According to the manual, why should you avoid stopping quickly right after passing a bicyclist?
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A.
Your brake lights may confuse the driver following behind you.
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B.
A quick stop could lead to the bicyclist crashing into your vehicle. Correct
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C.
Sudden braking on the pavement could cause your vehicle to skid.
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D.
The bicyclist behind you may not have room to steer around your car.
The answer is "A quick stop could lead to the bicyclist crashing into your vehicle."
A quick stop right after a pass leaves the bicyclist no time to react and can put them into the back of your vehicle. The manual specifically warns against this because the risk is to the rider, not to the driver following you. Option C pulls in the wet-pavement skid warning from another section, substituting a general braking hazard for the specific bicyclist collision the manual describes.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Your brake lights may confuse the driver following behind you.
Startling other drivers is not the hazard the manual raises here. This answer substitutes a general brake-light etiquette worry for the specific bicyclist-collision risk.
C. Sudden braking on the pavement could cause your vehicle to skid.
Skid risk from braking is a separate topic; the concern the manual raises is a bicyclist crash. This answer pulls in the wet-pavement skid warning from another section of the manual.
D. The bicyclist behind you may not have room to steer around your car.
The warning is about the bicyclist rear-ending you, not about them needing room to maneuver around a slowing vehicle. This answer extends a general behind-you spacing worry to a rule aimed at what happens in front of the bicyclist.
This question tests your knowledge of Sharing the Road in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "Bicyclists," p.56..
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