A public transit bus ahead of you has signaled and is pulling out of a designated pullout bay back into your lane. What does Florida law require of you?
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A.
Maintain speed; the bus must wait for a full gap in traffic
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B.
Yield only if the bus has flashing red lights activated
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C.
Change lanes to the left; yielding is not required
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D.
Yield the right-of-way and let the bus reenter traffic Correct
The answer is "Yield the right-of-way and let the bus reenter traffic"
A transit bus that has signaled and is reentering traffic from a designated pullout bay in your direction of travel gets the right-of-way. Choice A is the trap for drivers who apply the standard merging rule (the entering driver yields) and miss that Florida flips it for public transit buses leaving a pullout bay.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Maintain speed; the bus must wait for a full gap in traffic
Applies the general merging rule where the entering vehicle yields, but Florida reverses it for transit buses leaving a pullout bay. This answer carries the everyday on-ramp merge rule into the one situation the statute reverses.
B. Yield only if the bus has flashing red lights activated
Flashing red lights govern school buses; a transit bus signaling from a pullout bay needs no such lights to be given the right-of-way. This answer blurs the transit-bus yield rule into the school-bus stop rule that sits a page away in memory.
C. Change lanes to the left; yielding is not required
Moving over is courteous but the statute requires yielding, not a substitute lane change. This answer treats yielding as optional whenever a lane change is available, a shortcut the statute does not permit.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Public Transit," p.88..
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