The sun has set, but streetlights make the road look bright. What must you do with your car lights?
Correct answer: Turn on the required driving lights
Ohio requires the prescribed lights from sunset to sunrise, even on a well-lit street.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4513.03(A)(1); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Haze makes vehicles and substantial objects impossible to distinguish 1,000 feet ahead. It is daytime and not raining. What is required?
Correct answer: Turn on the required vehicle lights
The 1,000-foot visibility condition is a separate reason to use lights; rain and darkness are not required.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4513.03(A)(2); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your high beams are shining toward an approaching driver. What should you do?
Correct answer: Select a beam that does not glare into the driver's eyes
Ohio requires a beam aimed to avoid glaring rays in an oncoming driver's eyes. Use the appropriate lower beam.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4513.15(A)(1); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
With no traffic signal assigning priority, a person in a crosswalk is still on the opposite half but close enough to be endangered by your car. What is required?
Correct answer: Yield, slowing or stopping as needed
Yielding also applies when a crossing pedestrian approaches closely enough from the opposite half to be in danger.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.46(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A pedestrian crosses midblock outside a crosswalk and should yield to your car. What responsibility do you still have?
Correct answer: Use due care to avoid a collision
A pedestrian's duty to yield does not remove the driver's duty to avoid a collision with due care.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.48(A),(E); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You pass your freeway exit. There is no crash or breakdown emergency. May you back along the shoulder to reach it?
Correct answer: No; continue to a lawful route back
Missing an exit is not an exception to Ohio's freeway backing prohibition. Do not reverse to recover the exit.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.38(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Passengers have finished getting out of your curbside car. May you leave its traffic-side door open while chatting?
Correct answer: No; close it after the necessary passenger unloading
A traffic-side door may not remain open longer than needed to load or unload passengers.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.70(C); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A driver crawls along a clear road, needlessly blocking normal traffic. No safety condition or law requires that speed. Is being below the maximum enough?
Correct answer: No; unreasonably slow obstruction is also prohibited
Ohio prohibits unnecessarily slow driving that impedes normal, reasonable traffic. Safety and legal requirements remain exceptions.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.22(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Traffic speeds up as rain begins. What should guide the distance you leave behind the car ahead?
Correct answer: Speed, traffic and roadway conditions
Ohio requires a reasonable, prudent following distance that accounts for speed, traffic and road conditions.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.34(A), first paragraph; current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
The driver ahead extends a hand and arm straight out horizontally from the car's left side. What is being signaled?
Correct answer: A left turn
A horizontal hand-and-arm signal from the left side indicates a left turn.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.40(A)(1); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A car driver extends a hand and arm downward from the left side. What should you anticipate?
Correct answer: Stopping or decreasing speed
The downward hand-and-arm signal means a stop or reduction in speed.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.40(A)(3); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You park facing downhill beside a curb. In addition to securing the car with its parking brake, how should you position its front wheels?
Correct answer: Toward the curb
For this downhill curbside situation, turn the front wheels toward the curb before leaving the vehicle unattended.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.661(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A funeral procession's lead car lawfully entered an intersection. The light changes before the remaining cars reach it. What must those drivers remember?
Correct answer: They may follow through while exercising due care
The following procession vehicles may continue, but each driver must use due care to avoid vehicles and pedestrians.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.451(B); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Before a highway trip, you discover your car horn does not work. Which requirement applies?
Correct answer: The car must have a working horn
A motor vehicle on a highway must have a working horn audible from at least 200 feet under normal conditions.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4513.21(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A loose item in your vehicle could fall onto the highway. What must you do before moving?
Correct answer: Secure or contain it so it cannot escape
The vehicle must be constructed, loaded or covered to prevent cargo from falling, leaking or otherwise escaping.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4513.31(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A lane is too narrow for your car and a bicycle to travel safely side by side. Must the cyclist hug the edge for you?
Correct answer: No; the cyclist may ride away from an unsafe edge
Ohio does not require edge riding when unsafe or impracticable, including a lane too narrow for safe side-by-side travel.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.55(C); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You find a parking space across a two-way road. May you park your ordinary car there facing against traffic on that side?
Correct answer: No; the car must face that side's direction of travel
An ordinary car must face the direction of travel on its side of the road.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.69(C)(1)(a); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Near a hillcrest, approaching drivers cannot see your ordinary car from 500 feet in either direction. No signal authorizes a turn. May you reverse direction there?
Correct answer: No; the restricted visibility prohibits that turn
Ohio prohibits this direction-reversing turn at a curve or near a hillcrest when the required 500-foot visibility is lacking.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.37(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An unprotected fire hose used at a fire lies across a street. Who must consent before you drive over it?
Correct answer: The fire department official in command
Do not cross the unprotected hose without consent from the fire department official in command.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.73(A); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
May you park on a highway bridge to take a photograph, with no emergency, traffic necessity or official direction?
Correct answer: No, parking on the bridge is prohibited
The statewide parking prohibition includes highway bridges and elevated structures, and highway tunnels.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.68(A)(13); current official section reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
