Signals and lights questions
What to do at every kind of traffic light: solid, arrow, flashing and dark, the red and yellow X signals over reversible lanes, push-button crosswalk signals, and when to use and dim your headlights.
Each question below covers one rule from the Maryland Driver's Manual. Answer it, see why the other answers are wrong, and follow the link to the manual page.
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14 questions
- Steady red light: stop, right turn may follow
- Red arrow: no turn until it changes
- Flashing red light: stop, then go
- Flashing yellow light: slow down
- Low beams 500 feet before oncoming cars
- Low beams within 300 feet of a car you follow
- Signal before the turn
- Traffic light not working
- When headlights must be on
- Red X over a lane
- Steady yellow X: leave the lane
- Flashing yellow X: left turns
- Flashing red at a railroad crossing
- Push-button crosswalk signals
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