You want to turn left into a private driveway. No sign or traffic light controls the turn. What does the manual say about your duty to yield?
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A.
You yield only to pedestrians crossing the driveway; oncoming traffic gives way.
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B.
You have no yield duty here because no traffic light regulates the turn.
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C.
Oncoming traffic must yield to you because you signaled the turn first.
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D.
You must still yield to oncoming traffic, even though no sign or traffic light is present. Correct
The answer is "You must still yield to oncoming traffic, even though no sign or traffic light is present."
The manual extends the yield-to-oncoming-traffic rule to any left turn into a driveway, parking lot, or other area, and the duty holds even where no sign or traffic light is present. Choice B reads the missing traffic light as canceling the duty, a rule of thumb carried from residential turns that feel routine and unregulated.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. You yield only to pedestrians crossing the driveway; oncoming traffic gives way.
Pedestrian yield is a separate rule running alongside the oncoming-traffic yield, not in place of it; both apply on this left turn. Narrows the yield duty to pedestrians and drops the separate rule covering oncoming traffic.
B. You have no yield duty here because no traffic light regulates the turn.
The manual writes the rule to cover exactly this case; the yield to oncoming traffic holds even where no sign or traffic light is present. Treats a missing traffic control device as canceling every yield duty attached to the turn.
C. Oncoming traffic must yield to you because you signaled the turn first.
A turn signal announces your intention to other drivers; it doesn't transfer priority to you. The left-turning driver still yields to oncoming traffic. Applies a first-to-signal courtesy rule the manual never grants to left-turning drivers.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Right-of-Way," p.34..
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