Topic 6 · Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving (DUI Laws)
If an officer observes slurred speech, red eyes, and smell of alcohol, what might they do?
- Ignore the driver
- Conduct a field sobriety test — correct answer
- Only issue a parking ticket
Why
Those observations give an officer reasonable grounds to investigate impairment through field sobriety testing.
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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