If an oncoming driver is heading toward you in your lane, you should:
- Blow your horn, steer right, and accelerate.
- Blow your horn, steer left, and brake.
- Blow your horn, steer right, and brake. ✓
- Stay in the center of your lane, blow your horn, and brake.
Answer: C. Blow your horn, steer right, and brake.
Blow your horn, steer right, and brake — slow down and pull over to the right while sounding your horn to warn the other driver.
Why this is the answer
The manual describes a vehicle approaching head-on in your lane: you decrease speed, pull over to the right, and sound your horn to warn the other driver. It also warns against turning into the left lane, because the other driver may suddenly recover and pull back into that lane, which would cause a head-on collision. So slowing down and getting to the right, with the horn to alert the other driver, is the response the handbook gives. Speeding up or moving left goes against what the manual says.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Blow your horn, steer right, and accelerate. — Accelerating is the opposite of the manual's instruction to decrease speed in this situation.
- B. Blow your horn, steer left, and brake. — Steering left is exactly what the manual warns against, since the other driver may recover and swerve back into that lane.
- D. Stay in the center of your lane, blow your horn, and brake. — Staying in the center of your lane leaves you in the path of the oncoming vehicle instead of pulling over to the right.
Remember it
Think of the horn and the right shoulder together — warn with sound, move away to the right, and slow down.