The manual tells drivers to stay out of other drivers' blind spots. What reason does it give?
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A.
Those drivers have a harder time seeing you from that position. Correct
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B.
State law charges a fine for riding alongside another vehicle.
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C.
Fuel economy drops when you drive in that road position.
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D.
Those drivers are allowed to crowd your lane when you are there.
The answer is "Those drivers have a harder time seeing you from that position."
The manual says to avoid driving in other drivers' blind spots because it is more difficult for them to see you from there. The hazard is their visibility, not a legal rule or a mechanical cost. Trap: option D. A learner who treats lane etiquette as a right-of-way contest looks for a rule that lets another driver push them out, instead of the plain safety reason the manual gives.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. State law charges a fine for riding alongside another vehicle.
The manual gives a safety reason, not a traffic citation; no fine for riding alongside appears in the rule. This answer reads a safety guideline as a traffic law, as if lane position carried fines of its own.
C. Fuel economy drops when you drive in that road position.
Fuel economy is not the manual's concern here; the blind spot is a visibility hazard. This answer looks for a mechanical cost to the rule when the manual's reason is about what another driver can see.
D. Those drivers are allowed to crowd your lane when you are there.
The manual gives no permission for a driver to crowd a lane just because another car is in a blind spot. This answer treats the blind spot as a right-of-way question, as if being hard to see cost you priority in your own lane.
This question tests your knowledge of Lane Changes & Merging in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Scanning," p.68..
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