Right-of-Way
Right-of-way is never something you own - Nevada law states who must yield, and the exam tests whether you yield in the right place rather than simply being polite. Most missed items involve left turns, four-way stops and roundabouts.
Intersections
- Four-way stop: first to arrive goes first. Arrive at the same time? Yield to the vehicle on your right.
- Turning left on a green light means yielding to oncoming traffic going straight or turning right, and to pedestrians in your path.
- At an uncontrolled intersection, yield to the vehicle on the right. Where your road ends at a T, you yield to all cross traffic.
Entering traffic and pedestrians
- From a driveway, alley, parking lot or private road, you yield to every vehicle and pedestrian already on the roadway.
- Yield to a pedestrian in a marked or unmarked crosswalk. Do not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk - someone may be crossing in front of it.
Emergency vehicles and roundabouts
- Emergency vehicle with lights and siren: pull to the right and stop. If you are in an intersection, clear it first, then pull over.
- Roundabout: entering traffic yields to traffic already in the circle. Do not change lanes inside it. Right lane for right turns, left lane for left turns and U-turns.
Worked example
You and another car reach a four-way stop at the same moment. You signal for a left turn; the other driver is going straight. The other car goes first, because a left-turning vehicle yields to traffic going straight. Even after it clears, you still must yield to any oncoming traffic before completing your turn.
Traps
- Waving another driver through when the law gives you the right-of-way - it creates confusion and shifts responsibility onto you.
- Turning left on a solid green as if it were a protected arrow.
- Entering a roundabout without yielding to circulating traffic.
- Assuming the wider or busier road automatically has priority at an uncontrolled intersection.