US Permit Test — Road Signs: Regulatory & Warning flashcards
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Identify the regulatory (white, red) and warning (yellow) signs every state tests, each shown as a picture: STOP and YIELD, speed, turn and lane controls, passing, one-way, parking, curves, intersections, lane changes, surface hazards and crossings. National designs per the MUTCD.
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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What does this sign require you to do?
A) Stop completely, then go when the way is clear
B) Slow down, and go on if no traffic is close
C) Stop only if another vehicle is approaching
D) Yield, stopping only for traffic from the rightA) Stop completely, then go when the way is clearRegulatory Signs › Stop & Yield
The red octagon always means a full stop at the stop line, the crosswalk or the edge of the intersection, even when nothing is coming. -
At this sign, when must you come to a full stop?
A) Every time, just as at a STOP sign
B) When traffic or pedestrians leave you no safe gap
C) Never; this sign only ever asks you to slow down
D) Only when another vehicle has stopped ahead of youB) When traffic or pedestrians leave you no safe gapRegulatory Signs › Stop & Yield
A yield sign means slow down and give way to traffic and pedestrians with the right-of-way; you stop only when they leave you no safe gap. -
Your STOP sign has no plaque like this. What about cross traffic?
A) It has to stop too, just as you do
B) It must yield to you once you have stopped
C) It may not stop, so wait for a safe gap
D) It faces a YIELD sign and must slow downC) It may not stop, so wait for a safe gapRegulatory Signs › Stop & Yield
Only an ALL WAY plaque tells you that every approach has a STOP sign; without one, cross traffic may keep going, so wait for a safe gap. -
What does this sign mean?
A) The road turns sharply to the left ahead
B) Turn left at the next intersection
C) The left lane ends just past the sign
D) Traffic must merge to the left laneA) The road turns sharply to the left aheadWarning Signs › Alignment
A turn sign warns of a sharp bend, tighter than a curve sign shows, so slow down before it; it often carries an advisory speed plaque. -
What does this sign mean?
A) A left turn is required ahead
B) The road curves to the left
C) Keep left of the median ahead
D) A left exit ramp is aheadB) The road curves to the leftWarning Signs › Alignment
A curve sign is the gentler cousin of the turn sign; ease off before the bend rather than braking in it. -
What does this sign mean?
A) The road is slippery when wet
B) The road winds for several miles
C) A divided highway begins ahead
D) A curve left, then a curve rightD) A curve left, then a curve rightWarning Signs › Alignment
Two curves in opposite directions follow one another closely; read the arrow from the bottom, and its first bend shows which way the road turns first.
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- Sign designs, names and meanings checked against the FHWA Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), a public-domain US government work; sign pictures drawn as vector art to the FHWA Standard Highway Signs and laid out after that manual's figures (the folder's media/, by tools/draw_signs.mjs; signs in the mutcd-ts 0.2.5 catalog of the 2024 Standard Highway Signs, MIT license, are drawn from it; media/sources.json gives each picture's source).
- Meanings cross-checked against the sign chapters of 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.
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