Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
When should you yield, even if you have the right-of-way?
- Only when a police officer is present
- When it avoids a potential collision or unsafe situation — correct answer
- Never, you should always assert your rights
Why
Yield whenever insisting on your right of way would cause a collision. Being right is no protection at all.
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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