Señales reglamentarias — Significado y Ejemplos (2026)

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: C — Detenerte por completo y luego avanzar cuando sea seguro

El octágono se usa para un único mensaje: ALTO. Debes detenerte por completo antes de la línea de alto, el cruce peatonal o la intersección, y luego avanzar cuando sea seguro.

Una parada «rodada» sigue siendo una infracción aunque la vía esté vacía. Las ruedas deben detenerse.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: B — At the stop line, before any part of your vehicle crosses it

The octagon requires a full stop, and the stop line marks the point where that stop has to happen. Where there is no stop line you stop before the crosswalk, and where there is neither you stop before entering the intersection. Once stopped you may edge forward far enough to see.

Drivers stop where they can see rather than where the line is. Creeping past the line first is still a failure to stop, and it puts your bumper in the crosswalk.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: D — Reducir la velocidad y ceder el paso al tráfico y a los peatones

Un triángulo apuntando hacia abajo siempre significa CEDA EL PASO. Reduce la velocidad, prepárate para detenerte y deja pasar primero al tráfico y a los peatones. Solo debes detenerte si el tráfico lo exige.

Ceder el paso no significa detenerse siempre, pero sí obliga a detenerse si hay tráfico o peatones con preferencia.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: 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.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: A — Every approach to the intersection is controlled by a stop sign, so all traffic must stop

The ALL WAY plaque is used only where every approach to the intersection is stopped. It tells you the cross traffic will stop too, but it gives you nothing extra: you still stop, then take your turn.

Knowing that the other drivers also face a stop sign tempts people to treat their own stop as a formality. The plaque adds information; it never removes the stop.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: D — Poner la obligación de ceder el paso directamente en la línea de visión del conductor

Colocar la señal en el carril y no en la acera es deliberado: una señal en un poste junto a una calle concurrida se filtra visualmente; una en medio de la calzada no.

Algunos conductores la toman por un objeto temporal o decorativo. Lleva una obligación legal de ceder el paso.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: C — The maximum speed the law allows there under ideal conditions

Black on white is the regulatory colour pair, so this sign states a law rather than advice: the posted figure is the fastest you may legally travel on that stretch, and only when conditions are good. Recommended speeds appear on yellow plaques instead.

Reading the posted limit as a speed that is always safe. It is a legal ceiling, not a promise about the road.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: A — The penalty for a speeding violation in this zone is greater than the usual one

FINES HIGHER marks a stretch — typically a work zone, a school zone or a designated safety corridor — where the penalty for speeding is increased. It changes what breaking the limit costs you, not what the limit is.

Reading the plaque as a lower speed limit. The sign above it still gives the limit; the plaque only raises the price of ignoring it.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: C — Turning right at this location

A red circle with a diagonal slash over a symbol prohibits whatever the symbol shows. Here the symbol is a right-turn arrow, so the right turn itself is banned — at any time and on any signal, unless a plaque limits the hours.

Confusing it with NO TURN ON RED, which only bars the turn while the light is red. This sign bars the turn altogether.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: 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.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: B — Cuando no se acerque ningún vehículo a menos de 200 pies (feet)

En una zona residencial de California solo puedes hacer un cambio de sentido cuando no se aproxime ningún vehículo a menos de 200 pies. Nunca se permite en una carretera dividida donde habría que cruzar una barrera, ni donde una señal lo prohíbe.

Señalizar no hace legal por sí solo un cambio de sentido: sigue exigiéndose la distancia libre.

IncorrectoRespuesta correcta: B — Turning around to travel back the way you came

The symbol is a U-shaped arrow crossed out, so the sign prohibits the 180-degree turn and nothing else. A left turn is a different movement with its own sign; unless a NO LEFT TURN sign is posted as well, the left turn may still be allowed.

Treating the no U-turn sign as a no left turn sign. They are separate signs prohibiting separate movements.