If two vehicles arrive to an uncontrolled intersection at the same time:
- The largest vehicle has the right-of-way.
- The car on the left has the right-of-way.
- The car on the left shall yield to the car on the right. ✓
- The car on the right shall yield to the car on the left.
Answer: C. The car on the left shall yield to the car on the right.
When two vehicles reach an uncontrolled intersection at the same time, the car on the left must yield to the car on the right.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook states the rule plainly: if two vehicles arrive at the same time, you yield to the vehicle on your right. Put yourself in the driver's seat on the left-hand approach — the other car sits on your right, so you wait and let it go first. The driver on the right simply proceeds. That single rule settles who moves and who holds back, so there is no guessing and no relying on who got there a split second earlier.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. The largest vehicle has the right-of-way. — Vehicle size has nothing to do with it; the handbook bases the decision on which side the other car is on, not on how big it is.
- B. The car on the left has the right-of-way. — This reverses the rule — the handbook says to yield to the vehicle on your right, so the left-hand car does not get the right-of-way.
- D. The car on the right shall yield to the car on the left. — This turns the rule upside down; it is the car on the left that yields, not the car on the right.
Remember it
Picture yourself at the stop line: whoever sits to your right goes first, so if another car's driver-side mirror is on your right, you wait.