When entering the interstate, check for a gap in traffic in the nearest lane, adjust your speed to match traffic, signal, and:
- Expect traffic to allow you to proceed into the lane, since you have the right-of-way.
- Merge carefully into the gap. ✓
- Wait for the lane to clear before merging.
Answer: B. Merge carefully into the gap.
After checking for a gap, matching traffic speed and signaling, you merge carefully into the gap.
Why this is the answer
The manual's expressway section tells you to find a large space in traffic, then enter and accelerate quickly. It also says to stop when necessary and merge into expressway traffic as soon as possible to avoid conflicts with other entrance lane traffic. So the entry ramp is a place to fit yourself into an opening, not a place to claim the lane. You pick the gap, match the speed of the cars already there, signal, and slide in carefully.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Expect traffic to allow you to proceed into the lane, since you have the right-of-way. — Nothing in the handbook gives entering traffic the right-of-way; the manual actually tells you to stop when necessary and merge, which means the cars already on the expressway are the ones you must fit around.
- C. Wait for the lane to clear before merging. — The manual says to merge as soon as possible into a large space, so waiting for the whole lane to empty is not what it asks for and would leave you stuck on the ramp.
Remember it
Think of the ramp as a running start, not a claim: pick an opening, match the speed, and join the flow.