You pull up behind a vehicle towing a travel trailer and plan to pass. The manual warns the pass can require how much clear roadway?
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A.
Up to half a mile. Correct
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B.
About 500 feet.
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C.
Two hundred feet.
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D.
A quarter mile.
The answer is "Up to half a mile."
The manual warns that passing a vehicle towing a trailer may take a half mile of clear roadway, because you must clear both the trailer and the towing vehicle before pulling back in. Option D is the trap: a quarter mile is only half the clear roadway the manual warns you may need to pass a trailer and its towing vehicle safely, and drivers sizing the gap against a single sedan length settle for it.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. About 500 feet.
500 feet is a visibility figure from a different passage; the manual gives a far longer distance for passing a trailer. This answer pulls the 500-foot hill-and-curve passing-visibility figure and applies it to how far the trailer pass itself must run.
C. Two hundred feet.
Two hundred feet is the rear NO-ZONE distance behind a tractor-trailer, not the trailer-passing clear-roadway figure. This answer carries over the rear NO-ZONE number a driver just read on the facing page, treating any big-vehicle figure in the chapter as the one that answers this question.
D. A quarter mile.
A quarter mile is only half the clear roadway the manual warns you may need to pass a trailer and its towing vehicle safely. This answer halves the manual's half-mile figure on the assumption a quarter mile sounds like enough road to clear one extra vehicle.
This question tests your knowledge of Passing in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Recreational Vehicles and Trailers," p.92..
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