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Georgia Car / Permit: Signals & Pavement Markings practice test
How to read traffic signals, lane lines, and pavement markings — including yellow and white lines, arrows, and flashing lights.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. You are in the right lane of a four-lane street and two solid white lines separate your lane from the one beside it. What do those lines tell you?
Correct answer: Moving across them into the next lane is not permitted
Georgia marks certain lanes with paired white stripes to control crossing. When that pair is solid, moving across is forbidden; the same pair drawn as dashes would let you shift over when it is safe.
2. A steady yellow traffic light means:
Correct answer: The light is about to turn red — stop if you safely can
A steady yellow light warns that the signal is about to turn red. Stop if you can do so safely; do not try to beat the light.
3. A white bar is painted across your lane a few feet ahead of a marked crosswalk. When you must stop for a sign or signal, where does your car belong?
Correct answer: Behind the painted bar
That painted bar is a stop line. Georgia drivers halt behind it instead of creeping up level with the sign or signal head, which keeps the crosswalk clear for people on foot.
4. A flashing red traffic signal means you should:
Correct answer: Stop, then go when it is safe — like a stop sign
Treat a flashing red light exactly like a stop sign: come to a full stop, then go when it is safe.
5. A center lane bordered by a solid yellow line on the outside and a dashed yellow line on the inside is used for:
Correct answer: Making left turns from either direction
This is a two-way left-turn lane shared by traffic from both directions. Use it only to make or prepare for a left turn, never as a regular travel or passing lane.
6. You reach an intersection where the traffic signal is completely dark and displaying nothing at all. How must you treat that crossing?
Correct answer: As though a stop sign faced every approach
A signal that has quit working entirely turns the crossing into an all-way stop in Georgia. Every approach halts, and drivers move through in turn as gaps allow.
7. A steady green traffic light means you may go, but first you must:
Correct answer: Yield to pedestrians and vehicles still in the intersection
On a green light you may proceed only when the way is clear. Yield to pedestrians and to any vehicles still finishing their move through the intersection.
8. Two solid yellow lines painted down the center of a road mean:
Correct answer: Passing is not allowed in either direction
Double solid yellow lines separate opposing traffic and mark a no-passing zone in both directions. Do not cross them to pass.
9. What should you do at a flashing yellow traffic signal?
Correct answer: Slow down and proceed with caution
A flashing yellow light means caution. Slow down and proceed carefully, watching for cross traffic and pedestrians.
10. A dashed (broken) white line between two lanes tells you that:
Correct answer: Lanes go the same way and you may change lanes when safe
Dashed white lines separate lanes of traffic moving the same direction. You may change lanes across them when it is safe.
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