When exiting a highway, you should slow down:
- On the main road, just before the exit lane.
- Once you see a toll booth.
- Once you have moved into the exit lane. ✓
- When you first see the exit sign.
Answer: C. Once you have moved into the exit lane.
Slow down once you have moved into the exit lane, using the exit ramp to reduce your speed before you rejoin local roads.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook handles leaving a highway in two steps: get into the correct lane well ahead of the exit, then slow down on the exit ramp. By the time you are off the highway you should already be at or under the new, lower speed limit. Slowing is tied to the exit ramp itself, after you have left the main travel lane, so the traffic behind you on the highway is not affected by your braking.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. On the main road, just before the exit lane. — The handbook puts the slowing down on the exit ramp, not on the main road before the exit lane, so braking there is not what it describes.
- B. Once you see a toll booth. — Toll booths are never mentioned in these passages, so there is nothing tying your speed reduction to one.
- D. When you first see the exit sign. — Exit signs are placed well ahead of the exit to give you time to move into the proper lane, not as a signal to start braking.
Remember it
Two moves, two places: change lanes early, then brake on the ramp.