Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
There are parked cars to your right and oncoming vehicles to your left. You should:
- Give more space to whichever is the greater danger — correct answer
- Stay exactly in the middle between the two
- Speed up to spend less time between them
Why
When hazards appear on both sides, the handbook asks you to weigh them and give room to the more dangerous one. (Section 8, Choose Between Hazards.)
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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