When making a right turn on a green light, you must:
- Maintain your normal driving speed.
- Stop and look for nearby police cars.
- Yield to pedestrians. ✓
- Increase your normal driving speed.
Answer: C. Yield to pedestrians.
When you turn right on a green light, you must yield to pedestrians.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says that at a green light you may proceed only if it is safe, and you must watch for pedestrians in the intersection. It also says drivers must give the right-of-way to pedestrians on a green light when there is no pedestrian control signal, and must still yield if the light changes after a pedestrian has entered the crosswalk. A right turn on green is therefore not a free pass to keep moving; people on foot get priority.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Maintain your normal driving speed. — Maintaining your normal driving speed is wrong because a green light only allows you to proceed if it is safe, and you must watch for and yield to pedestrians in the intersection.
- B. Stop and look for nearby police cars. — Stopping to look for nearby police cars is not a rule in the handbook; the green-light rule is about proceeding safely and yielding to pedestrians, not watching for police.
- D. Increase your normal driving speed. — Increasing your normal driving speed is wrong because a green light does not override the need to proceed safely and yield to people on foot.
Remember it
Green means go only when the way is clear — people on foot come first.
Official handbook: Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7), Chapter 4: Right-of-Way , p. 23