…here in NY State. When you are driving down a street with sidewalks, and you come to a stop sign - do you stop right at the sidewalk (which is in front of the stop sign) or do you stop right AT the stop sign? The idea being, if people are walking on the sidewalk and are going to cross the street in front of you, you stop at the sidewalk instead of a foot or so further up where your car is blocking the sidewalk… Am I making any sense? I ask because my daughter flunked her driver’s test because of this! But you need to be able to see any traffic coming on either side, and if you are too far back, you can’t see it. Do you stop at the sidewalk and then creep up a little to the sign and stop again? I never thought of this and didn’t know what to tell her, I just stop at a sign without even noticing if there is a sidewalk in front of it.
in my state there is a stop line that is a few feet before the cross walk. you stop there. if the crosswalk is clear and the cross traffic is clear then you creep out and make a final look if needed.
Right; there’s supposed to be a crosswalk, and a line in front of the crosswalk that you’re supposed to stop behind. I can never get over the number of people who ignore both, stopping with their front end hanging over both lines of the crosswalk, (nevermind the stop line.)
I remember this from my driving test. You’re supposed to stop at the stop line and then proceed forward and stop again at the corner only after you’ve confirmed there’s no one anywhere near the crosswalk.
It’s the big gotcha that catches a lot of people on the driving test.
There’s often NO stop line painted on the road, or any lines painted for a crosswalk, either, as a visual clue. Well, that’s what I thought, if they wanted you to stop and then creep up, that’s the proper thing to do. Thank you for your answers.
Your daughter should’ve asked the instructor exactly what she should’ve done in this instance. The instructor would’ve given her the exact rule, and maybe even let it slide. Even if she still failed, she wouldn’t make that same mistake on the next try.
I took my driver’s test when I was 15 and made a similar error and asked the instructor what I did wrong and she ended up not taking any points off for it.
NYS driver checking in. It’s been about 10 years since my drivers exam but I remember the rule is you have to stop behind the sidewalk for any intersection where there is a sidewalk whether it is marked by a crosswalk or not, and then creep up to the intersection and stop again to look for oncoming traffic. It’s also something that I remember being stressed in the 5-hour pre-exam class.