A solid yellow line in your lane tells you what?
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A.
Pass only during daylight hours.
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B.
You may pass if the road ahead looks clear.
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C.
You may not pass another vehicle. Correct
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D.
Pass only if the vehicle ahead is slower.
The answer is "You may not pass another vehicle."
A solid yellow line on your side of the road marks a no-passing zone, and the manual flatly says passing there is illegal. Choice B is the trap: drivers lean on the habit of judging every pass by how far they can see ahead, and treat a clear-looking view as permission to cross paint that forbids it.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Pass only during daylight hours.
Daylight has nothing to do with what a solid yellow line means. This answer confuses pavement markings with time-of-day limits that apply to provisional licenses, not to passing rules.
B. You may pass if the road ahead looks clear.
A clear view ahead does not override a solid yellow line on your side; the paint, not your eyes, decides whether passing is legal here. This answer swaps a pavement rule for a sightline judgment, a habit drivers lean on when they trust the view over the paint.
D. Pass only if the vehicle ahead is slower.
Slower traffic ahead is not an exception to the solid yellow line rule; the paint forbids passing regardless of the lead vehicle's speed. This answer treats a slow lead vehicle as license to pass, borrowing the open-highway courtesy of helping faster traffic get around pokey drivers.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Passing," p.51..
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