If you are driving on the interstate and pass your exit, you should:
- Quickly cut across traffic to make your turn.
- Make a U-turn to go back to the exit.
- Continue driving and use the next exit. ✓
- Put your vehicle in reverse to go back to the exit.
Answer: C. Continue driving and use the next exit.
Continue driving and take the next exit instead of trying to get back to the one you missed.
Why this is the answer
The handbook tells you to move into the exit lane well ahead of time, and to shift over earlier when traffic is heavy, since exit signs are posted far in advance. Missing an exit means you did not get into that lane in time, and the safe response is to keep going and use the next one. Nothing in the handbook endorses backing up, turning around, or cutting across lanes on a freeway to recover a missed exit.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Quickly cut across traffic to make your turn. — Cutting across traffic at the last moment is a sudden lane change the handbook's advice to plan your exit early is meant to prevent.
- B. Make a U-turn to go back to the exit. — Making a U-turn on an interstate is not something the handbook describes as a way to get back to an exit you passed.
- D. Put your vehicle in reverse to go back to the exit. — Reversing on a freeway is not described anywhere in the handbook as a way to return to a missed exit.
Remember it
Plan your exit early and treat a missed one as a reason to keep moving forward, not to react suddenly.