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 the car on the roadway to warn 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
When entering a roadway from a private road, you must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and roadway traffic.
Why this is the answer
The New York manual says a vehicle entering a roadway from a driveway, alley, private road, or other place that is not a roadway must stop and yield the right-of-way to traffic on the roadway and to pedestrians. That matches yielding to pedestrians and roadway traffic. The manual does not tell you to warn drivers with your horn, stop partly in the roadway, or drive out fast; it says to stop and give way before entering.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Blow your horn to warn cars you are entering the roadway — Blowing your horn is not what the manual requires here; the rule is to stop and yield to traffic and pedestrians.
- B. Stop with part of the car on the roadway to warn other drivers — Stopping with part of your car on the roadway would put you in the path of traffic you are supposed to yield to, not warn drivers.
- C. Drive out fast to merge smoothly with the traffic — Driving out fast does not satisfy the requirement to stop and yield; it conflicts with giving way to roadway traffic and pedestrians.
Remember it
Think of a private road as the place where you wait: stop, then let people and traffic already on the road go first.