You are pulling out of a private parking lot onto a public street. What does the manual say a vehicle leaving a driveway or private road must do?
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A.
Signal and merge at the nearest gap in traffic.
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B.
Stop and yield to roadway traffic and pedestrians. Correct
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C.
Roll through only when no vehicles are visible.
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D.
Yield only to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
The answer is "Stop and yield to roadway traffic and pedestrians."
A vehicle entering a roadway from a driveway or private road must stop and yield to traffic on the roadway and to pedestrians, whether or not a sign is posted. Option C tempts drivers who lean on the parking-lot habit of easing out when no cars are visible, treating the stop as optional judgment rather than the fixed rule the manual sets.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Signal and merge at the nearest gap in traffic.
Signal-and-merge is the technique for an on-ramp entry, not a driveway exit; the manual holds driveway exits to a stricter stop-and-yield rule that covers both traffic and pedestrians. This answer borrows the freeway on-ramp merging technique and applies it to a driveway situation the manual treats as a full stop, not a rolling merge.
C. Roll through only when no vehicles are visible.
A rolling exit violates the stop-and-yield rule the manual sets for driveway exits, which requires a full stop and a yield to both roadway traffic and pedestrians even with no cars in sight. This answer carries over the ordinary driving habit of easing across an entrance when nothing is coming, and skips the full stop entirely.
D. Yield only to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
The manual's rule pairs the yield to pedestrians with a stop and yield to traffic already on the roadway, so this answer catches only half of what the driver owes. This answer latches onto the crosswalk sentence sitting near the driveway paragraph and drops the roadway-traffic half of the rule.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Chapter 5 / Intersections and Turns - Right-of-Way," p.34..
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