US Permit Test — Right-of-Way & Intersections flashcards
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Who yields at uncontrolled intersections, stop and yield signs, left turns, crosswalks, emergency vehicles, school buses, roundabouts, driveways, railroad crossings and when passing; national rules only.
Practice deck · part of US driver's permit test — national core · written against: Signs per the FHWA MUTCD 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), whose figures for these signs are unchanged from December 2023; rules of the road common to every state handbook, cross-checked against the California (2025), Texas (January 2026) and Florida (08/2023) handbooks; figures that vary by state are left to the state folders. Updated 2026-10-10.
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Two vehicles arrive together at an intersection of two similar roads that has no signs or signals, one on each road. Who must yield?
A) The driver on the left
B) The driver on the right
C) The driver who is turning
D) The larger vehicle's driverA) The driver on the leftUncontrolled Intersections
When drivers on equal roads arrive together, the one on the left gives way to the one on the right. -
You are turning left on a green light with no arrow. What do you do?
A) Turn first, because you have a green light
B) Turn on yellow, whatever oncoming traffic is doing
C) Flash your lights so oncoming drivers stop
D) Wait for a safe gap in oncoming traffic, then turnD) Wait for a safe gap in oncoming traffic, then turnTurning & Left Turns
A green light lets you turn only after yielding to oncoming vehicles and to pedestrians in the crosswalk. -
You are on a two-lane, two-way road when an ambulance with lights and siren comes up behind you. What must you do?
A) Pull to the right edge and stop
B) Speed up to get out of its way
C) Stop right where you are in your lane
D) Pull to the left edge and slow downEmergency Vehicles
A) Pull to the right edge and stop
Get out of its path by moving to the right edge as soon as you safely can and stopping, then wait there until it has gone by. -
You are about to enter a roundabout. Who has the right of way?
A) You, because you are entering from the right
B) Vehicles waiting at the other entrances
C) Whoever reaches the yield line first
D) Vehicles already circulating in the roundaboutRoundabouts & Merging
D) Vehicles already circulating in the roundabout
Entering traffic yields to traffic already in the circle; older traffic circles, such as New Jersey's, may instead give priority by signs or by the main road's flow. -
The gates are down, but you see no train. What do you do?
A) Drive around the gate if the tracks look clear
B) Cross slowly while looking both ways
C) Proceed if no train is visible in either direction
D) Stop and wait until the gates rise and lights stopD) Stop and wait until the gates rise and lights stopRailroad Crossings
Never drive around a lowered gate; a train may be closer and faster than it looks, or hidden from view. -
A funeral procession is crossing ahead of you. What should you do?
A) Merge into the procession to save time
B) Wait and do not cut into the procession
C) Pass the procession on the left
D) Sound your horn so it moves fasterB) Wait and do not cut into the processionSpecial Situations
Do not drive between the vehicles of a funeral procession; let it pass as a group.
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Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Checked against the rules shared by the California Driver's Handbook (2025 online edition), the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7, revised January 2026) and the Official Florida Driver License Handbook (rev. 08/2023); wording is original.
- Pictures (the folder's media/): intersection, crosswalk, emergency-vehicle, school-bus, roundabout, driveway, railroad and passing scenes drawn by tools/diagrams/us_permit_test_core.py with markings after the MUTCD 11th Edition (2023); the signs in them and the YIELD, NO TURN ON RED, crossbuck and flagger pictures are drawn after the MUTCD's figures by tools/draw_signs.mjs, to the FHWA Standard Highway Signs (public domain; mutcd-ts 0.2.5 vector sign data, MIT license; see media/sources.json).
- Where a card names a state's own rule, it was checked against that state's law in force on 2026-10-18; where a handbook and the law differ, the card follows the law and says what the handbook says.
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