Parks as far right as possible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver turns on the hazard lights", "short": "Turns on the hazard lights" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver says where documents are before reaching for them", "short": "Says where documents are" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver slows down and moves to the right", "short": "Slows and moves to the right" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "DL-7 lists slowing down and moving to the right first, and parking as far to the right as possible comes next. Turning on the hazard lights and saying where documents are come later in the list, and DL-7 calls all ten steps suggested.", "uid": "13teppc1my7vqc" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-c-property-coverage", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "insurance" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 601: Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.601.htm" }, "template": "As of 30 October 2026, the Texas minimum liability coverage includes $25,000 for ___ in one collision.", "answer": "property of others", "distractors": [ "one person", "two or more persons", "the driver's own vehicle" ], "explanation": "The $25,000 minimum is for property of others in one collision. Bodily injury to or death of one person is $30,000 and of two or more persons is $60,000, and the coverage is for others, not for the driver's own vehicle.", "uid": "1uw52tf226uwf" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-stop-and-give-information", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties", "license-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "title": "Stopping First, Then Information and Help", "body": "After a Texas collision likely to injure or kill, the driver must **stop immediately at the scene** or as close to it as possible, and return to the scene if the vehicle has not stopped there. Stopping comes first; the code lists the later duties without stating a sequence. Under section 550.023, the driver gives a name, an address, the vehicle's registration number and the name of the driver's liability insurer, shows a driver's license if it is requested and available, and gives reasonable help. These duties protect other people on the road when a crash happens.", "uid": "12lu21ap7m1lo" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-remain-and-freeway-move", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "title": "Remaining at the Scene, and the Freeway Exception", "body": "A Texas driver in a collision that results or is reasonably likely to result in injury or death must **remain at the scene** until complying with section 550.023. A damage-only collision, one damaging only a vehicle driven or attended by a person, brings the same duty, except on a metropolitan-area freeway where each vehicle involved can be normally and safely driven: there each driver must move the vehicle as soon as possible to a designated collision investigation site if available, a location on the frontage road, the nearest suitable cross street or another suitable location.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Clean top-down diagram of a multi-lane freeway running beside a parallel frontage road joined by a cross street: two small cars that have bumped each other are shown after being driven off the freeway onto the frontage road. Flat vector style, no text, no people, no readable marks on the cars.", "imageSearchTerm": "freeway frontage road diagram", "alt": "Two cars moved from a metropolitan freeway collision onto the frontage road, with boxes stating the duty to remain and the freeway exception.", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx5-f-remain-and-freeway-move.5634ae87.svg" }, "uid": "1t6pwjs1v8k8e" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-f-notify-police", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "title": "Whom a Texas Driver Notifies After a Collision", "body": "In Texas, the driver of a vehicle in a collision that injures or kills a person or leaves a vehicle unable to be driven normally and safely must **notify police** immediately, by the quickest means. In a municipality, that means the local police department. Not more than 100 feet outside the limits of a municipality, it means the local police department or the sheriff's office. Anywhere else, it means the sheriff's office or the nearest Department of Public Safety office.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat map-style diagram: a rounded municipality outline, a thin ring around it for not more than 100 feet outside the limits, and the area beyond, each zone with a callout naming whom to notify. Short labels, not to scale.", "imageSearchTerm": "who to notify after collision city limits sheriff diagram", "alt": "Map: a municipality (local police), up to 100 ft outside it (local police or sheriff), elsewhere (sheriff or nearest Department of Public Safety office).", "kind": "diagram", "subjectType": "scene", "credit": "FlashFeed original diagram ยท CC-BY-4.0", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/drivers-permit/diagrams/dp-tx5-f-notify-police.42bfe1c0.svg" }, "uid": "7ka6q01gopf8o" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-first-duty-after-crash", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "After a Texas collision likely to injure or kill, which duty comes first?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver stops at the scene or as close to it as possible", "short": "Stops at or near the scene" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver shows the license if requested and available", "short": "License on request, if available" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver notifies police if anyone was hurt", "short": "Notifies police if anyone hurt" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The driver gives name, address and insurer information", "short": "Gives name, address, insurer" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Stopping comes first. The Texas code lists the later duties, such as giving information, showing the license and notifying police, without stating a sequence, so only the stop is fixed as first.", "uid": "1sdhjw2hvywno" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-freeway-damage-only", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Two vehicles collide on a Texas metropolitan-area freeway, damaging only the vehicles, and each can be normally and safely driven. What must each driver do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Each driver remains where the vehicle stopped", "short": "Remains where it stopped" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Each driver drives away since only the vehicles are damaged", "short": "Drives away: vehicle damage only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Each driver moves the vehicle as soon as possible", "short": "Moves it as soon as possible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Each driver moves the vehicle only after police allow it", "short": "Moves only after police allow it" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "On a metropolitan-area freeway, when each vehicle involved can be normally and safely driven, each driver must move the vehicle as soon as possible to an investigation site if available, the frontage road, the nearest suitable cross street or another suitable location, not stay put.", "uid": "vqipnp1srfrhl" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-q-notify-police-municipality", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A collision that injures a person happens inside a Texas municipality. Whom must the driver notify immediately, by the quickest means?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The sheriff's office" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The local police department" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The nearest Department of Public Safety office", "short": "Nearest Public Safety office" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Texas Department of Transportation", "short": "Transportation department" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Inside a municipality the driver notifies the local police department. The sheriff's office is named only for collisions outside a municipality, and the nearest Department of Public Safety office only for collisions more than 100 feet outside one.", "uid": "1swjpyc13thayw" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-c-information-to-give", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "template": "Under section 550.023, a Texas driver in a collision gives a name, an address, the vehicle's registration number and the name of the driver's ___.", "answer": "liability insurer", "distractors": [ "health insurer", "vehicle lender", "current employer" ], "explanation": "The code has a Texas driver in a collision give a name, an address, the vehicle's registration number and the name of the driver's liability insurer. A health insurer, a vehicle lender or a current employer is not on that list.", "uid": "1dely35mkdi63" }, { "id": "dp-tx5-tf-return-to-the-scene", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "crash-duties" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 550: Accidents and Accident Reports", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.550.htm" }, "statement": "A Texas driver whose vehicle has not stopped at the scene of a collision likely to injure or kill must return to the scene.", "isTrue": true, "why": "After a Texas collision likely to injure or kill, the driver must stop immediately at the scene or as close to it as possible, and must also return if the vehicle has not stopped there.", "uid": "whl1uqqjf2jo" }, { "id": "dp-tx6-f-gdl-route", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "learner-permit", "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division โ€” Texas Driver Handbook, DL-7, revised January 2026", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/Internetforms/Forms/DL-7.pdf" }, "title": "The Texas Graduated Driver License Route", "body": "Texas licenses minors through the **Graduated Driver License (GDL) program**, which the Texas handbook describes in two phases: the learner license and the provisional license. The route from permit to license includes the driver education classroom phase, the learner license, at least six months of holding it while practicing with a supervising driver, the in-car hours and the Impact Texas Teen Drivers program, and the driving test for the provisional license. Texas law fixes only part of that order.", "uid": "1ost4qg6inh08" }, { "id": "dp-tx6-f-learner-license", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 521: Driver's Licenses and Certificates", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.521.htm" }, "title": "Who Can Get a Texas Learner License", "body": "A Texas **learner license**, also called an instruction permit, goes to a person who is 15 or older but under 18, has passed the classroom phase of an approved driver education course, meets the school-attendance rule and has passed each exam except the driving test. A Texas learner license can be issued from age 15. The Texas handbook words the age range differently, but the Transportation Code's wording is the rule.", "uid": "80c9k3cqxgab" }, { "id": "dp-tx6-f-supervising-driver", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "supervised-driving", "learner-permit" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 521: Driver's Licenses and Certificates", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.521.htm" }, "title": "Supervision and the Six-Month Hold", "body": "A Texas learner license holder may drive only with a **supervising driver**, a person in the seat next to the operator who is licensed for that vehicle, is 21 or older and has a year or more of driving experience. A learner license holder who is accompanied as the Transportation Code requires is exempt from the driving-hours and passenger limits. A Texas learner or hardship license must be held for six months or more before a Class A, B or C license, other than a hardship license, can be issued to a person under 18.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "A teenage driver behind the wheel of a car with an adult in the passenger seat beside them, both wearing seat belts. 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The night hours are part of the 30, not extra. The page also lists 7 hours of in-car observation and 7 hours of in-car driving as separate requirements. A DPS page dated 29 September 2020 gives a Texas teen driver education course 24 classroom hours.", "illustration": { "imagePrompt": "Flat diagram of horizontal bars drawn to one scale: a 30-hour practice bar with a 10-hour night segment shaded inside it, and two separate 7-hour bars for in-car observation and in-car driving. 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Except for a hardship license, it also requires a learner or hardship license held for at least six months. A Texas hardship license can be issued when a necessity to drive is established, and its applicant is exempt from holding a learner license for six months first.", "uid": "8dbdx71ccc4zj" }, { "id": "dp-tx6-f-limits-under-18", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "teen-limits", "provisional-license" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545: Operation and Movement of Vehicles", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.545.htm" }, "title": "Limits for Texas Drivers Under 18", "body": "A Texas learner license lets the holder drive only with a qualified supervisor beside them, while a provisional license allows driving alone with limits on night hours and passengers. 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The Spanish-language examination is identical to the English one except that directions and written material are in Spanish, and the text of highway signs stays in English. 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A score of 75 percent passes but is not the lowest, and 60 or 65 percent falls short.", "uid": "1uscyas1hqplpq" }, { "id": "dp-tx6-q-three-tries", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "knowledge-test" ], "source": { "label": "Texas Legislature โ€” Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 521: Driver's Licenses and Certificates", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/htm/TN.521.htm" }, "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many tries at each element of the examination does a Texas applicant get per application?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1 try" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "2 tries" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "3 tries" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4 tries" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "A Texas applicant gets three tries at each element of the examination per application, which the Transportation Code words as three examinations of each element. 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