When approaching a roundabout, you should always:
- Increase your speed.
- Maintain your speed.
- Come to a complete stop.
- Decrease your speed. ✓
Answer: D. Decrease your speed.
You should decrease your speed as you approach a roundabout.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook's roundabout steps begin with slowing down as you approach the intersection, then yielding to traffic already in the circle and entering when there is an acceptable gap. It also says to observe posted advisory speed signs. That makes reducing speed the proper approach; increasing or holding speed does not match the handbook's instruction. The handbook does not say to always come to a complete stop before entering.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Increase your speed. — Increasing your speed goes against the handbook's first roundabout step, which is to slow down as you approach.
- B. Maintain your speed. — Keeping the same speed ignores the handbook's instruction to slow down before the roundabout.
- C. Come to a complete stop. — The handbook does not require a complete stop every time; it says to slow down, yield to traffic in the circle, and enter when there is an acceptable gap.
Remember it
Slow on approach, yield to circle traffic, enter when clear.