If you drive faster than other vehicles on a road with one lane moving in each direction and continually pass the other cars, you will:
- Get you to your destination much more quickly and safely.
- Increase your chances of an collision. ✓
- Help prevent traffic congestion.
Answer: B. Increase your chances of an collision.
You increase your chances of a collision when you continually pass cars because you are traveling faster than the flow of traffic.
Why this is the answer
The California handbook lists travel speed that is above or below the pace of other traffic as one of the most common causes of collisions. It also warns against weaving between lanes and says late lane changes can raise collision risk. Continually passing on a road with one lane in each direction puts you outside the flow and adds passing and lane-change conflict. That matches the handbook's warning rather than showing the trip is safer.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Get you to your destination much more quickly and safely. — Getting to your destination faster and safely is not supported, since the handbook treats speed different from the flow of traffic as a common collision cause.
- C. Help prevent traffic congestion. — Helping prevent congestion is not supported, because weaving and speed that differs from other traffic are linked to collision risk, not to smoother traffic flow.
Remember it
If you are the one constantly passing, you are the one outside the flow.