When parking, be sure that your vehicle can be seen for at least ____ in each direction.
- 100 feet
- 50 feet
- 200 feet ✓
- 20 feet
Answer: C. 200 feet
When you park, make sure your vehicle can be seen from at least 200 feet in each direction.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook's parking rule says that when you cannot park off the road, you should leave plenty of room for others to pass and be sure your vehicle can be seen for at least 200 feet from each direction. A driver coming from either way needs that much clear distance to spot a parked vehicle in time to steer around it. If it is nighttime, the handbook adds that you should use your parking lights or leave your headlights on dim so the vehicle stays visible.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. 100 feet — 100 feet falls short of the visibility distance the handbook sets for a parked vehicle.
- B. 50 feet — 50 feet is far less than the distance the handbook requires your parked vehicle to be seen from.
- D. 20 feet — 20 feet is only a fraction of the visibility distance the handbook calls for when you park.
Remember it
Picture two hundred feet of open road in front of and behind your car, so a driver coming either way has room to see it and go around.