You see a series of solid white triangles painted on the pavement ahead, all pointing in your direction of travel. What are these markings telling you?
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A.
A speed hump or speed table; slow before you cross it. Correct
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B.
A pedestrian crossing ahead; yield to anyone in it.
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C.
A railroad crossing ahead; stop if a train is near.
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D.
A lane ending ahead; merge into the next lane.
The answer is "A speed hump or speed table; slow before you cross it."
A row of solid white triangles pointing in your direction of travel warns of a speed hump or speed table ahead, so slow to the posted advisory speed before you cross. The pedestrian-crossing answer is the trap: a crosswalk uses parallel white bars or blocks straight across the road, and drivers who read any bold white pavement pattern as a crosswalk cue miss that these triangles point along the lane, not across it.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. A pedestrian crossing ahead; yield to anyone in it.
A pedestrian crosswalk uses parallel white bars or blocks straight across the road, not triangles pointing along the lane. This answer reads any bold white pattern on the pavement as a crosswalk cue, without checking whether the shapes sit at a stop line or point along the direction of travel.
C. A railroad crossing ahead; stop if a train is near.
Railroad crossings on the pavement are marked with a large white X and the letters RR, not with rows of triangles. This answer reaches for the biggest pavement warning learned in driver's ed and applies it to any bold row of shapes on the road.
D. A lane ending ahead; merge into the next lane.
A lane drop is shown by a lane-reduction arrow or a tapering line, not by a row of forward-pointing triangles. This answer confuses a row of chevron shapes with the single lane-reduction arrow that appears before a lane closure.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.27 (Speed Hump Marking)..
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