Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
Your phone rings while you are driving. The handbook says you should:
- Let the call go to voicemail — correct answer
- Answer briefly in hands-free mode
- Answer only if you are stopped at a red light
Why
Do not answer if it rings: let it go to voicemail, and if you must make or return a call, pull safely off the road first. (Section 8, Cell Phones and Texting.)
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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