You have the right of way when you are:
- Entering a traffic circle
- Backing out of a driveway
- Leaving a parking space
- Already in a traffic circle ✓
Answer: D. Already in a traffic circle
You have the right of way when you are already in a traffic circle, because the driver approaching the circle has to yield to you.
Why this is the answer
The manual's right-of-way section says plainly that a driver who comes up to a traffic circle or rotary must yield the right-of-way to the drivers who are already in the circle. So the car inside the circle keeps moving and the car waiting at the edge waits. That is the only one of these situations the handbook describes as a right-of-way for you; the manual puts the entering driver in the yielding position, not the driver already circulating.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Entering a traffic circle — Entering a traffic circle is the opposite case: the handbook says the driver approaching the circle must yield to those already in it.
- B. Backing out of a driveway — The passages give no right of way to a driver backing out of a driveway; nothing in them puts other traffic behind you in that situation.
- C. Leaving a parking space — Leaving a parking space is not listed in the passages as a case where you hold the right of way.
Remember it
Picture the circle as owned by the cars already spinning around it; you wait at the edge until there is a gap.