A 3-minute lesson from the Wisconsin course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Before you pull out, run a quick check of your papers, your car and your seat. Then the first rule of the road: knowing who goes first when vehicles and people meet where there are no signals or signs.
Check before every drive
Your valid driver license, proof of insurance and vehicle registration
Your car is in good working condition
Your seatbelt is fastened and all passengers are wearing theirs
Seat and mirrors adjusted, and you can see out all windows
You reach a four-way stop at the same moment as a car on your right. That driver goes first. If a bicyclist had arrived before both of you, the bicyclist would go first.
Put it into practice
You're on a side street ending at a road with no stop sign, an uncontrolled T-intersection. Yield to the cross traffic on the through road before you turn.
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.
At a four-way stop, if two vehicles arrive at the same time, who goes first?
The larger vehicle
The driver going straight
The driver on the right
The driver who signals first
Answer: The driver on the right
If two vehicles arrive together at a four-way stop, the driver on the right goes first.