A NO STANDING sign is posted at the curb where you want to pull over. Under the manual, what does that sign allow you to do?
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A.
Park briefly if a licensed driver stays in the vehicle
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B.
Stop briefly to let passengers on or off, staying in the vehicle Correct
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C.
Stop briefly to load or unload boxes of merchandise
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D.
Stop only to obey a traffic sign, signal, or officer
The answer is "Stop briefly to let passengers on or off, staying in the vehicle"
A NO STANDING sign lets you pause only long enough to pick up or drop off passengers, and the manual is explicit that the driver has to stay behind the wheel the whole time. Choice C is the trap; the load-or-unload-merchandise clause actually belongs to the NO PARKING sign printed one line above NO STANDING in the parking-regulations section, and drivers carry the wrong clause forward.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Park briefly if a licensed driver stays in the vehicle
The 'licensed driver stays' clause belongs to the fifteen-foot fire-hydrant exception later in the parking chapter, not to NO STANDING. This answer borrows the fire-hydrant exception from the same manual page and pins it onto the wrong sign.
C. Stop briefly to load or unload boxes of merchandise
Loading and unloading merchandise is what the NO PARKING sign permits; NO STANDING is limited to passengers. This answer reads across from the NO PARKING sign printed one line above and carries its merchandise clause forward.
D. Stop only to obey a traffic sign, signal, or officer
That description belongs to the NO STOPPING sign, the strictest of the three parking-sign categories the manual defines. This answer blurs the three NO signs into one and reaches for the strictest wording printed in the section.
This question tests your knowledge of Regulatory Signs in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Parking Regulations," p.43..
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