What must a driver do before entering a highway from a private road or driveway?
- Enter or cross the highway as quickly as possible
- Yield right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the highway ✓
- Give a hand signal then assume right-of -way
- Sound the horn and proceed with caution
Answer: B. Yield right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the highway
Before entering a highway from a private road or driveway, you must yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the highway.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's entering-a-roadway rule says that when pulling out of a driveway, alley or parking lot onto a road, you stop before the sidewalk or area where pedestrians may be walking. Then you pull out carefully, yielding to traffic on the road and waiting for a safe gap. That directly matches yielding right-of-way to vehicles approaching on the highway. It also says drivers entering a road from a driveway or alley must yield to pedestrians.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Enter or cross the highway as quickly as possible — Entering or crossing as quickly as possible conflicts with the handbook's instruction to pull out carefully and wait for a safe gap while yielding to road traffic.
- C. Give a hand signal then assume right-of -way — A hand signal does not give you the right-of-way; the handbook says you must yield to traffic on the road when entering it.
- D. Sound the horn and proceed with caution — The handbook does not say to sound the horn here; it says to stop before the sidewalk or pedestrian area, then pull out carefully while yielding to traffic.
Remember it
Picture road traffic as having the first turn — your driveway has to wait for a safe gap.