Your vehicle's stopping distance increases when stopping:
- On a wet or icy road. ✓
- On paved highways.
- When driving at night.
- All of the above.
Answer: A. On a wet or icy road.
Your stopping distance increases on a wet or icy road.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook says roads become slippery when wet, making your car harder to control, so you should slow down and increase your following distance. Its winter driving tips also say to increase the distance from the vehicle ahead on icy pavement because many rear-end collisions happen when drivers do not leave enough space to stop. Together, these passages support wet or icy roads as the condition that lengthens stopping distance.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. On paved highways. — The passages do not say that paved highways by themselves increase stopping distance; they describe slippery wet or icy pavement as the problem.
- C. When driving at night. — The handbook says to avoid over-driving your range of vision in the dark, but it does not state that driving at night increases stopping distance.
- D. All of the above. — This cannot be right because the passages support wet or icy roads, not paved highways generally or nighttime driving by itself, as conditions that increase stopping distance.
Remember it
Think slippery surface, longer slide: wet or icy pavement means you need more room to stop.