A 3-minute lesson from the Arizona course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Once you're on the freeway, lane choice matters: keep right except to pass, give entering traffic room, and know the HOV rules. If you break down, get as far right as possible and signal for help.
Know the rule
On roads with two or more lanes, drive on the right half except when passing or when signs say otherwise.
With three or more lanes in your direction, the right lane is used for entering and exiting, so traffic there may be slower or faster. Drivers not exiting may want to avoid it at rush hour.
During posted times Monday through Friday, you may not drive in an HOV lane with fewer than two persons, including the driver. At those times HOV lanes are for car pools, motorcycles or buses.
It's 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, HOV hours are posted, and you're driving alone. You must stay out of the HOV lane — at least two people, including you, are required.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
On the freeway, when are HOV lanes restricted to carpools, motorcycles, or buses?
At the posted times, Monday through Friday
24 hours a day, every day
Only on weekends
Only during school hours
Answer: At the posted times, Monday through Friday
HOV lanes are restricted at posted times Monday through Friday to vehicles carrying two or more people, motorcycles, or buses.
