Topic 6 · Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving (DUI Laws)
What’s the effect of sleeping pills like Ambien on driving?
- Can cause dangerous drowsiness or even sleep-driving — correct answer
- Have no effect
- Improve alertness
Why
Sleep medications can leave you drowsy long after you take them, and are linked to sleep-driving episodes the driver does not remember.
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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