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Topic 8 · Emergencies and Unforeseen Situations

When experiencing total brake failure, you can slow the car by:

Why

Downshifting makes the engine work against the wheels. Combined with the parking brake it will bring you down to a stop.

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.

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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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