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Idaho driving lesson · Right-of-Way, Passing & Parking

Yielding to pedestrians and other drivers

A 2-minute lesson from the Idaho course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.

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Read time
2 minutes
Course unit
Right-of-Way, Passing & Parking
Checkpoint questions
6
Source pages
75, 76

Yielding means letting someone else go first. Pedestrians get priority in crosswalks, but they must also wait for traffic when crossing mid-block. A few driving situations always require you to yield, no matter who arrived first.

Motor vehicles must yield to a pedestrian when:

  • The pedestrian is in a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection
  • The vehicle is entering a street from an alley or driveway
  • The pedestrian is a blind person walking with a white cane or guide dog
Handbook p. 75 ↗

Pedestrians must yield to motor vehicles when:

  • Crossing a street where there is no crosswalk or intersection
  • Directed to by a traffic signal at an intersection or crosswalk
Handbook p. 75 ↗

Know the rule

As you approach a yield sign, always slow down and be prepared to stop.

Handbook p. 75 ↗

Know the rule

When entering a street from an alley, driveway, or garage, stop first, then yield.

Handbook p. 75 ↗

Know the rule

When making a left turn, yield to oncoming traffic in the intersection unless a traffic-control device directs otherwise.

Handbook p. 76 ↗

Know the rule

In work zones, yield to all vehicles and pedestrians working on the highway construction project.

Handbook p. 76 ↗

Know the rule

When a stop light isn't working because of a power outage, yield to other drivers the same way as at a four-way stop.

Handbook p. 76 ↗

Put it into practice

You're pulling out of a parking garage onto a downtown street. Stop before the sidewalk, let the pedestrian walking past go by, then yield to traffic on the street before you pull out.

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.

Motor vehicles must yield to a pedestrian who is:
  1. waiting at a bus stop
  2. walking along the shoulder
  3. walking on the sidewalk
  4. in a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection

Answer: in a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection

Vehicles must yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, marked or unmarked.

Handbook p. 75 ↗
Motor vehicles must yield when entering a street from:
  1. an alley or driveway
  2. a one-way street
  3. a road with a green light
  4. a through street

Answer: an alley or driveway

Entering from an alley or driveway requires yielding.

Handbook p. 75 ↗
Pedestrians must yield to vehicles when:
  1. crossing in a marked crosswalk
  2. crossing where there's no crosswalk or intersection
  3. crossing with a walk signal
  4. being accompanied by a guide dog

Answer: crossing where there's no crosswalk or intersection

Pedestrians must yield when crossing outside a crosswalk or intersection.

Handbook p. 75 ↗
A blind pedestrian using a white cane or guide dog:
  1. may only cross at signalized intersections
  2. must yield to vehicles like any pedestrian
  3. has the right-of-way
  4. has no special right-of-way

Answer: has the right-of-way

Vehicles must yield to a pedestrian carrying a white cane or with a guide dog.

Handbook p. 75 ↗
In work zones, you must yield to:
  1. all vehicles or pedestrians working on the project
  2. no one unless posted
  3. only marked construction vehicles
  4. only flaggers holding a stop sign

Answer: all vehicles or pedestrians working on the project

Idaho law requires yielding to everyone working on the project.

Handbook p. 76 ↗
When a stoplight is out due to a power outage, you should yield:
  1. only to emergency vehicles
  2. the same way as at a four-way stop
  3. to traffic on the busier street
  4. to no one, proceed with caution

Answer: the same way as at a four-way stop

A dead signal is treated like a four-way stop for yielding.

Handbook p. 76 ↗
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