An intersection has no traffic signs or signals. You arrive at the same time as a vehicle to your right. You should:
- Speed up and get through the intersection.
- Slow down and yield to the vehicle on your right. ✓
- Drive into the intersection and make the other vehicle stop.
- Honk your horn and drive through the intersection.
Answer: B. Slow down and yield to the vehicle on your right.
Slow down and yield to the vehicle on your right when you and another driver reach an unsignalized intersection at the same time.
Why this is the answer
The Texas Driver Handbook gives a simple tie-breaker for intersections: when two vehicles arrive at the same moment, the driver on the left yields to the vehicle on the right. Slowing down is part of that, because you cannot give way to the other car while holding your speed into the crossing. The handbook also frames right-of-way as something a driver gives rather than takes, so the safe habit is to ease off and let the vehicle on your right go first.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Speed up and get through the intersection. — Speeding up to beat the other car is the opposite of yielding, and it removes the time you need to react if the other driver also moves.
- C. Drive into the intersection and make the other vehicle stop. — Entering the intersection and expecting the other vehicle to stop takes the right-of-way instead of giving it, which is not how the handbook describes right-of-way.
- D. Honk your horn and drive through the intersection. — Honking does not settle who goes first, and the handbook rule is to yield to the vehicle on your right, not to signal it out of the way.
Remember it
No signs, same time? Think right over left: the car on the right goes first, so you ease off the gas.
Official handbook: Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7), Chapter 5: Signals, Signs, and Markers , p. 31