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Take the free 5-question testEmergencies & Collisions
- Your headlights fail while you're driving at night. What must you not do?
- Your headlights suddenly go out while driving at night. What should you do?
- You hit a deer on a rural highway. Nobody is hurt and the damage looks minor. Is there anyone you should tell?
- A whiteout has left you stuck in a snowbank on a rural road, with no help in sight. What does the Driver's Handbook say to do while you wait?
- After a minor collision your car cannot be driven and a tow truck arrives. Beyond exchanging details with the other driver, what does the Driver's Handbook say you should record?
- Your car dies on a 400-series freeway and you get it onto the shoulder. Should you raise the hood so people can see you need help, and wait outside the car?
- Another driver has taken exception to something you did and is now following you, gesturing and driving aggressively. What does the Driver's Handbook tell you to do?
- Your car stalls with the wheels on a level railway crossing and will not restart. Your passengers are still belted in. What does the Driver's Handbook say to do?
School Buses & Emergency Vehicles
- A fire department vehicle is responding to a fire alarm, well above the posted speed limit. Do HTA speed limits actually apply to it in that moment?
- A privately owned yellow van pulls up ahead with "SCHOOL BUS" lettered on the back and a stop arm fitted to its side. Could that be a vehicle dressing itself up as a school bus?
- A yellow diamond sign shows a school bus symbol with an arrow, warning of a school bus entrance ahead. What does the fact that it has been posted at all tell you about what is coming?
- You are driving toward a school bus, meeting it head-on rather than following it. Will you get the same amber-then-red warning that the drivers behind it get?
- A school bus ahead has swung its stop arm out, but you cannot see its overhead red lights from where you are. Does the stop arm on its own oblige you to stop?
- A school bus stops to let children off about 30 metres from a signalised intersection, and its overhead red lights never come on. Has the bus driver done something wrong?
- A hydro utility truck comes up behind you sounding a siren, with a lamp producing intermittent flashes of red light. It is not police, fire or an ambulance. Do you have to pull over and stop?
- A school bus has finished dropping off its last passenger, but one child still has to cross the road in front of the bus. When is the bus driver allowed to switch the red lights and stop arm off?
Construction & Temporary Signs
- This detour sign is rectangular rather than diamond-shaped. Why is that not a contradiction of the general temporary-condition-sign rule?
- You're on a two-lane, two-way highway approaching a short construction zone where a YIELD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC sign is posted, with no flagger or temporary signal present. What is that sign telling you?
- An orange NARROW LANES sign has two tabs beneath it: one reading TRUCKS USE CENTRE LANE, the other reading FOR 12 KM. What are the two tabs each doing?
- Approaching a work zone you see an orange PREPARE TO STOP sign with an amber light on each side, alternating side to side, and a tab under it reading WHEN FLASHING. The lights are flashing. What does that tell you that the sign alone would not?
- About 150 metres ahead an orange TEMPORARY BRIDGE sign carries a tab showing a speed. What is that speed, and what should you do about the bridge itself?
- Ahead on a two-lane-each-way road, a utility crew is working from a parked van at the roadside. There is no construction zone signed, and no emergency vehicle with flashing lights. How does the Driver's Handbook say you should treat it?
- On a rural highway you pass an orange sign reading DO NOT USE RADIO TRANSMITTER. Why would a road crew care what is on your airwaves?
- A large orange LOW BRIDGE AHEAD sign appears on a highway carrying roadworks. Why is it placed where it is, and what does its presence tell you about the structure?
Night & Bad Weather
- You're driving at night. Within what distance of an oncoming vehicle must you switch to low-beam headlights?
- On a long night drive you realise you cannot remember the last several kilometres, and a moment ago you went through a set of lights without registering what colour they were. What has the Handbook just described?
- How should your following distance change when driving in fog, heavy rain, or snow?
- You're driving in fog. Why should you use low-beam headlights instead of high beams?
- Ontario's winter driving guidance gives two specific things to keep topped up before winter sets in — one about fuel and one about washer fluid. What are they?
- Rain is falling hard enough to cut visibility and your car's daytime running lights are on automatically. Is that enough lighting?
- The Driver's Handbook names one combination of conditions that "often initiate a collision" with pedestrians. What is it?
- It is a brilliantly sunny afternoon, you are wearing sunglasses, and the road ahead disappears into a tunnel. What three things does the Driver's Handbook tell you to do?
Information Signs
- Well before a big freeway junction, an overhead green sign shows what looks like a small map — a white plan view of the road splitting, with route numbers placed against each branch. What is it for, and where will you meet it?
- You're used to green guide signs giving route and destination information. On Highway 407 ETR and in the collector lanes of some freeways, you instead see a blue guide sign with white lettering giving the same kind of information. Why the different colour?
- What colour are most information and direction signs?
- Following directions that mention a highway number you cannot find, you pass a route marker with a small tab beneath it reading FORMERLY and the number you were looking for. What has happened?
- On a stretch of urban freeway where the exits come thick and fast, one overhead sign lists three upcoming interchanges together with a distance beside each, and then you get no separate advance sign for the first of them. Has one been missed?
- Most guide and direction signs in Ontario have a green background, but you pass one with white lettering on a blue background naming the municipality you are entering. Is that a different category of sign?
- Every other Ontario freeway marker carries a cardinal direction tab — NORTH, SOUTH, EAST or WEST. The QEW does not. What is used instead, and what can it say?
- You have just turned onto what you hope is Highway 6. A short distance after the intersection you pass a small marker showing "6". What is that marker there to do?
Sign Shapes & Colours
- You see a regulatory sign with a green circle around a symbol. What does the green circle mean?
- The Ontario Traffic Manual ranks sign categories by how critical they are for a driver to notice and react to in time. Which category sits at the very top of that hierarchy, even above regulatory signs like STOP and speed limit signs?
- What shape and colour scheme do regulatory signs generally use?
- A temporary condition sign (like a construction warning) is the same diamond shape as a regular warning sign. How can you tell them apart at a glance?
- Setting aside signs with a unique shape of their own like stop and yield, what shape are most regulatory signs?
Your Licence & Penalties
- You are a G1 or G2 driver. Which convictions bring at least a 30-day licence suspension and the possibility of losing your licence altogether — regardless of how many demerit points you have accumulated?
- You're a 19-year-old G2 driver in your first six months of Level Two. Between midnight and 5 a.m., how many passengers aged 19 or under can you have in the car?
- Between what hours is a Level One driver prohibited from driving?
- A 19-year-old G2 driver has now held their licence for over six months. Under what circumstance does the stricter midnight-to-5-a.m. passenger limit not apply at all, regardless of how many young passengers are in the car?
- You cut across a supermarket car park at speed, weaving between parked cars. It is private property and not a highway. Can you be charged with careless driving?
- A police officer pulls you over and asks for your driver's licence, vehicle permit and insurance. You have left the insurance slip at home. Do you have 24 hours to bring the documents in?
- A driver holding a full Class G licence turns 80 and completes the mandatory vision test and screening exercise required at that age. How often must they repeat these examinations to keep their licence, for as long as they continue driving?
- You have an ordinary full Class G licence. You want to tow a house trailer behind your pickup truck. Up to what combined weight can you tow before you'd need a different (commercial) licence class instead?
- A G1 driver wants to use their phone for hands-free calling through the car's Bluetooth system while driving. Is this allowed, given they're still a novice driver?
- A driver (not driving a bus) wants to pick up strangers and drive them somewhere in exchange for payment, without any taxi, rideshare, or other transport licence or permit. Is this allowed under the Act?
- What is the minimum vision standard an applicant for a Class G, G1, or G2 licence must meet?
- A driver is required to have an ignition interlock device installed. How does the device actually control whether the vehicle can be driven?
- A novice (G1 or G2) driver is convicted of using a hand-held device while driving. How does their penalty differ from what a fully licensed driver would face for the same offence?
- Ontario's zero-cannabis-tolerance rule for driving applies to which drivers, regardless of what licence class they hold?
Speed Limits & Following Distance
- A municipality by-law sets a lower speed limit for vehicles crossing a specific bridge on a road under its jurisdiction. For that lower limit to take effect, what must the municipality do?
- Instead of passing a separate speed by-law for every individual street, a municipality wants one by-law to lower the limit below 50 km/h across an entire designated neighbourhood at once. Does the HTA allow this kind of area-wide speed by-law?
- You're driving on a rural road outside any city, town, or village, with no speed limit signs posted. What is the default maximum speed?
- You're driving well under the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway with no safety reason to go that slowly, and a line of traffic is backing up behind you. Can this be a traffic offence, even though you aren't speeding?
- The two-second following rule gives you a minimum safe following distance. Under what conditions does that minimum apply?
- What is the minimum safe following distance recommended for ideal driving conditions?
- Unless otherwise posted, what is the default maximum speed limit in a city, town, or village in Ontario?
- Unless otherwise posted, what is the default maximum speed limit outside a city, town, or village in Ontario?
Regulatory Signs
- A regulatory "No Standing" sign is posted with arrows showing the zone it covers. What does "no standing" mean, as distinct from "no parking"?
- A rectangular white sign showing a black number and "km/h" is an example of what kind of sign?
- Traffic is crawling on a highway and a transit bus sweeps past you along the paved shoulder. You then notice a sign reading "DO NOT DRIVE ON PAVED SHOULDER — AUTHORIZED BUSES EXCEPTED". Was the bus breaking the law?
- You have just driven onto a ramp at a freeway interchange and a large red-and-white sign facing you reads "DO NOT ENTER" above "WRONG WAY". What has happened, and what should you do?
- Above a busy downtown intersection there is a sign panel that is showing nothing at all — a dark, empty face where a turn restriction is sometimes displayed. What should you take from a blank panel?
- A square white sign shows a farm tractor inside a red ring with a diagonal line through it. Where would you expect to see it, and who is it aimed at?
- A NO LEFT TURN sign carries a black tab beneath it reading "EXCEPT AUTHORIZED VEHICLES". You have a good reason to make that turn. Does the tab help you?
- Ontario's demerit-point schedule prices "failing to obey a stop sign" at 3 points. Does an ordinary regulatory sign — a NO LEFT TURN or ONE WAY sign, say — carry the same 3 points if you disobey it?
- Facing a DO NOT ENTER sign at the mouth of a street, you wonder whether the restriction might only apply at certain times of day, the way some turn restrictions do. Can a DO NOT ENTER sign be time-limited?
Sharing the Road
- An off-road vehicle (ORV) is legally using a public road posted at 60 km/h. What is the ORV's own maximum speed on that road, regardless of the posted limit?
- A cyclist riding near the curb ahead of you suddenly swings out toward the middle of the lane as they approach a set of streetcar tracks. Why?
- A horse-drawn buggy is coming toward you on a two-lane road. What does the Driver's Handbook say to do — and what should you do differently if you are passing one from behind?
- How do Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) help a pedestrian with impaired vision know when it's their turn to cross, beyond the usual Walk symbol?
- A rural road has no sidewalk. Which side is a pedestrian walking along that road required to use, and why does it matter to you as a driver approaching?
- At some multi-lane crossings, the vehicle stop line is set noticeably farther back from the crosswalk than usual. What real safety problem is this "advanced stop bar" specifically designed to prevent?
- How can you tell a traffic signal is a dedicated bicycle signal, meant for cyclists rather than general traffic?
- You flick a cigarette butt out your car window while driving on a highway. Under the Highway Traffic Act, is this an offence?
- A 14-year-old wants to ride a power-assisted bicycle (e-bike) on a highway. Is this legal, and does it matter whether an adult owns the e-bike and permits it?
- Beyond passing another vehicle and preparing for a left turn, HTA Section 147 lists two more specific exceptions to the "keep right" rule. What are they?
- You're driving and an off-road vehicle (ORV) is legally using the same public road as you. Where on the road should it normally be travelling?
Right of Way
- Two drivers reach a spot at the same moment and neither is sure who has the right-of-way. What does the Handbook's own safety list tell you to do?
- Your light turns green, but a cyclist who entered the intersection on the previous phase is still crossing in front of you, and a pedestrian released a few seconds early is still in the crosswalk. Whose move is it?
- One pedestrian crossover you use has big internally lit overhead X signs and flashing amber beacons; another has only side-mounted signs and small rapid-flashing rectangular beacons. Does your duty differ between them?
- Pulling out of a shop's car park onto the road, you make an approaching driver brake hard. Nothing is hit. Is there an offence with a set fine for that?
- Crossing a wide divided road, a pedestrian gets as far as the median island and stops there, even though the walk signal is still showing. Is something wrong?
- Another driver pulls out in front of you without looking and you hit them. They were clearly in the wrong. Can you still be held responsible for the collision?
- At a channelized right-turn island you notice a small yellow sign facing the pedestrians, not you, reading WAIT FOR GAP. What does its presence tell you about that crossing point?
- Someone in a motorized wheelchair is waiting to cross at a pedestrian crossover. Do the crossover rules treat them as a pedestrian or as a vehicle?
Turns & Lane Changes
- A raised island splits the road ahead of you and a black-and-white KEEP RIGHT sign stands at the near end of it. What is that sign settling for you?
- Over one lane on an intersection approach hangs a sign showing left, right and straight-ahead arrows together — ALL MOVEMENTS PERMITTED. If everything is permitted, why post a sign at all?
- You need to reverse direction on a two-lane road and decide a three-point turn is safer than a U-turn because it is slower. Does that change where you are allowed to do it?
- You turn into a one-way street the wrong way and are stopped by police. Setting aside the demerit points, what is the set fine for driving the wrong way on a one-way road outside a community safety zone?
- A cyclist ahead of you sticks their right arm straight out to the right. Drivers signalling a right turn by hand are supposed to raise the left arm upward, so what is the cyclist indicating?
- A driver lets you merge in front of them, so you flick your turn signal on and off a couple of times as a thank-you wave. Is using the signal that way allowed under the Highway Traffic Act?
- Cranking the wheel round for a sharp corner, some drivers spin it with an open palm. What technique does the Driver's Handbook actually prescribe for a sharp turn?
- Where does the Driver's Handbook tell you to place your hands on the steering wheel, and what should you be able to do without letting go?
Demerit Points
- Ontario's demerit-point schedule includes an offence listed simply as "failing to share the road." How many points does a conviction carry?
- A G1 or G2 driver is convicted of a Highway Traffic Act offence carrying four or more demerit points — for the third time. Under Ontario's escalating penalties, what happens?
- You are driving four teenagers home and one of them rides in a rear seat position that has no seatbelt fitted. Does that put demerit points on your record, or theirs?
- Ontario's demerit schedule has exactly one offence worth five points, and it does not apply to ordinary drivers at all. What is it?
- Speeding can carry six demerit points in two different situations. What are they?
- You hold an Ontario licence and are convicted of a driving offence on a road trip. Besides other Canadian provinces, which two places outside Canada will put demerit points on your Ontario record?
Passing & Overtaking
- Approaching a pedestrian crossover, you pass a sign reading "NO PASSING HERE TO CROSSING". What is it doing, beyond restating a rule you already know?
- You're on a highway with an 80 km/h or higher speed limit, divided into clearly marked lanes, with two or more lanes travelling your direction. Two snow plows are working side by side (in echelon), each occupying a lane. Under HTA Section 148.1, when are you allowed to overtake them?
- Some distance after a "do not pass" sign, you come to a white square sign carrying a green permissive symbol, sometimes with a small tab reading "PASS WITH CARE". What does it mean?
- A grader is working slowly along your side of a rural road, and a worker in a vest steps out and waves you around it, onto the gravel shoulder. Passing by driving off the roadway is normally prohibited. May you go?
- On a narrow rural road you pass a sign showing a car overtaking a bicycle inside a red ring. A cyclist is riding ahead of you and there is oncoming traffic only occasionally. What does the sign require, and how will you know when it stops applying?
- On a three-lane highway where the centre lane is a passing lane, you see a sign reading "YIELD CENTRE LANE TO OPPOSING TRAFFIC". You are on the single-lane side and want to pass. What does it require of you?
- You are overtaking a tractor-trailer on the highway and, as you draw alongside, the steering feels suddenly light and unsettled. What is happening?
- A streetcar is stopped ahead of you at a stop where a raised area beside the tracks has been set aside for passengers to wait and board. Does the usual two-metre rule apply here?
Parking & Stopping Rules
- The Driver's Handbook recommends the "Dutch reach" method for opening your door after parking. What does it involve?
- You need to twist right around in your seat to see properly while reversing, and your seatbelt is stopping you. May you unbuckle?
- You are driving someone who holds a valid Accessible Persons Parking Permit. Does displaying that permit let you stop or stand anywhere a NO STOPPING or NO STANDING sign is posted?
- You pull off the roadway of a provincial highway to park. Which way should the car be facing, and how should it sit relative to the road edge?
- A sign at the curb reads LOADING ZONE and shows a truck symbol, with an arrow at the bottom pointing to the right. You are in an ordinary car and want to leave it there while you run into a shop. May you?
- Your car dies in a spot where stopping is normally prohibited, and it cannot be moved. Are you automatically in breach of the parking and stopping rules?
- You are driving along a stretch of curb signed NO STOPPING when the car ahead of you brakes for a red light and you have to stop behind it. Have you just broken the restriction?
- You leave your car standing at the roadside on a slight slope, in neutral with the engine off and the parking brake not set. It rolls forward into a fence. Beyond the damage, have you broken a rule of the road?
Your Vehicle & Getting Ready
- One of your two headlights has burned out. The other works fine and the road you take home is well lit. Is it acceptable to keep driving until the weekend?
- Your rear window is completely blocked by cargo, so you can't see through it at all. Does HTA Section 74 allow you to keep driving?
- A vehicle (such as a rural mail-delivery car) is equipped with right-hand drive. What does HTA Section 63 require, unless the vehicle has a specific mechanical or electrical turn-signal device instead?
- A driver holds a valid amateur ("ham") radio operator certificate issued under the federal Radiocommunication Act. Does Ontario's hand-held device ban prohibit them from holding and using a two-way radio while driving?
- A piece of trim falls off your ordinary (non-commercial) car while you're driving on a highway — you didn't notice anything wrong beforehand. Under HTA Section 84.2, are you guilty of an offence just for that happening?
- A police officer has reasonable grounds to believe a vehicle contains a device meant to evade or interfere with an electronic toll system. Under Highway Traffic Act, Part X.1 (Toll Highways) — Section 191.3(2), what can the officer do?
- A Canada Post employee delivers rural mail from a vehicle, repeatedly stopping and starting at each mailbox along the route. Does Regulation 613 give them any specific seatbelt exemption for this work?
- A bike rack mounted on your rear bumper partly blocks your licence plate. Does the Act have anything to say about this?
- A product marketed as a "plate cover" is designed specifically to prevent red light cameras and electronic toll systems from photographing or reading your licence plate clearly. Is using one legal?
- What do the seatbelt exemptions for ambulance attendants and firefighters in the patient compartment or behind a fire truck's driver's cab have in common?
- Under HTA Section 66(1), what two specific pieces of equipment must every motor vehicle (other than a motorcycle) have?
- A family without their own child car seat hails a taxi, and the child ends up riding without one. Is the taxi driver in violation of Ontario's child car seat requirements?
- You're hauling a load of firewood in an open trailer, not covered or tied down. Does the Highway Traffic Act have anything to say about this, beyond commercial trucking rules?
- Your load overhangs the rear of your vehicle by more than 1.5 metres. What does Section 111(1) require you to mark it with?
- HTA Section 73(3)'s window-tint rule for the windows beside the driver's seat is framed around a specific test. What is it?
- You keep the original vehicle permit for your car filed safely at home and carry a photocopy of it in the glove box instead. A police officer stops you and asks for the permit. Have you met the requirement?
- You have cannabis in your vehicle that you're not using while driving. What makes transporting it illegal?
Warning Signs
- A yellow diamond warning sign shows a fire truck symbol with an arrow pointing onto the roadway from the right. What should you be ready to do?
- A merge warning sign and a right-lane-ends warning sign both involve a lane joining another. What's the key difference in what caused each situation?
- Ontario's warning signs are organized into lettered series (Wa, Wb, Wc, and so on) in the traffic manual that governs them. What does this series letter tell an engineer choosing a sign?
- How does a chevron (arrowhead) alignment sign differ from a standard sharp-turn warning sign?
- A yellow diamond warning sign shows a bus symbol with an arrow pointing onto the roadway from the right. What should you be ready to do?
- What is the purpose of a "share the road" warning sign?
- Once you're on a divided highway, why might it matter to notice you're on it, rather than an undivided road?
- What generally has to be true before a warning sign is installed at a location?
- How does this sign differ from the crossbuck sign posted right at a railway crossing?
- A small rectangular plate showing a number like "40" is posted directly under a curve warning sign. What is it telling you?
- Why might the same type of warning sign be placed farther from the hazard on a higher-speed road than on a slower residential street?
- How does a distance tab, posted under a warning sign, differ from an advisory speed tab?
- A warning sign marks a school crossing ahead where a crossing guard is on duty. Whose direction takes priority?
Freeway Driving
- A delivery van with a driver and a passenger wants to use an HOV lane. Is meeting the two-person requirement enough?
- After an hour at freeway speed you take an exit ramp posted at 50 km/h, and 50 feels absurdly slow. What is the Handbook's name for what is happening to you?
- Which of these would you never legally meet travelling along Highway 401 or the Queen Elizabeth Way?
- Waiting on a freeway entrance ramp in rush hour, you find a traffic signal partway down the ramp — one head high on the right and a second mounted unusually low on the left. Three cars are ahead of you and it goes green. How many of you get through?
- Bicycles are banned from Ontario's 400-series highways. Is there anyone at all who may legally ride one on a short stretch of such a highway?
- A police officer pulls you over for using an HOV lane alone. Besides the ticket, what are you required to do — and why can't you simply pull out of the lane where you are?
- The Handbook gives a specific target for how far ahead to be looking on a freeway, and it is measured in time rather than distance. What is it?
- On the approach to a freeway entrance ramp, a yellow sign reads RAMP METERED WHEN FLASHING and its amber lights are going. What should you be ready for?
School Zone & Railway Signs
- Approaching a level crossing you cannot see yet, amber beacons are flashing on a sign reading PREPARE TO STOP. Is there time to stop, or should you press on and clear the tracks?
- There is no permanent crossover marked outside a school, but a guard is standing in the road holding a stop sign. What has that made the crossing, and what do you owe it?
- Approaching a level crossing that sits just before a busy intersection, you see a regulatory sign with a red interdictory ring meaning "do not stop on tracks". Traffic ahead is backed up past the crossing. What should you do?
- On a rural road parallel to a freeway you keep passing small roadside signs showing nothing but a seatbelt symbol, in places where a seatbelt reminder makes little sense. What are they really?
- Below the white X-shaped railway crossbuck at a level crossing, you notice a small tab showing the numeral 2. What is it telling you, and why should it change how you cross?
- A deer crossing sign carries a small yellow tab beneath it reading NIGHT DANGER. What has the road authority added by putting it there?
- What is this sign warning you about?
- A bus and a school bus each fail to make the required stop at a railway crossing. How do their set fines compare?
Intersections & Turns
- Queuing towards a red light, you pass a rectangular yellow sign reading DO NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION at a small side street with no traffic lights of its own. What is it asking of you?
- You are going straight through a T-intersection where a centre lane has opened up for left-turning traffic. A sign reads "THROUGH TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT". Why is it there?
- You are first in line to turn left at a red light, with a car facing you also stopped at its red. The instant the lights go green you launch your turn to get across before the oncoming car can move. What have you just done?
- Driving along a through road, you pass an intersection warning sign with a tab beneath it reading HIDDEN INTERSECTION. You can see the side road perfectly well. Who is hidden from whom?
- You are turning left, and the driver coming the other way is also turning left. You meet in the middle of the intersection. How should the two of you pass each other?
- At the intersection ahead you see a white square sign showing a straight-up arrow inside a red ring with a line through it. You had intended to carry straight on. What are your options now?
- Before entering an intersection, the Handbook's safety list names more than the roads to check. What else does it tell you to look at?
- A pedestrian is standing at an ordinary crosswalk at a signalized intersection — not a marked pedestrian crossover, and no crossing guard is present. Are you legally required to stop and wait for them to clear the entire roadway before proceeding, the same as you would at a pedestrian crossover?
Traffic Lights & Signals
- A tall signal head ahead of you carries several lenses and you are far enough back that you cannot yet make out the colours — only which lens is lit. Can the position alone tell you anything?
- You are stopped at a red light a short distance beyond a level crossing when the crossing bells start and, moments later, your light turns green out of its usual order. What has happened?
- You are stopped in a lane that has both an ordinary traffic signal and, mounted beside it, a smaller signal displaying bicycle symbols. The bicycle signal goes green while yours is still red. May you move off?
- Ontario's pedestrian signals use a hand and a walking figure. What colours are they, and can both ever be shown at once?
- You are stopped at a red light on a one-way street, waiting to turn left onto another one-way street, and you notice a sign beside the signal showing a left-turn arrow, a red signal lens and a red interdictory ring. What does it change?
- At an intersection with its own separate signal head for the left-turn lane, your green left arrow has ended and gone red, while the through traffic beside you now has a green light. A gap opens in oncoming traffic. May you turn left?
- At a flashing red light you make a proper full stop, then pull out in front of a vehicle that was already close. You did stop. Is there anything to charge you with?
- At an intersection you see a circular red light lit at the same time as a green (or amber) turn arrow, on the same signal head. Is this a malfunction?
Pavement Markings
- The road ahead narrows and the painted lines angle across to guide you over. Should you expect a warning sign as well, or do the lines do the whole job?
- At a stop sign, the white stop line is painted noticeably back from where the cross road actually begins. Why is it set back rather than right at the edge?
- A yellow sign warns CENTRE LINE MARKING ENDS. Does that mean the road is about to become one-way, or something else?
- Words painted on the road look stretched out and oddly tall, and a two-word message seems to be written back to front as you drive over it. Are both of those deliberate?
- Apart from hills and curves where you simply cannot see far enough, where else should you expect to find a solid yellow no-passing line on a two-lane road?
- You are driving a stretch of two-lane road with a solid yellow barrier line beside the centre line. You pass a plaza entrance and then a side street. Which of the two, if either, breaks the solid line?
- Approaching a railway crossing that has gates or signal lights, you notice a large white "X" painted on the pavement of your lane, well before the tracks themselves. What is this pavement marking for?
Stop & Yield Signs
- At a busy intersection you know has traffic lights, someone has set up a STOP sign on a portable stand facing your lane. What does that tell you about the intersection right now?
- Crossing a divided highway with a wide median, you stop at a STOP sign for the first roadway, cross, and then find a YIELD sign facing you in the median before the second roadway. Is that a mistake?
- You are on a freeway entrance ramp and, unusually, there is a YIELD sign at the end of it. What should you read into that?
- You have come to a full stop at a stop sign. A car is approaching on the cross street but is still well down the road. Must you wait for it to pass before you go?
- You come to a genuine full stop at a stop sign, but well past the stop line. Is that a lesser offence than not stopping at all?
- A rural level railway crossing has no gates and no flashing lights — just a stop sign posted right at the tracks. No train is anywhere in sight or sound. Do you still have to make a full stop?