So how’d you do? I got a 95% only missing question #7.
Since it didn’t give detail about the scenario I was picturing driving in the right lane of a two lane freeway and someone driving by on the left. I didn’t think I needed to slow just because someone was driving by. Apparently it was someone passing on a single lane two-way highway. In which case I would slow.
95% - I missed the same one.
I got 10 wrong on purpose and 15.
That DUI question is just baaaad
95%
I missed the one about police wanting to test you for a DUI.
Woohoo! 100% for me. Not that I actually do all that stuff… 
I missed the one about refusing a sobriety test. I’d said you can’t refuse, but their answer is that you can refuse one, but it’ll cost you dearly.
In reality, the answer depends on what state you’re in. Most of my driving has been done in California, where the act of driving gives implied consent to being tested, so in practical terms, it is impossible to refuse a test.
Ugh. I hate that the average score for women is 78, less than the men.
I scored 85 (I’m a woman), but that DUI one tripped me up as well. And, I had no idea that yellow means stop at an intersection. That seems a little bit absurd, especially at an intersection where the speed limit is 50 MPH.
Really?
What did you think it means?
That reminds me of our driver’s ed joke when we were teens:
Red means stop.
Green means go.
Yellow means go really fast.
It didn’t say you were AT the intersection, but APPROACHING the intersection. It also doesn’t say “stop”. It says, “stop, if possible”.
I believe it said something like “Stop unless you’re too close to the intersection.” So, if you see yellow on a 50 mph road and you’re 30 ft from the intersection, do not stop.
It means stop if you can safely do so; if not, well, roll on through. Obviously at 50 MPH the go/no-go decision point will be farther from the intersection than at lower speeds, but the same basic policy applies.
I got 85, but let me explain! First, the yellow light question- I know you’re supposed to stop if you safely can, but I thought the answer they’re always looking for is stop, so that’s what I put, so got that wrong. Then, the question about what can you do if you have a double solid yellow line- I thought they were talking about how people will pass and travel a little ways in the wrong lane, then turn left if someone is behind them so that they don’t make them slow down; but apparently they just meant turning, so I got that wrong- of course you can turn. Then, I forgot whether it was the guy on the right or the left that always has the right of way at a four-way stop if there’s any confusion over who goes first, so I got that one wrong.
Otherwise, I’m a very good driver, I swear.
[Rainman]A very good driver.[/Rainman]
So it really means I am a good driver but bad at reading for comprehension 
90
Missed the one about the guy passing on the left, and I didn’t think you could cross a double yellow for anything.
I got an 85 and was surprised by that.
I missed the DUI one. I think my answer was more accurate than the “correct” one. I have an absolute right to refuse to submit to an alcohol examination. What happens after that is up to the officer and may include “stiff” penalties but doesn’t have to.
I missed #12. I think I just misclicked.
I missed #7. I’m not sure why I would need to slow down. Personally I think it would be safer for the car passing me who knows what my constant speed is rather than changing it up on him just for the sake of change.
85
I got #7 wrong too and I think the right answer is stupid. Everytime someone wants to pass me I should slow down a little bit? The guy behind me wants to pass me because he doesn’t think I’m going fast enough so I should slow down so he can pass and now I’m going slower than I first was and the a-hole behind that first guy now wants to pass me because I’m going slower than originally and that just sets up the chain of events where I will be driving in reverse on the freeway and that my friend is dangerous therefore the test is wrong and I actually got that quesion right.
So my actual score is 90.
85% which is OK considering I’ve never taken a driving test in the US.
(I did get a licence in CT but the guy in the testing place said because I had a British driving licence I didn’t need to take a test as “you guys have the hardest test in the world”. Which was nice of him.)
Ones I got wrong were:
[ul][]What you should see in the rear view mirror when passing someone. I was trying to think in mirror image and got muddled with lefts and rights.[]“When can a motorcycle operator use a complete traffic lane?” - I didn’t understand the question and reasoned that a “complete traffic lane” was US terminology with which I wasn’t familiar. Whereas in my dialect it would be “the whole lane” and I would have got that right.And “If you approach an intersection at the same time as another vehicle, who has the right of way?” I thought it was the person who got there first as a rule - now I realise that this is precluded by the question.[/ul]
I got 90%. I figured that any double line that was legal to cross would be broken at the intersection. And I’m unfamiliar with any driveways on double-yellow roads. IME, residential roads are unpainted.
I thought I put on my high beams for fog, but apparently not. Not being near a lake or ocean, we don’t get a lot of fog that thick in Pittsburgh.
I’m amused by the option, when asked “Who has the right of way when you both arrive simultaneously at an intersection” to respond “I do.”
You know that dotted white line that separates the two lanes when they approach a stop light? I’ve found that if you’re doing the speed limit, then the length of that white line tells you if you’ll make the yellow light. When the light goes from green to yellow, if you’re still next to a dotted line, you can stop. If you’re next to the solid white line, you can make it before red.
I don’t know if this is calculated by the speed limit and length of the light, or if it’s just a mathematical accident caused by other traffic design regulations (e.g. These types of roads must be 50mph, have a 5-second yellow light, and have a line that’s X feet long), but it seems to be accurate.
Of course you can still refuse to take a sobriety test in Calif. Your licence will be automatically suspended, but you can still refuse. Implied Consent means that you agree as a condition of having a driver’s license, to submit to testing, once you refuse then your have broken the licensing agreement and you license is suspended.
But you can still refuse if you are willing to accept the consequences.
I guess the confusion comes from the fact that you can do anything if you’re willing to accept the consequences. You could shoot the cop, for example. Still, I did get that question right