When should you yield your legal right-of-way?
- Often, even at controlled intersections.
- Whenever it helps prevent collisions. ✓
- Never. It confuses other drivers.
Answer: B. Whenever it helps prevent collisions.
You should give up your legal right-of-way whenever it helps prevent collisions.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's right-of-way section says the vehicle that arrives first has the right-of-way, but it also warns you never to assume other drivers will give you yours. It then tells you directly to give up your right-of-way when doing so will help prevent a collision. The other listed causes of collisions include not following right-of-way rules, so yielding is a way to stay out of that group.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Often, even at controlled intersections. — The handbook gives up the right-of-way only when it helps prevent a collision, not routinely at controlled intersections where signs, signals, and arrival order decide who goes first.
- C. Never. It confuses other drivers. — Refusing to yield is the opposite of the handbook's advice, which tells you to give up your right-of-way when that will help prevent collisions.
Remember it
Right-of-way is something you can hand over, not something to insist on; treat arriving first as a rule for order, not a hill to stand on.