What should you do when you are going to enter a roadway from a private road?
- Blow your horn to warn cars you are entering the roadway.
- Stop with part of your car on the roadway to alert other drivers.
- Drive out fast to merge smoothly with the traffic.
- Yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and roadway traffic. ✓
Answer: D. Yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and roadway traffic.
You must stop and yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and traffic already on the roadway.
Why this is the answer
The handbook treats a private road, driveway, or alley as a place that is not a roadway. A driver coming from there must stop first, then give way to people walking and to vehicles already using the road. That matches yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians and roadway traffic. The rule is about who goes first when you join existing traffic; it does not tell you to warn others with the horn, block part of the road, or hurry out. Stopping and yielding keeps the order of traffic as the handbook describes it.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Blow your horn to warn cars you are entering the roadway. — Honking does not replace the required stop and yield; the handbook says to give way to roadway traffic and pedestrians.
- B. Stop with part of your car on the roadway to alert other drivers. — Stopping with part of your car on the roadway is not the rule; you must stop before entering and yield, not place your car in the road to alert others.
- C. Drive out fast to merge smoothly with the traffic. — Driving out fast conflicts with the requirement to stop and yield to traffic and pedestrians already on the roadway.
Remember it
Private road, public responsibility: look for walkers and cars before your wheels cross the edge.