You must yield to other drivers:
- When entering a street from a garage or alley. ✓
- When they are on a road to your left and you have reached an unmarked intersection at the same time.
- When your traffic signal is a green arrow.
- All of the above.
Answer: A. When entering a street from a garage or alley.
You must yield to other drivers when you enter a street from a garage, driveway, alley, or roadside, because vehicles already on the main road have the right of way.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's driveway rule says that a driver coming onto a road from a driveway, alley, or roadside has to give way to vehicles already on the main road, and also to pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk or in a bike lane. So pulling out of a garage, alley, or driveway is a situation where yielding is required. The handbook's list of open-intersection yield situations does not include a car sitting on a road to your left, and it never lists a green arrow as a time to yield.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. When they are on a road to your left and you have reached an unmarked intersection at the same time. — The handbook's open-intersection list covers a vehicle already in the intersection, entering from a secondary road, moving from unpaved to paved road, and a left turn with oncoming traffic, but not a car on your left at the same moment.
- C. When your traffic signal is a green arrow. — A green arrow is not named anywhere among the situations where the handbook says you must yield, and the yield rules it gives are about driveways, alleys, and open intersections.
- D. All of the above. — Since the road-on-your-left situation and the green arrow situation are not yield situations in the handbook, claiming every listed choice is correct does not hold up.
Remember it
Think of yourself as the guest when you leave a driveway, alley, or roadside: traffic already on the main road goes first.