A 3-minute lesson from the Montana course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Other drivers expect you to keep doing what you're doing. Warn them before you turn, change lanes or slow down — early enough to help, but not so early that someone guesses the wrong spot.
Know the rule
Let others know what you're doing with your signals, your vehicle's position and eye contact.
Don't signal too early. If there are streets, driveways or entrances between you and your turn — or a vehicle is about to pull out there — wait until you've passed them.
You plan to turn right into the second driveway ahead, and a car is waiting to pull out of the first one. Wait until you've passed that car before you signal, so its driver doesn't think you're turning where they are.
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.
When should you tap your brake pedal several times quickly, instead of just braking normally?
Every time you approach a stop sign
Only when driving downhill
Never, this is not recommended
When slowing somewhere unexpected
Answer: When slowing somewhere unexpected
Tapping the brake several times warns following drivers when you're slowing at an unexpected spot, like a driveway.
