Safe and Civilized Driving Operations (安全文明驾驶操作)
This domain tests the routine operating decisions a small-car driver makes every minute: moving off, changing lanes, overtaking, meeting oncoming traffic, turning, parking and using lights. Subject 4 rarely asks for a bare definition - it places you in a scene and asks what the safe and lawful action is. Most distractors are manoeuvres that are legal somewhere but wrong in the specific scene.
Core operating rules
- Lane changes and starts: mirror, signal, shoulder-check, then move. Signal at least 3 seconds before changing lanes, change one lane at a time, and never straddle two lanes.
- Overtaking: only on the left. You may not overtake a vehicle that is already turning left, already overtaking, or has signalled a left turn or U-turn. Return to the right lane only when the overtaken vehicle is visible in your mirror.
- Meeting traffic: on a narrow slope the uphill vehicle has priority, unless the downhill vehicle has already passed the midpoint. On a narrow mountain road the vehicle not against the hillside goes first.
- Uncontrolled intersections: turning yields to straight-through; a right-turn yields to a left-turn coming from the opposite direction; where paths conflict and nothing else applies, yield to the vehicle on your right.
- Lights: dip to low beam within 150 m of oncoming traffic; alternate high and low beam through unlit bends, humps, bridges and unmarked crossings; in fog use fog lamps with position lamps.
Worked example
You are climbing a narrow single-lane mountain road. A loaded truck is descending and has already passed the midpoint widening. The correct answer is to stop or reverse to the passing place and let the truck continue, even though the general rule favours the uphill vehicle. Reasoning: the exception for a downhill vehicle already committed exists because forcing a heavy descending vehicle to back up is the greater hazard. Read the scene first, then apply the rule.
Traps that cost marks
- Choosing overtake on the right because the left lane is busy - always wrong.
- Applying the uphill-first rule without checking whether the downhill vehicle is already committed.
- Forgetting that U-turns are banned on crossings, bridges, tunnels, sharp bends and steep slopes.
- Leaving the turn signal on after the manoeuvre.
- Treating the expressway emergency lane as a queue-jumping lane.
Multiple-answer items usually combine a legal rule with a courtesy rule; if an option is safe but illegal, or legal but obviously dangerous, it is still wrong.