Signals and lights questions
What to do at every kind of traffic light: solid, arrow, flashing and dark. Also pedestrian signals, your turn signals and hand signals, the horn, headlights and high beams.
Each question below covers one rule from the California Driver Handbook. Answer it, see why the other answers are wrong, and follow the link to the handbook page.
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10 questions
- Solid red light: stop, right turn may follow
- Red arrow: no turn until green
- Flashing red light: stop, then go
- Flashing yellow light: slow down, no stop needed
- Dim high beams within 500 feet of oncoming traffic
- Dim high beams within 300 feet of a car you follow
- Signal at least 100 feet before a turn
- Signal 5 seconds before a freeway lane change
- Traffic light not working
- Flashing yellow arrow: turn after yielding
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