During a posted two-person HOV restriction, an ordinary car carries its driver and one passenger. Does that meet the occupancy count?
Correct answer: Yes; the driver counts as one of the two people
The two-person requirement includes the driver. A driver plus one passenger meets that count; continue to follow lane and traffic controls.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-737, subsection A. ↗
ADOT's standard Phoenix-area HOV weekday schedule is posted. Which periods have occupancy restrictions Monday through Friday?
Correct answer: 6–9 a.m. and 3–7 p.m.
ADOT lists 6–9 a.m. and 3–7 p.m. on weekdays as the restricted periods. Read the signs governing the lane you are using.
Source: ADOT, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV): HOV Lane Rule Changed — When are HOV lanes restricted to specific vehicles? ↗
In September 2026, a solo driver has an ordinary alternative-fuel car with Energy Efficient plates and no other exemption. Do those plates alone allow HOV use during two-person restricted hours?
Correct answer: No; that single-occupant exemption ended in 2025
The federal exemption ended September 30, 2025. Alternative-fuel status or Energy Efficient plates alone no longer excuse having fewer than two occupants during restricted times.
Source: ADOT, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV): HOV Lane Rule Changed — What Changed on Sept. 30, 2025? ↗
You see a motorcycle with one rider in an HOV lane during restricted hours. Does Arizona require that motorcycle to carry a passenger to qualify?
Correct answer: No; motorcycles have an occupancy exception
Arizona's HOV occupancy restriction expressly excludes a person driving a motorcycle. Do not assume a solo rider is violating the carpool rule.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-737, subsection B(2). ↗
You borrow a relative's car displaying valid disability plates, but you are not transporting the person entitled to them. May you use a marked accessible space for your own shopping?
Correct answer: No; the valid plates alone do not authorize that use
The marked space is for a vehicle transporting the person issued the valid placard or access plates, with the required display. Borrowing the vehicle does not transfer that eligibility to an unrelated trip.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-884, subsection A. ↗
Your car displays a valid disability placard. May you stop in the striped access aisle beside an accessible parking space?
Correct answer: No; the access aisle must remain clear
The prohibition on stopping, standing or parking in an access aisle includes vehicles displaying access plates or placards. The aisle provides access to an accessible route of travel.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-884, subsection C. ↗
You are chauffeuring a person with a physical disability in a car without a placard. May you momentarily use the marked accessible space solely to load or unload that person?
Correct answer: Yes; this momentary loading or unloading exception applies
Arizona provides this limited exception for momentarily loading or unloading a person with a physical disability. It does not authorize ordinary extended parking or use of the access aisle.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-884, subsection B. ↗
A legally blind pedestrian with a predominantly white cane is crossing your path. What does Arizona require?
Correct answer: Yield and take reasonable precautions to avoid injury
Yield the right-of-way and take reasonable precautions to protect the pedestrian. The rule also covers specified service-animal or sighted-person assistance.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 11-1024, subsection I. ↗
A pedestrian who is blind is not carrying a cane or accompanied by a service animal. Does the absence of those aids remove the person's ordinary pedestrian rights?
Correct answer: No; the person retains the same pedestrian rights
The statute preserves the pedestrian's rights whether or not a cane, service animal or sighted helper is present. Do not assume that every disability is visible or that an aid is required for ordinary pedestrian rights.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 11-1024, subsection I. ↗
A motorcycle occupies part of a traffic lane. May you squeeze your car alongside it in that lane to pass?
Correct answer: No; the motorcycle is entitled to the full lane
Motorcycles are entitled to full use of a lane. Do not drive a car in a way that deprives a rider of that space; plan any pass using a lawful, safe lane change.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-903, subsection A. ↗
Traffic is stopped on a street with two lanes in the same direction and a 45 mph limit. A two-wheeled motorcycle safely filters between stopped vehicles at 15 mph. Is that necessarily unlawful?
Correct answer: No; those conditions fit Arizona's filtering exception
The exception permits safe filtering past stopped same-direction vehicles on a street with at least two adjacent same-direction lanes, a limit no higher than 45 mph, and motorcycle speed no higher than 15 mph. It is not general permission to split moving freeway traffic.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-903, subsection F. ↗
Parked facing downhill at the right curb, which front-wheel position helps prevent rolling into traffic?
Correct answer: Toward the curb
Point downhill wheels toward the curb to help check a forward roll.
Source: California DMV, Driver’s Handbook — Parking on a Hill; general vehicle-control guidance. ↗
Parked facing uphill at a substantial right-hand curb, which front-wheel position helps the curb check a backward roll?
Correct answer: Away from the curb
Angle uphill wheels away; let the tire rest gently against the curb.
Source: California DMV, Driver’s Handbook — Parking on a Hill; headed uphill. ↗
You park on the right side of a hill with no curb. Where should you point the front wheels?
Correct answer: Toward the right-hand road edge
Without a curb, aim toward the road edge to direct a possible roll away from traffic.
Source: California DMV, Driver’s Handbook — Parking on a Hill; no curb. ↗
Before leaving an automatic-transmission car parked on a hill, what should you do besides positioning the wheels?
Correct answer: Set the parking brake and select Park
Apply the parking brake and select Park; wheel angle alone is not enough.
Source: California DMV, Driver’s Handbook — Parking on a Hill; brake and transmission. ↗
On a two-way road, you are 80 feet before a railroad grade crossing and want to move left of center to pass a car. Is that permitted?
Correct answer: No; do not pass left of center there
Arizona prohibits driving left of center when approaching within 100 feet of a railroad grade crossing or traversing it. The section has a one-way-roadway exception; this scenario specifies a two-way road.
Source: Arizona Revised Statutes 28-726, subsections A(2) and B. ↗
