After drinking at dinner, you feel alert and offer to drive home. Which plan avoids relying on that feeling?
Correct answer: Arrange a sober driver or another ride.
Feeling confident does not establish unimpaired driving. Food or coffee does not quickly remove alcohol. Arrange a sober driver or other transportation instead of driving after drinking.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 115, physical 117, How Much is Too Much; designated transportation and food not making a driver sober. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
A new cold medicine warns that it may cause drowsiness. What should you do before deciding whether to drive?
Correct answer: Check the warning and ask a pharmacist or clinician about driving.
Nonprescription medicine can affect attention and driving ability too. Check its warnings and get professional advice about its effects; do not test your reaction while driving or drive while impaired.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 117, physical 119, Drugs and Driving; medicine labels, drowsiness and professional advice. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
An adult rides in the back of a modern passenger car in New Jersey, with a working seat belt and no exemption. Does the rear seating position remove the belt requirement?
Correct answer: No; the rear-seat passenger must also buckle up.
New Jersey requires front- and rear-seat occupants to use the applicable restraints. A difference in enforcement rules does not make rear-seat belt use optional. Airbags supplement, rather than replace, the belt.
Source: MVC Driver Safety, Seat Belts; corroborated manual printed40–41 for exemptions and airbag/belt distinction; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
A six-year-old, 48-inch-tall child has outgrown the forward-facing harness seat. In a car with a rear seat and lap-and-shoulder belts, which is the appropriate next restraint?
Correct answer: Use an approved belt-positioning booster in the rear seat.
A booster is the next stage after the child outgrows the harness and before the adult belt fits correctly. This child is under eight and below 57 inches; use the appropriate approved booster in the rear seat and follow the seat and vehicle instructions.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 42, physical 44, Child Passenger Safety Law, under-eight/below57-inch booster stage; corroborated current NJDCF Car Seat Safety, Car Seat Milestones. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
You are involved in a crash and someone appears injured. What is the appropriate immediate response?
Correct answer: Stop, obtain emergency help and remain at the scene without creating another hazard.
Stop and get police and emergency medical help. Stay at the scene, remain calm and avoid obstructing traffic unnecessarily. Whether your car still runs does not remove the duty to respond to the injury crash.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 110, physical 112, What to Do in Case of a Crash; reporting continues on printed111/physical113. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
You strike an unattended parked car in New Jersey. What should you do instead of leaving because no owner is visible?
Correct answer: Notify police and try to locate the parked car’s owner.
The manual directs a driver who hits a parked vehicle to notify police and try to find its owner. An empty vehicle or absent owner is not permission to drive away.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 110, physical 112, Parked Vehicle Crash. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
You park an automatic-transmission car facing uphill beside a curb. Which arrangement helps secure it?
Correct answer: Apply the parking brake, select Park and turn the front wheels away from the curb.
For uphill parking with a curb, the manual calls for the wheels to face away from the curb, the parking brake to be set and an automatic transmission to be in Park. Do not rely on neutral or omit the parking brake.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 57, physical 59, Parking, vehicle facing uphill. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
Rain makes the road slippery while you follow another car. How should you adjust the gap used in good conditions?
Correct answer: Increase it to leave more time and distance to stop.
Poor traction can increase stopping distance. The manual says to increase the following interval in bad weather; its good-condition rule is not a guarantee that the same gap is sufficient in rain.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 95, physical 97, Three Seconds-Plus Rule; Following Distances. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
You are outside an intersection when an ambulance approaches from behind with its siren and emergency lights on. The right edge is clear. What should you do?
Correct answer: Pull safely to the extreme right and stop until it passes.
Yield to the responding emergency vehicle. In this clear-roadside situation, move safely to the extreme right and stop, leaving room for it to pass.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 78, physical 80, Pull Over and Stop for Emergency Vehicles. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
A private car is stationary on the roadside with hazard lights flashing. No officer directs otherwise, and you can safely and legally enter a same-direction lane farther from it. What should you do?
Correct answer: Approach cautiously and change into the nonadjacent lane.
New Jersey’s current Move Over poster includes any stationary vehicle displaying flashing or blinking lights, not only emergency vehicles. Where conditions permit, move into a lane not adjacent to it. Do not make an unsafe lane change.
Source: NJ Division of Highway Traffic Safety, 2026 Move Over poster, sole page, any stationary vehicle with flashing/blinking lights; safe nonadjacent-lane procedure corroborated 2026 MVC manual printed78/physical80; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
A police vehicle is stopped ahead with emergency lights flashing. You cannot safely change into a lane away from it, and no officer directs otherwise. What should you do?
Correct answer: Slow to a reasonable speed below the posted limit and be prepared to stop.
When a lane change is impossible, unlawful or unsafe, MVC directs drivers to reduce to a reasonable speed below the posted limit and be ready to stop if needed. The rule does not require forcing your way into an occupied lane.
Source: MVC Driver Safety, Move over for stationary emergency and other service vehicles, fallback when lane change is impossible/prohibited/unsafe; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
A pedestrian is already crossing in a marked crosswalk on your half of the roadway. You have enough distance to stop safely. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop and remain stopped as required for the crossing pedestrian.
MVC requires stopping and remaining stopped for a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk on, or within one lane of, your half of the roadway. Do not pass a vehicle stopped for the crossing pedestrian.
Source: MVC Driver Safety, Pedestrian Safety is a two-way street, marked crosswalk and half-roadway qualification; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
At an intersection without painted crosswalk lines, a pedestrian is lawfully crossing within the unmarked crosswalk. What should you do?
Correct answer: Yield the right-of-way, stopping if needed to let the pedestrian cross safely.
MVC distinguishes yielding at an unmarked intersection crosswalk from the marked-crosswalk stopping rule. The lack of paint does not remove the pedestrian’s right-of-way; stop when necessary to yield safely.
Source: MVC Driver Safety, Pedestrian Safety is a two-way street, unmarked crosswalk at an intersection; resolves older manual wording without claiming a new statute-wide audit; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
What does the broken white line between the illustrated travel lanes separate?
Correct answer: Two lanes carrying traffic in the same direction.
White lane lines separate same-direction traffic; the depicted arrows also show the same travel direction. Yellow center lines serve the different function of separating opposing traffic.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 216, physical 218, Road Markings, White lines and White dashed lines. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
The yellow center lines in this diagram lie between two travel lanes. What does their color identify?
Correct answer: The division between traffic moving in opposite directions.
Yellow center lines separate opposing traffic. Here the two solid lines also prohibit crossing to pass; they are not same-direction white lane dividers.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 216, physical 218, Road Markings, Yellow center lines and double solid lines. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
A white diamond is painted in a lane. How do you determine whether your vehicle may use that lane now?
Correct answer: Read the posted vehicle, occupancy and operating-hour restrictions.
The diamond identifies a reserved/HOV lane. Posted regulatory signs establish the permitted vehicles or occupancy and applicable hours; the diamond alone does not state a universal occupancy number.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 217, physical 219, Road Markings, White diamonds and posted HOV operating restrictions. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old examination-permit holder drives with a qualified supervising uncle who is not a parent or guardian. May two friends join as additional passengers?
Correct answer: No; without a parent or guardian, only one additional nondependent passenger is allowed.
For this under-21 examination-permit situation, dependents and one additional passenger are permitted; the parent/guardian exception does not apply merely because another qualified adult supervises. Two friends exceed that limit.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 18, physical 20, Examination Permit Restrictions, passengers and age qualification; current MVC young-driver Supervised driving section corroborates the parent/guardian exception. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
An 18-year-old with a New Jersey probationary car license wants to drive home from a social visit at midnight. There is no emergency or employment/religious exemption. Is the trip permitted?
Correct answer: No; midnight is within the restricted 11:01 p.m. to 5 a.m. period.
The ordinary under-21 probationary restriction covers 11:01 p.m. to 5 a.m. A social trip is not a documented employment or religious exemption. Reaching 18 is not the age-based exception.
Source: MVC First Driver License, Unsupervised driving, nighttime restriction and documented work/religious exemption; manual printed18–19 supplies under21 scope; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old probationary driver wants to make a routine social call using a hands-free phone while driving. There is no emergency. Is hands-free use allowed?
Correct answer: No; the novice wireless-device restriction includes hands-free use.
MVC’s probationary pathway prohibits routine use of interactive wireless devices whether handheld or hands-free. Hands-free equipment does not create permission for this nonemergency social call.
Source: MVC First Driver License, Unsupervised driving, interactive wireless devices including hands-free use; current official page read September 29, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old probationary driver uses a family car with front and rear license plates. Which GDL identification must be displayed?
Correct answer: A red reflective GDL decal at the top left of each license plate.
Under-21 permit and probationary drivers must display the two red reflective GDL decals: one at the top-left corner of the front plate and one at the top-left corner of the rear plate. Passing the road test does not end the probationary decal requirement.
Source: 2026 New Jersey Driver Manual, printed 19, physical 21, GDL Decal; current MVC young-driver Unsupervised driving section confirms license-plate decals. Exact cached September 12 edition; selected passage read September 29, 2026. ↗
