If your car becomes disabled while on the highway, you should:

1. Stop in the right lane.
2. Park with all four wheels off the traveled highway, if possible. ✓
3. Stop where you are.

Answer: B. Park with all four wheels off the traveled highway, if possible.

If your car becomes disabled on the highway, park with all four wheels off the traveled highway whenever you can.

Why this is the answer

The handbook's emergency section says that once you have your vehicle under control, you should continue slowing down and pull off the road where and when it is safe. It also warns against suddenly braking or jerking the wheel, because that can cost you control of the car. So the goal is to get the vehicle clear of the traffic lanes rather than leave it sitting where traffic is moving, and to move off only when doing so is safe.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. Stop in the right lane. — Stopping in the right lane leaves your car sitting in a lane traffic is using, which is the opposite of the handbook's advice to pull off the road.
• C. Stop where you are. — Stopping where you are keeps the disabled car in the path of moving traffic instead of getting it off the road as the handbook describes.

Remember it

Think off the road, not on it: get the whole car clear of the travel lanes before you deal with the problem.