You see a regulatory sign in the roadway ahead showing a large arrow pointing down and to the right just before an island in the pavement. According to the manual, what does the sign tell you to do?
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A.
Merge into the right lane and reduce your speed.
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B.
Drive to the right of the sign. Correct
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C.
Yield to oncoming traffic entering from the right.
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D.
Prepare to exit the highway at the next ramp.
The answer is "Drive to the right of the sign."
The keep-right regulatory sign is placed in advance of islands and medians to route drivers around the object on the right. Choice D is the trap for a driver who reads the arrow as the yellow exit-ramp warning they saw earlier on the highway and treats it as an off-ramp cue rather than a barrier-avoidance instruction.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Merge into the right lane and reduce your speed.
The sign is placed at an object in the road, not at a lane drop calling for a merge. This answer reads the arrow as the yellow lane-ending warning that sits before a merge point.
C. Yield to oncoming traffic entering from the right.
The sign directs your steering around the object, not who has right-of-way from a cross-street. This answer confuses the keep-right marker with a yield-to-cross-traffic instruction.
D. Prepare to exit the highway at the next ramp.
The arrow marks an obstruction to steer around, not an off-ramp. This answer substitutes an exit-ramp advisory for the island-and-median regulatory marker.
This question tests your knowledge of Regulatory Signs in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Table 19: Regulatory and Warning Signs," p.30..
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