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Kentucky Car / Permit: Sharing the Road practice test
Driving safely around motorcycles, bicycles, large trucks, pedestrians, and school buses — and knowing who has the right of way.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. You approach a police car stopped on the shoulder with its lights on. On a four-lane road, what does the move-over law ask you to do?
Correct answer: Slow down and, if safe, move into a lane away from it
Move-over laws require you to slow and change into a lane not next to the stopped emergency vehicle when it is safe.
2. How does the law treat a bicyclist riding on the roadway?
Correct answer: As a road user with the same rights and duties as a driver
Bicycles are considered vehicles on the roadway and have the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities as motorists.
3. A truck ahead swings wide to the left before turning right. What should you do?
Correct answer: Wait and give it room until the turn is complete
Trucks often swing left to clear a right turn; never move into the gap by the curb, and wait until the vehicle finishes turning.
4. When passing a bicyclist in a single lane, how much space should you leave?
Correct answer: At least three feet
Leave a minimum of three feet between your vehicle and a bicycle, and keep that distance until you are safely past.
5. Seeing the orange-and-red triangle on a vehicle in a rural area should tell you what?
Correct answer: The vehicle moves slowly, so approach and pass carefully
That emblem marks vehicles going under 25 mph; slow down and make sure it is safe before passing.
6. When you meet a large truck coming toward you, what is the safest lane position?
Correct answer: Keep as far right in your lane as you safely can
Staying to the right when meeting a truck avoids a sideswipe and reduces the wind turbulence that pushes vehicles apart.
7. What following distance should you keep behind a motorcycle?
Correct answer: At least four seconds, and more when wet
Allow a minimum four-second gap behind a motorcycle, increasing it in wet conditions since riders can slow or change lanes quickly.
8. An electric low-speed scooter is designed to reach a top speed of about what on level pavement?
Correct answer: Twenty miles per hour
By definition an electric low-speed scooter is built to go no faster than 20 mph on a level paved surface.
9. How can you tell whether a truck driver is able to see you?
Correct answer: If you can see the driver's face in the truck's side mirror
If you cannot see the truck driver's face in the side mirror, the driver cannot see you either; avoid lingering in that blind spot.
10. The large blind spot directly behind a big truck can extend about how far?
Correct answer: Up to two hundred feet
A big truck's rear blind spot reaches up to 200 feet; if you follow that closely the driver cannot see you and you cannot see ahead.
11. How much of a lane should you allow a motorcyclist you are sharing the road with?
Correct answer: A full lane width of their own
A motorcycle needs the entire lane to maneuver; never try to share the lane with a rider.
12. What is the general rule for operating an all-terrain vehicle on a public highway?
Correct answer: It is generally not allowed on public roads or their right-of-way
ATVs are for off-road recreation and generally may not be driven on public highways or their right-of-way, aside from limited exceptions like crossing.
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