Below a curve warning sign, you see a smaller yellow sign showing a number such as 35. According to the Florida manual, what does that number tell you?
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A.
The fastest safe speed you should travel around the curve ahead. Correct
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B.
The minimum speed required through the curve to avoid a citation.
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C.
The speed at which the curve was engineered and tested by state highway crews.
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D.
The legal speed limit that replaces the posted regulatory limit for this stretch of road.
The answer is "The fastest safe speed you should travel around the curve ahead."
An advisory speed panel posted with a warning sign gives the fastest safe speed for the hazard ahead. Drivers who read the yellow number as a white regulatory speed-limit sign reach for choice D, but the posted regulatory limit still applies before and after the curve; the advisory panel only recommends a safe speed through it.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. The minimum speed required through the curve to avoid a citation.
Advisory panels give a maximum safe speed, not a minimum; minimum speeds apply only where posted on highways. This answer borrows the highway minimum-speed rule and applies it to an advisory warning panel.
C. The speed at which the curve was engineered and tested by state highway crews.
The panel is a driver instruction, not an engineering spec for the roadway. This answer reads the number as a technical design figure rather than the recommended driving speed.
D. The legal speed limit that replaces the posted regulatory limit for this stretch of road.
Advisory panels are yellow warnings, not regulatory limits; the posted speed limit still applies. This answer treats a yellow warning panel as if it were a white regulatory speed-limit sign.
This question tests your knowledge of Warning Signs in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Warning Signs," p.49..
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