At a four-way stop:
- The driver to arrive first has the right-of-way. ✓
- The driver to arrive last has the right-of-way.
- One driver should continue driving without stopping.
- One driver should wave the other drivers ahead.
Answer: A. The driver to arrive first has the right-of-way.
The driver who arrives first has the right-of-way at a four-way stop.
Why this is the answer
The handbook describes an all-way stop as a place where traffic from every direction must stop. It then says cars move through in the order they got there, and the earliest car at the sign is supposed to go first. That is why the earliest arrival has the right-of-way. When cars arrive at about the same time, the handbook adds that each driver yields to the driver on the right. So the answer depends on arrival order, not on waiting longest after stopping.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The driver to arrive last has the right-of-way. — The handbook gives priority to the earliest arrival, not the latest one, so the last driver to arrive does not get the right-of-way.
- C. One driver should continue driving without stopping. — An all-way stop requires traffic from every direction to stop, so no driver should simply continue through without stopping.
- D. One driver should wave the other drivers ahead. — The handbook does not say to wave others ahead; it sets the order by arrival, with drivers yielding to the right when they arrive at about the same time.
Remember it
Think of the stop as a short queue: remember who got to the sign first, and for a tie look to your right.