According to the manual's Open Roads section, which of these makes driving on rural highways more dangerous than heavy city traffic?
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A.
Travel speeds may be higher. Correct
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B.
Curves are sharper and hills are steeper.
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C.
Rural drivers rarely use their turn signals.
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D.
Emergency vehicles cannot reach rural roads quickly.
The answer is "Travel speeds may be higher."
The Open Roads section gives three reasons rural highways run more dangerous than heavy city traffic: narrower roadway, poorer lighting, and higher travel speeds. Choice B catches a reader who reads straight down the manual page and adopts the next paragraph's Secondary Roads description of sharper curves and steeper hills as if it sat under Open Roads.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Curves are sharper and hills are steeper.
The Open Roads reasons are road width, lighting, and travel speed. Sharper curves and steeper hills belong to the Secondary Roads paragraph printed directly below Open Roads on manual page 63. Applies a 'rural equals curvy country roads' mental image and picks the Secondary Roads bullets that match it, missing the paragraph boundary.
C. Rural drivers rarely use their turn signals.
The Open Roads section names three road conditions, not driver behaviors: road width, lighting, and travel speed. Turn-signal use is not on that list. Substitutes a stereotype about rural drivers' habits for the road-condition reasons the Open Roads section actually gives.
D. Emergency vehicles cannot reach rural roads quickly.
Emergency response time is not among the three reasons the Open Roads section states. The list is road width, lighting, and travel speed only. Answers from a 'rural means far from help' image rather than the road-condition list the Open Roads section actually gives.
This question tests your knowledge of Defensive Driving in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 4, Your Driving, Open Roads section," p.63..
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