The traffic light at an intersection is out of order and no law enforcement officer is directing traffic. How should you treat the intersection?
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A.
As a four-way stop, yielding in the order vehicles arrived. Correct
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B.
As a yield sign, slowing only if cross traffic is present.
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C.
As an uncontrolled intersection where the largest vehicle has priority.
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D.
As a green light for the direction with the most waiting vehicles.
The answer is "As a four-way stop, yielding in the order vehicles arrived."
When a Florida traffic light is dark and no officer is directing traffic, drivers treat the intersection as a four-way stop and take turns in the order they arrived. Choice C tempts drivers who fall back on the parking-lot habit of letting the biggest vehicle push through, but Florida replaces the missing signal with four-way-stop order regardless of vehicle size.
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B. As a yield sign, slowing only if cross traffic is present.
The Florida rule replaces the dead signal with a full four-way stop, not the slow-and-look treatment a yield sign allows. Downgrades a powerless intersection one notch to a yield, assuming a missing signal cannot still demand a full stop from every direction.
C. As an uncontrolled intersection where the largest vehicle has priority.
Florida replaces the missing signal with four-way-stop order that treats every direction the same; vehicle size does not shift priority. Follows the parking-lot habit that the biggest vehicle claims the right of way when no rule is posted.
D. As a green light for the direction with the most waiting vehicles.
No approach receives an implied green when the signal fails; every driver must stop and take turns in arrival order. Invents a majority-rules green for the busiest approach, borrowing from how officers sometimes wave the heaviest flow through during outages.
This question tests your knowledge of Traffic Lights in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Traffic Signals," p.51..
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