You are pulling out of a private driveway onto a public road. To whom must you yield?
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A.
Only vehicles traveling in your intended direction of travel.
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B.
Only pedestrians in a marked crosswalk in front of the driveway.
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C.
Main-road vehicles, plus pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk or bike lanes. Correct
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D.
Only vehicles that signal their approach before you pull out.
The answer is "Main-road vehicles, plus pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk or bike lanes."
A driver entering a road from a driveway yields to vehicles already on the main road and to pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk or in bike lanes. Choice A tempts drivers who read a driveway pull-out as a highway on-ramp merge, yielding only to same-direction traffic and forgetting that oncoming and cross traffic already on the road keep the right-of-way.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Only vehicles traveling in your intended direction of travel.
Cross-traffic and opposing traffic also keep the right-of-way; you yield to every vehicle already on the main road, not only those going your way. This answer reads a driveway pull-out as a same-direction highway merge, where the yield runs only to traffic already in the lane being joined.
B. Only pedestrians in a marked crosswalk in front of the driveway.
The manual requires yielding to pedestrians and bicyclists on the sidewalk that crosses the driveway, not only to those inside painted crosswalks. This answer carries the marked-crosswalk pedestrian rule over from intersections, where paint marks the yield line, to a driveway, where the sidewalk itself is the crossing.
D. Only vehicles that signal their approach before you pull out.
A vehicle on the main road has priority whether or not the driver signals. This answer treats a turn signal or flash from an oncoming driver as the request to be let through, rather than the vehicle's presence on the road as what triggers the yield.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Driving Safety: Driveways," p.62..
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