Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
If you encounter an aggressive or angry driver, you should:
- Avoid making eye contact and do not return gestures — correct answer
- Chase them to confront them
- Engage with them to defend yourself
Why
Avoid eye contact and do not return gestures. Aggressive drivers are looking for a response — denying them one usually ends it.
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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