You lost your brakes and managed to bring the vehicle to a full stop on the side of the road. According to the manual, what should you do next?
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A.
Drive slowly to the nearest repair shop
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B.
Call for help and do not try to drive Correct
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C.
Test the brakes at low speed to see if pressure returned
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D.
Coast downhill in neutral toward a service station
The answer is "Call for help and do not try to drive"
Once you have stopped a vehicle with failed brakes, the manual tells you to call for help and not try to drive. The brake system is not fixed just because you got the vehicle to stop. Drivers reach for D by confusing fuel-saving neutral coasting with a safe recovery technique, which also undoes the low-gear step from earlier in the sequence.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Drive slowly to the nearest repair shop
The manual is direct: do not try to drive after a brake failure, no matter how short the distance to a repair shop. This answer treats a short low-speed drive as safer than a tow call, missing that a second brake loss can happen at any moment.
C. Test the brakes at low speed to see if pressure returned
The manual does not treat a stopped vehicle as a fixed vehicle; testing the brakes on the road is exactly the driving it tells you not to do. This answer assumes pumping restored the system, forgetting that pressure that came back once can vanish again mid-test.
D. Coast downhill in neutral toward a service station
Coasting in neutral is still driving, and it removes even the engine braking that low gear was giving you, which is the opposite of what the manual sets up. This answer confuses fuel-saving neutral coasting with a safe recovery technique and undoes the low-gear step from earlier in the sequence.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "IF YOU HAVE AN OLDER VEHICLE AND YOUR BRAKES SUDDENLY FAIL," p.62..
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