Nevada Traffic Laws and Rules of the Road
Core law the examiner expects you to teach
Nevada's rules track the national model but contain state-specific hooks that questions love. Know the statutory defaults: 25 mph in business and residential districts, 65 mph on highways unless posted otherwise, and reduced limits in school zones when posted or when children are present. Posted signs always control, and the basic speed law requires a speed reasonable for conditions regardless of the number on the sign.
Right-of-way rules: a pedestrian in a marked or unmarked crosswalk has the right-of-way; drivers must yield when entering a roadway from a driveway, alley, or private road; and the first vehicle to arrive at an uncontrolled intersection generally proceeds first. Signal continuously for at least 100 feet before a turn and before every lane change. Right turn on red is permitted after a full stop unless a sign prohibits it; a left turn on red is permitted from a one-way street onto another one-way street.
Other high-yield statutes: stopping for a school bus with flashing red lights (drivers on the opposite side of a divided highway with a physical median need not stop), the move-over requirement for stopped emergency, tow, and highway-maintenance vehicles, the 0.08 BAC threshold (0.04 for commercial, 0.02 for drivers under 21), primary seat-belt enforcement, and open-container prohibitions.
Traps
Questions often swap a default limit for a posted one, or ask who must stop for a school bus on a divided road. Watch for absolute words like "always" and "never" - Nevada law is full of exceptions.
Rule of thumb
At highway speed use a three-second following distance minimum, more at night or in rain. At 65 mph you travel about 95 feet per second, so three seconds is roughly 285 feet - longer than a football field.