If your hood flies up when you are driving
- look through the crack below the hood and stop as soon as you can ✓
- look in your mirrors and ask a passenger to lean out the window and look ahead
- stop immediately so that you don't run into anyone
- reach out the window to push the hood down
Answer: A. look through the crack below the hood and stop as soon as you can
Look through the crack below the hood and stop as soon as you can.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's hood-flying-up procedure starts with not panicking and finding a view: look through the gap under the hood or open your window and look where you are going. Then take your foot off the accelerator, turn on hazard lights, pump the brakes to warn traffic behind, and steer to the side of the road. That matches looking through the crack below the hood and stopping as soon as you can, but doing it in a controlled way rather than freezing or stopping in the travel lane.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. look in your mirrors and ask a passenger to lean out the window and look ahead — Mirrors and a passenger leaning out are not part of the handbook procedure; you need to keep a view of the road ahead and control the car.
- C. stop immediately so that you don't run into anyone — Stopping immediately where you are is not what the handbook says; it lists easing off the accelerator, hazard lights, braking to warn others, and steering to the side.
- D. reach out the window to push the hood down — Reaching out the window is not in the handbook and would take a hand off the wheel instead of following the controlled pull-over steps.
Remember it
Crack, coast, hazards, curb: find a sliver of view, ease off the gas, warn others, and get to the side.