Florida DMV Practice Test 2026

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Treat the whole marked area as a barrier and cross only where there is an opening

Two sets of double yellow lines with a space between them mark a painted median. It carries the same meaning as a concrete divider: you cross it only where the markings are interrupted for turns.

The gap in the middle looks like usable road, and it resembles a two-way left turn lane. The turn lane has a broken yellow line on its inner edge; a painted median is solid on both inner edges and may not be entered.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Stop first, then make the turn when it can be done safely

A flashing red arrow is a stop sign for that one movement: come to a full stop, then complete the turn yielding to oncoming traffic and to pedestrians.

The two flashing arrows get swapped. A flashing yellow arrow means yield and go without stopping; a flashing red arrow requires the stop first, and rolling it is the same offence as rolling a stop sign.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Exactly where to stop when the light is red

It marks the stopping point on a red signal — usually pulled back so that turning trucks, trains or cross traffic have room.

It is not a stop sign. On green you continue without stopping.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — At this sign you may keep rolling if the way is genuinely clear; at a STOP sign you must halt every time

The downward triangle requires you to slow, be ready to stop and give way — a full stop only if traffic or pedestrians make one necessary. The octagon requires a complete stop on every approach, clear road or not.

Rolling through a stop sign because the road looked empty. The clear-road exception belongs to the yield sign and never to the octagon.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Yield ahead — be prepared to give way

Yield line triangles mark where you should give way, commonly at roundabouts and at crosswalks with a yield requirement.

They are often mistaken for a decorative crosswalk marking, and drivers roll into a roundabout without looking left.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — A one-way road is about to become two-way

It tells you oncoming traffic will now be sharing your roadway. Passing and lane position have to change accordingly.

After a stretch of one-way driving, drivers keep using the full width of the road. That habit is what this sign is trying to break.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — You may not park here

The letter P inside a red circle with a diagonal slash is the symbol form of NO PARKING. The P on its own would point you towards parking; the red circle and slash reverse it into a prohibition.

Seeing the P and reading the sign as permission. On a regulatory sign the red slash always cancels the symbol underneath it.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Come to a complete stop, then yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to traffic already on the cross street

The permission to turn on red is an exception granted only after a full stop. You are joining traffic that has the green, so everyone already lawfully in the intersection or crosswalk goes first.

Drivers treat a permitted right on red as a yield sign and roll through it. The stop is the condition of the permission, not a formality — and pedestrians crossing with the walk signal are the ones hit when it is skipped.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — You are approaching a work zone, where fines are often doubled

Orange is reserved for temporary traffic control in construction and maintenance zones. Expect workers, lane shifts and reduced speed limits; many states double the fines for violations inside a work zone.

Orange does not mean the road is closed — it means conditions have temporarily changed.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — A lane reserved for high-occupancy vehicles at posted times

The diamond marks an HOV or carpool lane. Signs at the entrance give the occupancy requirement and the hours it applies.

The restriction usually applies only during posted hours, and outside them the lane is open — but entering or leaving it across a solid line is a separate violation.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — A school area or school crossing is ahead, so watch for children and be ready to slow or stop

The five-sided pentagon shape is used for school warning signs and nothing else, so the outline alone identifies it from a distance. Children step off curbs without checking, so cover the brake and scan both sides of the road.

Expecting the sign itself to require a stop. It is a warning; where a lower school speed limit applies it is posted separately on its own sign.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Away from the kerb, so the car rolls back into it

Facing uphill the car rolls backwards, so the wheels are turned out and the rear of the tyre catches the kerb.

With no kerb at all, the wheels are turned toward the edge of the road in both cases — the kerb is what changes the answer.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Lane changes are permitted when it is safe

Broken means permitted. White means the traffic beside you is going the same direction.

Drivers who conflate broken white with broken yellow think they may cross into oncoming lanes to pass on any broken line.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Illegal without the required placard or plate, however briefly

Accessible spaces are reserved by permit, not by duration. There is no short-stay exception, and the fines are among the highest of any parking violation.

Hazard lights are widely believed to legalise a brief stop. They signal a hazard; they do not grant permission.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Carry on past the intersection and find another legal route back to the street you wanted

The slashed left-turn arrow makes that movement illegal at that intersection for every driver, whatever the traffic or the signal is doing. The usual remedy is to continue and use later turns to come back around.

Assuming a turn restriction only applies at busy times or when traffic is coming. Unless a plaque states hours, it applies at all times.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — A 9% reduction in the cost of the civil penalty

The reduction is 9%, and it applies to violations that do not require a mandatory court appearance.

The course reduces the cost; it does not erase the violation.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — You may not cross it to pass another vehicle

Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions. Solid means no passing on your side; broken means passing is allowed when it is safe. You may still cross a solid yellow line to turn into a driveway.

Whether the road 'looks clear' is irrelevant — a solid line marks a stretch where sight distance is legally considered insufficient.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Only while the beacons on the sign are flashing

The WHEN FLASHING legend makes the lower limit conditional. The beacons are set to run during the periods when children arrive and leave, and the reduced limit is in force exactly while they flash; outside those periods the road's normal limit applies.

Waiting to see a child before slowing. The limit binds while the beacons flash whether or not anyone is in sight, and a child stepping out from between parked cars is the situation it exists for.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Treat it as a four-way stop

A signal that is completely dark is legally treated as a four-way stop. Every driver stops, then proceeds in the order they arrived, yielding to whoever got there first.

A dark signal is not the same as a green light or an uncontrolled intersection — you must stop.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Continue around if you cannot safely move to the outer lane, and exit next time

Vehicles in the outer lane have priority for the exit. Going around again costs a few seconds; cutting across is a side-impact collision.

Missing an exit feels like a failure that must be fixed immediately. In a roundabout the correction is free.