Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
Your speed should depend on all of the following EXCEPT:
- The engine size of your vehicle — correct answer
- The road surface and the weather
- The number and speed of other vehicles
Why
The handbook's list is traffic volume and speed, road surface, bicyclists and pedestrians, weather and congestion. (Section 8, Manage Your Speed.)
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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