You're driving on a road that ends at a T-intersection in Oregon. There are no signs or signals. What must you do?
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A.
Yield to drivers on the through road. Correct
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B.
Continue straight; the through road yields to you.
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C.
The first driver to arrive at the intersection has the right of way.
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D.
Yield only if a vehicle is directly in front of you.
The answer is "Yield to drivers on the through road."
If you are on a road that ends at a T-intersection with no signs or signals, you must yield to drivers on the through road. The road that ends has the lower priority by default; through-road traffic continues without stopping.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Continue straight; the through road yields to you.
The through road has priority, not the road that's ending. Misreading: Inverts the rule by treating the terminating road as having priority over the through road.
C. The first driver to arrive at the intersection has the right of way.
The handbook rule is structural (terminating road yields), not arrival-order. Misreading: Substitutes a four-way-stop arrival-order rule for the structural T-intersection rule the manual states.
D. Yield only if a vehicle is directly in front of you.
You must yield to all through-road traffic, not just to vehicles directly ahead. Misreading: Narrows 'drivers on the through road' to only a vehicle directly ahead, ignoring all other through traffic.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Intersections," p.42..
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