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Nevada Car / Permit: Safe Driving Practices practice test
Following distance, scanning, blind spots, using your lights, and the habits that prevent crashes and keep you in control.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. Which of these belongs on your checklist before you start the engine?
Correct answer: Adjusting the seat and checking that the rear and side mirrors are aimed correctly
Seat position and mirror aim should be settled while the car is still parked, along with clean glass and buckled belts, so nothing needs fixing once you are moving.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Getting Ready to Drive
2. You are driving a car with four-wheel anti-lock brakes and must stop hard. What is the correct technique?
Correct answer: Press the pedal hard, hold it down, and steer where you want to go
The system pulses the brakes far faster than any driver could. Your job is steady, firm pressure while you steer around the hazard.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Anti-Lock Braking Systems
3. How far ahead should you be scanning during ordinary city driving?
Correct answer: At least twelve seconds
Looking a dozen seconds down the road lets you read traffic patterns early. At freeway speeds the handbook stretches that scan to twenty or thirty seconds.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Defensive Driving Tips
4. At what distance must you switch from high beams to low beams for an oncoming vehicle in Nevada?
Correct answer: At least 500 feet away
Dim for oncoming traffic while it is still five hundred feet off, and drop to low beams three hundred feet behind any vehicle you are following.
5. The handbook describes a penny test. What does it check?
Correct answer: Whether the tread on a tire is deep enough
Push the coin into the shallowest groove with Lincoln's head pointing down. If tread still covers part of his head, enough depth remains for wet-road grip.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Getting Ready to Drive
6. What happens if a driver pumps the pedal in a vehicle equipped with anti-lock brakes?
Correct answer: The anti-lock function is switched off
Lifting off or pumping disengages the system. Continuous pressure is what keeps the anti-lock feature working during the stop.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Anti-Lock Braking Systems
7. You have just driven through deep water. What should you do about the brakes?
Correct answer: Move slowly in low gear while applying them lightly, testing roughly every 200 feet until they feel normal
Wet linings may grab unevenly or barely hold. Gentle, repeated applications at low speed warm and dry them until braking returns to normal.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 5, Driving Emergencies
8. What does the handbook say about driving with only your parking lights lit?
Correct answer: Drivers should not do it
Parking lights are not made to light the road or mark a moving car. Use headlights instead, and switch them on in rain, snow or fog as well.
9. Why does the handbook tell you to check your stereo volume after starting the engine?
Correct answer: So that ordinary traffic sounds can still be heard
If the music drowns out horns, sirens and tire noise, turn it down. Hearing what is happening around the car is part of driving it safely.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Getting Ready to Drive
10. Where can you find the pounds-per-square-inch figure your tires should be inflated to?
Correct answer: In the owner's manual or on the door jamb on the driver's side
Check the pressure with a gauge before you get in, and compare it against the figure the manufacturer prints in the manual or on the driver's door frame.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Getting Ready to Drive
11. Beyond the hours around sunset and sunrise, when else does Nevada law require headlights?
Correct answer: Whenever people or vehicles cannot be made out clearly at 1,000 feet
Light levels, not the clock alone, can trigger the requirement. If a person or car a thousand feet off is not clearly visible, the headlights must be on.
12. What does the handbook say about wearing sunglasses after dark?
Correct answer: They should never be worn at night
Tinted lenses remove light you cannot spare once the sun is down, so they have no place in night driving.
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