Automotive & MechanicsYielding to pedestrians and bicyclists
A traffic check is seeing vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians and reacting to them, and the examiner watches it in every action of the test. Yielding the right-of-way when safety requires it is scored in the parking lot, at every intersection and in every turn. Making a pedestrian or another driver take evasive action is a critical driving error. It is the right-of-way of the California DMV Class C driving test.
Free to startScenarios
- Pedestrians and bicyclists in the parking lot at the start of the test.
- A crosswalk at an intersection or a corner where you turn.
- An intersection with no signs or signals.
- A right turn with a bike lane.
The steps
- In the parking lot, watch ahead, behind, to the left and to the right for vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians.
- Turn your head and look toward drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians when needed.
- Yield the right-of-way to vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians when safety requires it.
- At an intersection with no signs or signals, move your head and eyes to check traffic when a hazard is present. Critical point
- Never make a pedestrian or another driver take evasive action. Critical point
- Never hit a vehicle, object, bicyclist, pedestrian or animal you could safely have avoided. Critical point
- Never drive over the curb or onto the sidewalk. Critical point
- On a right turn with a bike lane, enter the bike lane only after making sure no bicycle is coming, then turn.
- Take your right-of-way when it is safe, without causing confusion or blocking traffic.
- Obey every safety officer, law enforcement officer and firefighter. Critical point
To pass
- Each item here that you miss is marked as an error on the scoring maneuvers; you pass with no more than 15 of them.
- A step marked critical is a critical driving error: a single one fails the test.
Official source
Driving Test Criteria (DL 955)
The California DMV publishes its Driving Test Criteria (DL 955) free: the pre-drive checklist, the scoring criteria and the critical driving errors.
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