A 17-year-old provisional driver wants to take an unsupervised social drive, with no exception applying. During which hours is that drive restricted?
Correct answer: Midnight to 5 a.m.
For an under-18 provisional driver, unsupervised driving is normally permitted from 5 a.m. to midnight. The statute lists specific exceptions for the remaining hours.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(1)–(3); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver finishes a work shift at 12:30 a.m. Does the nighttime restriction prohibit the direct trip home from employment?
Correct answer: No; travel to or from employment is an exception.
The listed employment exception includes driving to, from, or in the course of work. It does not create a general exception for unrelated late-night outings.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(3)(ii); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver is going directly home from an organized volunteer program at 1 a.m. Is that purpose within a nighttime exception?
Correct answer: Yes; travel to or from an organized volunteer program qualifies.
Maryland specifically lists travel to or from an organized volunteer program. Other restrictions and safe-driving duties still apply.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(3)(iv); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An under-18 provisional driver must travel to a 4:30 a.m. athletic training session in which they will participate. Is this a listed nighttime exception?
Correct answer: Yes; travel to participating athletic events or related training is listed.
The exception includes an opportunity to participate in an athletic event or related training session. It is not a general permission for entertainment trips.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(3)(v); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver is accompanied and supervised at 1 a.m. by a licensed 30-year-old with ten years of experience. Does the hour restriction itself bar this trip?
Correct answer: No; the supervised-driving exception applies.
The hour restriction includes an exception for supervision by a licensed driver at least 21. This question concerns a provisional license, not the separate learner-permit supervision rules.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(3)(i); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A provisional driver turns 18. What happens to the under-18 nighttime restriction itself?
Correct answer: It expires on the eighteenth birthday.
The statute ends this hour restriction and its supervision requirement at age 18. This does not remove unrelated restrictions, such as the under-21 alcohol restriction.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(4); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A licensed 20-year-old says a small amount of alcohol is allowed because it is below 0.08. What restriction applies?
Correct answer: No driving with alcohol in the blood under the age-based restriction.
Maryland imposes an alcohol restriction on every licensee under 21, regardless of driving record. The adult per-se threshold is not permission for this driver to consume alcohol and drive.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(b)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A driver turns 21 and the age-based alcohol restriction ends. May the driver now drive while impaired by alcohol?
Correct answer: No; the impaired-driving prohibitions still apply.
The end of an age-based restriction does not remove the laws against driving under the influence or while impaired. Legal drinking age is not permission to drive impaired.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-902(a)(1) and (b)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver carries adult friends, with no medical exceptions. One rear passenger refuses a seat belt. May the driver continue?
Correct answer: No; the driver and every passenger must be properly restrained.
The under-18 provisional restriction requires restraint of the driver and every passenger, using a belt or appropriate child seat. The adult passenger’s age does not create an exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d-1)(1)–(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old driver wants to make a nonemergency voice call using a hands-free phone. Is hands-free use allowed under this age-based rule?
Correct answer: No; the rule covers handheld and hands-free devices.
The under-18 wireless-device rule includes hands-free devices. A nonemergency call does not qualify for the 911 exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124(a)(3), (b) and (c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Which call is expressly excepted from the under-18 wireless-device prohibition?
Correct answer: A call to the 911 emergency system.
The statute expressly excludes contacting the 911 system from this prohibition. Ordinary convenience calls do not become emergency calls because the driver is in a hurry.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124(b)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 19-year-old learner, properly supervised, wants to use a handheld telephone for a nonemergency call while operating the car. Is the general adult call-starting exception enough?
Correct answer: No; learners are subject to the separate prohibition.
The statute separately prohibits handheld telephone use by learners and provisional drivers who are 18 or older. The general call-starting exception does not apply to that listed group.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124.2(b), (c)(2) and (d)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
While driving in a roadway travel lane, you want to read a newly received text unrelated to an emergency. Is reading permitted if you do not reply?
Correct answer: No; reading is included in the prohibition.
The provision covers writing, sending and reading text or electronic messages while operating in the travel portion of the roadway. Not replying does not make reading permissible.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124.1(b)–(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old has held a provisional license for 30 days. May the driver carry two unrelated 16-year-old friends without a qualified supervisor?
Correct answer: No; the initial young-passenger restriction applies.
The MVA lists an initial 151-day restriction for under-18 provisional drivers carrying passengers under 18. Immediate-family members and qualified supervision are exceptions; neither applies here.
Source: Maryland MVA, Provisional Driver’s License, Rules for driving with a provisional license — under-18 passenger restrictions; reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
During the initial restricted period, a 17-year-old provisional driver takes a younger sibling on an otherwise lawful daytime trip. Does the young-passenger rule prohibit that sibling?
Correct answer: No; immediate-family passengers are excepted.
The MVA’s passenger restriction excepts immediate-family members. Other restrictions still apply.
Source: Maryland MVA, Provisional Driver’s License, Rules for driving with a provisional license — under-18 passenger restrictions; reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your license requires corrective lenses. You left them at home but think the road looks familiar. What should you do?
Correct answer: Do not drive until you can meet the restriction.
A driver may not operate contrary to an MVA-imposed license restriction. Familiarity with the route does not remove a corrective-lenses requirement.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(a)(1) and (h); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your license requires an ignition interlock. May you borrow a friend’s ordinary car without the device when the restriction provides no exception?
Correct answer: No; the borrowed car must also meet the restriction.
The interlock restriction concerns the vehicle you drive, not merely ownership. A vehicle without the required device cannot be substituted just because it belongs to someone else.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(k); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
What blood alcohol concentration at the time of testing meets Maryland’s definition of under the influence of alcohol per se?
Correct answer: 0.08 grams or more per 100 milliliters of blood.
The per-se definition uses 0.08 or more in the stated blood units. Lower readings are not a guarantee of safe or lawful driving; impairment and license restrictions are separate issues.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §11-174.1(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You know your prescribed medicine has made you unable to drive safely. Does having a lawful prescription by itself allow you to drive?
Correct answer: No; lawful use does not excuse knowingly unsafe impairment.
The law prohibits drug impairment that prevents safe driving. Where the driver knows of that impairment, lawful entitlement to use the medicine does not supply the claimed defense.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-902(c)(1)(i) and (iv); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A combination of medicine and alcohol makes a driver unable to operate safely. Is the mixture covered by Maryland’s impairment law?
Correct answer: Yes; combinations of drugs and alcohol are covered.
The provision expressly covers a drug, combinations of drugs, and drugs combined with alcohol when the person is so impaired that safe driving is not possible.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-902(c)(1)(i); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An adult driver is impaired by alcohol but argues that a reading below 0.08 makes driving automatically lawful. Is that correct?
Correct answer: No; driving while impaired is separately prohibited.
The law separately prohibits driving or attempting to drive while impaired by alcohol. A number below the per-se threshold does not establish an automatic safe-driving exemption.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-902(b)(1)(i); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Under the current Maryland reckless-driving provision, driving at least how far above the posted limit is itself a listed reckless-driving condition?
Correct answer: 30 mph above the posted limit.
The current provision expressly lists a speed at least 30 mph above the posted limit. Smaller excesses can still violate speed laws or be unsafe; this is not permission to exceed the limit.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-901.1(a)(3); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A driver handles a car carelessly in a way that endangers people or property. Which driving offense does this definition describe?
Correct answer: Negligent driving.
Maryland defines negligent driving by careless or imprudent operation that endangers people or property. It is not limited to conduct that has already caused a collision.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-901.1(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
During one continuous drive, a driver illegally follows too closely, runs a red light and violates a passing rule. Can that combination meet Maryland’s aggressive-driving definition?
Correct answer: Yes; three listed offenses in one continuous driving period can qualify.
The definition requires three or more of the listed offenses at the same time or during a single continuous period of driving. These three are among the listed categories.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-901.2(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A uniformed officer is identifying you as the driver. May you give a relative’s name instead of your own to avoid a citation?
Correct answer: No; giving another person’s or a false name is prohibited.
The statute prohibits giving another person’s name or a false or fictitious name to a uniformed officer attempting to identify a driver.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-112(e); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
