If you are driving on the interstate and pass your exit, you should:

1. Quickly cut across traffic to make your turn.
2. Make a U-turn to go back to the exit.
3. Continue driving and use the next exit. ✓
4. Put your vehicle in reverse to go back to the exit.

Answer: C. Continue driving and use the next exit.

If you pass your exit, keep going and take the next exit.

Why this is the answer

The Florida handbook's rule for leaving a limited access highway is short and firm: get into the exit lane early, signal, slow down in the deceleration lane, and don't make last-minute turns into an exit. It then says plainly that if you pass your exit, you must go to the next one. Doing that keeps you moving with traffic instead of forcing a sudden move from a lane where others aren't expecting it.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. Quickly cut across traffic to make your turn. — Cutting across traffic at the last moment is exactly the last-minute turn into an exit that the handbook tells you not to make.
• B. Make a U-turn to go back to the exit. — The handbook doesn't offer a U-turn as a way to recover a missed exit; it directs you to continue to the next one.
• D. Put your vehicle in reverse to go back to the exit. — Backing up is not the handbook's remedy either; it says a missed exit means you go on to the next exit.

Remember it

Think of a missed exit as a one-way decision: the fix is always ahead of you, never behind.