According to the manual, advance work zone signs may require you to do what?
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A.
Shift your vehicle to another lane. Correct
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B.
Sound the horn to alert the workers.
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C.
Come to a complete stop at the sign itself.
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D.
Turn off your headlights until past the zone.
The answer is "Shift your vehicle to another lane."
The manual gives shifting to another lane as its example of what advance work zone signs may require. Choice C attracts drivers who treat any warning sign near a work zone as a stop-sign order, borrowing that response from a different sign category.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Sound the horn to alert the workers.
The manual does not tell drivers to sound the horn on approach to a work zone. This answer borrows the horn-warning rule from pedestrian-crossing scenarios and applies it here.
C. Come to a complete stop at the sign itself.
The advance warning is not a stop instruction; the manual only names it as a signal to act ahead of time. This answer reads any prominent orange sign as demanding the same halt required by a STOP sign.
D. Turn off your headlights until past the zone.
Nothing in the manual instructs drivers to switch off their headlights approaching a work zone. This answer invents a headlight rule that no work zone passage in the manual supports.
This question tests your knowledge of Construction Signs in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Work Zones," p.71..
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