A curb painted white allows you to do what?
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A.
Stop only long enough to pick up or drop off passengers. Correct
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B.
Park for a limited time posted on nearby signs.
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C.
Load and unload freight while staying with the vehicle.
The answer is "Stop only long enough to pick up or drop off passengers."
White curbs are for short stops to pick up or drop off passengers, nothing else. A driver who picks the time-limited parking option has confused white with green, the color listed immediately below it in the same section.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Park for a limited time posted on nearby signs.
Time-limited parking is the green-curb rule, not white. This answer slides one row down the curb-color list to green, which does allow limited parking with a posted time limit.
C. Load and unload freight while staying with the vehicle.
Freight loading is the yellow-curb rule. This answer merges the yellow-curb freight loading rule and its noncommercial stay-with-vehicle note into a single answer meant for white.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "Parking at Colored Curbs," p.28..
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