Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
Which of the following is true about using cruise control?
- Use during rain or snow
- Only use cruise control on dry, open highways — correct answer
- Use in city traffic
Why
Use cruise control only on dry, open road. On wet or icy surfaces it can keep applying power exactly when you need to be slowing.
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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