Topic 7 · Insurance and Financial Responsibility
If your vehicle registration is suspended for lack of insurance, what can happen if you are caught driving?
- You get a discount on registration fees
- Your vehicle can be impounded — correct answer
- Nothing, as long as you have a driver’s license
Why
Driving on a registration suspended for no insurance can get the vehicle impounded.
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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