A driver entering public traffic from a driveway or private road:
- Has the right-of-way.
- Should yield to drivers already on the public road. ✓
- May force their way into traffic.
- Can assume that other drivers will change lanes to make room.
Answer: B. Should yield to drivers already on the public road.
A driver entering public traffic from a driveway or private road must yield to drivers already on the public road.
Why this is the answer
The handbook rule for driveways is written plainly: if you are coming out of a driveway, alley, or roadside, vehicles already on the main road have the right-of-way over you. The same passage adds that you also yield to pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk or in bike lanes. So the decision is made for you before you ever move — you wait for the traffic on the road to clear, then you join it.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Has the right-of-way. — The handbook says the opposite: entering drivers must yield, so the right-of-way belongs to the vehicles already on the main road, not to you.
- C. May force their way into traffic. — Pushing your way into traffic ignores the requirement to yield to vehicles already on the main road, so it is not a permitted choice.
- D. Can assume that other drivers will change lanes to make room. — Nothing in the passages gives an entering driver any claim on other drivers' lane changes; the duty to yield rests with the driver leaving the driveway.
Remember it
Think of the main road as the line you are joining at the back: the vehicles already in line go first, and you wait for a gap.