What does a flashing yellow traffic signal light direct a driver to do?
- Stop and proceed when the traffic allows you to proceed safely.
- Slow down and proceed with caution. ✓
- Stop and wait for a flashing green signal.
Answer: B. Slow down and proceed with caution.
Slow down and proceed with caution when a traffic signal light is flashing yellow.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says a flashing yellow light is a warning to proceed carefully, slow down, and stay alert. It also says plainly that you do not need to stop. That matches the choice to slow down and continue cautiously. The flashing yellow signal is not telling you to come to a full stop first, so treating it like a stop signal would be wrong.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Stop and proceed when the traffic allows you to proceed safely. — A flashing yellow light does not require you to stop first; the handbook says you do not need to stop, so stopping and then going when traffic allows describes a different signal.
- C. Stop and wait for a flashing green signal. — Waiting for a flashing green signal is wrong because the handbook says a flashing yellow light tells you to slow down and continue with care, not to stop and wait.
Remember it
Think yellow flash, ease off the gas: slow down and look, with no full stop required.