permit test

• "cheat sheet"


  A quick reference or ready reference of the most important or frequently used items
• Tailgating


  Following too closely behind a vehicle
• If a vehicle behind you is following you too closely (tailgating you)

  Move into the right lane and reduce your speed
• If you're driving on a two-way road with one lane going in each direction, and another driver is following you too closely (tailgating you)

  Pull over and let the tailgater pass
• When parked facing uphill on the right side of the road with a curb

  You should steer away from the curb
• Before pulling out from a right-side parallel parking space

  Check for approaching traffic and give a left-turn signal
• If you are parallel parked on the right side of a street


  Look over your left shoulder and signal a left turn before you pull out into traffic
• If traffic from another roadway is merging onto the roadway you are traveling on


  Adjust your speed and vehicle position to allow the traffic to merge
• Acceleration lane


  At the end of a freeway on-ramp, it allows you to increase your speed
• Hydroplaning


  When there is standing water on a roadway, your tires may start to lose contact with the road and ride over the water
• When you reach the end of a freeway acceleration lane

  You should be traveling as close as possible to the speed of freeway traffic
• Exit ramps


  Designed to allow drivers to slow down and leave the expressways
• If you double your speed on a highway

  Your braking distance will be four times as long
• When there is water on the roadway

  You must reduce your speed to avoid hydroplaning
• On a three-lane highway, a driver towing a trailer keeps to the right

  Because it is a slow-moving vehicle
• If you are being passed

  You should not increase your speed until the pass is complete
• When you exit from a high-speed, two-lane roadway, if traffic is following you


  You should not slow down too suddenly
• Construction zones usually have reduced speed limits
• If there are no reduced speed limits posted at work zones
• When passing a stopped emergency vehicle


  Slow down to less than the posted speed limit and move into a non-adjacent lane
• The rightmost lane


  Must be used by slower-moving vehicles
• On steep downgrades


  You should use a lower gear to control your speed
• A triangular red-and-white road sign


  Indicates you must reduce your speed and yield
• A pentagon-shaped traffic sign


  Indicates a school zone is ahead
• A flashing red traffic light


  Should be treated as a stop sign
• When approaching an intersection controlled by a stop sign


  You must stop just behind the indicated stop line
• When approaching an intersection with a steady yellow signal


  You must come to an immediate stop if it is safe to do so
• Flashing arrow panels and flashing message signs


  Are mobile devices used to give drivers advance warning of work zones and other unusual conditions
• The hand signal for a left turn

  Hand and arm extended outward
• The hand signal to indicate that you are stopping

  Left arm out the window and pointing down
• Warning signs


  Indicate potentially hazardous conditions ahead
• The hand signal for making a right turn

  Left hand and arm extended upward
• A red arrow signal at an intersection


  Indicates that turning vehicles must stop
• Vertical rectangular signs with black letters on a white background

  Are regulatory signs
• A flashing yellow signal at an intersection


  Means you should slow down and proceed through the intersection carefully
• A triangular reflective orange sign on the rear of a vehicle


  Indicates a slow-moving vehicle, you should slow down and use caution
• If you are moving through an intersection with a green light and a pedestrian starts to cross your path against a red light


  You should first sound your horn to warn the pedestrian
• At a steady yellow traffic signal

  You should stop if it is safe to do so, the signal will soon turn red
• On a road with only two lanes of traffic


  You may not pass another vehicle except when there is a broken yellow line next to your lane
• If you spot an oncoming vehicle while you are waiting to turn left at an intersection


  You must yield the right-of-way to the oncoming vehicle