Topic 3 · Rules of the Road: Traffic Laws in California
What should you do when approaching a yellow traffic light?
- Prepare to stop if safe to do so — correct answer
- Speed up to beat the red light
- Stop only if you see police
Why
Yellow means stop if you can do so safely. Accelerating to beat it is how intersection collisions happen.
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.