Topic 3 · Rules of the Road: Traffic Laws in California
You are driving slowly on a two-lane road where passing is unsafe. You must use a turnout when the vehicles following you number:
- Two or more
- Five or more — correct answer
- Ten or more
Why
With five or more vehicles behind you on a two-lane road where passing is unsafe, using the turnout area or lane is an obligation, not a courtesy. (Section 6, Turnout Areas or Lanes.)
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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