Permit Practice

Following too closely behind a vehicle is known as ...

• parking too close
• driving too fast
• changing lanes abruptly
• tailgating

If a vehicle behind you is following you too closely (tailgating you), you should

• Make a sudden turn to confuse the tailgater.
• Move into the right lane and reduce your speed

• Brake suddenly to scare the tailgater away.
• Ignore the tailgater and maintain your speed.

What should you do 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)?

• Accelerate to lose the tailgater.
• Pull over and let the tailgater pass

• Brake suddenly to scare the driver behind you.
• Make a sudden turn to confuse the tailgater.

When parked facing uphill on the right side of the road with a curb, you should steer

• straight ahead
• away from the curb

• toward the curb
• to the left side of the road

Before pulling out from a right-side parallel parking space, you must

• check for approaching traffic and give a left-turn signal

• turn the steering wheel sharply right
• accelerate quickly out of the space
• signal left before moving

If you are parallel parked on the right side of a street, you should before you pull out into traffic.

• look over your left shoulder and signal a left turn

• signal with your hand
• honk your horn
• accelerate quickly

If traffic from another roadway is merging onto the roadway you are traveling on, you must

• Change lanes immediately without checking.
• Accelerate to merge faster.
• Stop and wait for a signal.
• adjust your speed and vehicle position to allow the traffic to merge

At the end of a freeway on-ramp, there is usually .... that allows you to increase your speed.

• a traffic light
• a stop sign
• a speed bump
• an acceleration lane

A typical passenger car can start hydroplaning at speeds as low as ...

• 25 mph
• 50 mph
• 60 mph
• 35 mph

While getting onto a freeway, you reach the end of the acceleration lane. At this point, you should be traveling .

• at a complete stop
• significantly below the speed limit
• as close as possible to the speed of freeway traffic.

• in the opposite direction of traffic