You may park or stop along the shoulder of the freeway:

1. As long as you turn on your four-way (emergency) flashers.
2. If no part of your vehicle is on the road.
3. If you need to look at a map for directions.
4. Only if you have an emergency. ✓

Answer: D. Only if you have an emergency.

You may park or stop along the shoulder of the freeway only if you have an emergency.

Why this is the answer

The Florida handbook's freeway safety reminders say you must never stop on the paved road, the side strip, or a ramp that joins it unless there is an emergency. That covers the freeway shoulder directly. Turning on flashers does not make a routine stop allowed, and checking a map is not an emergency. The same passage also says a broken-down vehicle must be moved completely off the pavement.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. As long as you turn on your four-way (emergency) flashers. — Emergency flashers do not make a shoulder stop allowed; the freeway reminders permit stopping there only when an emergency exists.
• B. If no part of your vehicle is on the road. — The handbook says never stop on the shoulder except in an emergency, so keeping the vehicle off the road is not enough by itself.
• C. If you need to look at a map for directions. — Looking at a map is a routine reason, not an emergency, and the freeway reminders do not permit a shoulder stop for that.

Remember it

Remember it as emergency-only space: flashers alone do not turn the shoulder into a parking spot.