According to the manual, missing a destination sign during your trip can force you into which unsafe driving action?
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A.
Making a U-turn across a median
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B.
Increasing your speed to catch up
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C.
Backing up along the shoulder
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D.
Turning or stopping suddenly Correct
The answer is "Turning or stopping suddenly"
The manual says to watch destination signs during a trip so you 'will not get lost, or have to turn or stop suddenly.' Choice C is the trap for a reader who has recently read the expressway-driving chapter: backing up on a ramp is another manual warning, but it belongs to a different chapter and to a different hazard.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Making a U-turn across a median
Crossing the median is warned about separately from destination signs, in the expressway-driving section. This answer substitutes another dangerous expressway maneuver the manual warns against.
B. Increasing your speed to catch up
The manual does not link missed destination signs to speeding. This answer reaches for a general highway-safety worry that surfaces before the specific manual reason.
C. Backing up along the shoulder
Backing up is warned about on entrance and exit ramps, not as a consequence of missing a destination sign. This answer carries a ramp-safety warning from the expressway-driving chapter into a rule about guide signs.
This question tests your knowledge of Guide Signs in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Guide Signs," p.30..
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