Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
What is the best way to manage distractions from passengers?
- Join in the distraction to show you’re fun
- Politely ask them to quiet down or follow your ground rules — correct answer
- Ignore distractions and hope nothing happens
Why
Set expectations before you start. Asking passengers to keep it down is easier than trying to manage a conversation and traffic at once.
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.