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Wyoming 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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12 sample Safe Driving Practices questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
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1. How can a Wyoming driver with reduced hearing compensate?
Correct answer: Use hearing aids and outside mirrors, and look farther to the sides
Hearing aids and outside mirrors are the two the manual names first, backed up by staying extra alert and looking farther to the sides.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Hearing
2. What does the Wyoming manual recommend for a driver whose night vision is poor?
Correct answer: Keep to well-lighted streets at slower speeds, or drive by day only
Slower speeds help, but crawling along well under the flow of traffic is itself dangerous, so such drivers are told to keep to lit streets at low speeds or drive only in daylight.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Vision
3. How does the Wyoming manual say a driver with poor side vision should compensate?
Correct answer: Turn the head as well as the eyes and look over the shoulder
Eyes alone are not enough. The head has to turn, and there must be a genuine look back over the shoulder before any lane change.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Vision
4. How does a Wyoming driver apply the two-second following rule?
Correct answer: Time two seconds from a fixed point after the vehicle ahead passes it
Pick a fixed point, start counting when the back bumper of the vehicle ahead passes it, and if your front bumper gets there before two seconds have gone by, you are too close.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Isolate your vehicle in traffic
5. A driver is tailgating you on a Wyoming highway. What does the manual suggest?
Correct answer: Increase the space ahead of you and let the driver go by
You cannot control the space behind, so you buy time in front: open up your own following distance, move over to the right lane, and ease off to invite the pass.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Tailgaters
6. What do the four letters of the IPDE method of defensive driving stand for in the Wyoming manual?
Correct answer: Identify, predict, decide, execute
The four steps are to identify what is out there, predict what it might do, decide on a response, and then execute that response smoothly and early.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Safe driving tips (IPDE)
7. You start feeling drowsy on a long Wyoming interstate drive. What does the manual tell you to do?
Correct answer: Stop and take a break
Fresh air and singing along may buy a little time, but once drowsiness sets in you are told to pull off and rest, and to find a room and sleep if you are really sleepy.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Proper driving techniques on Interstates
8. How far ahead does the Wyoming manual say a defensive driver should be scanning?
Correct answer: Ten to fifteen seconds
The target is the stretch of road you will reach in the next ten to fifteen seconds, which you can test by counting to a fixed object beside the road.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Scan ahead
9. How many seconds of warning does the Wyoming manual recommend giving before a turn?
Correct answer: Four to five seconds
Communicating your plan four to five seconds ahead of the turn gives other drivers time to react before you begin the maneuver.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Communicate
10. In the predict step of defensive driving, what does the Wyoming manual advise?
Correct answer: Assume the worst thing that could happen
Assume the worst. If you spot someone getting into a parked car well ahead, expect that driver to pull out in front of you without ever looking.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Safe driving tips (IPDE)
11. What does the Wyoming manual say about driving while overcome by strong emotion?
Correct answer: Anyone who is not in control of their emotions should stay out of the driver's seat
Grief, rage and terror crowd out clear thinking, and someone in that state cannot pick out hazards or make sound decisions, so they should not be driving.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Emotions
12. What does the Wyoming manual call a critical object?
Correct answer: Anything that could make you slow, speed up or turn
Anything at all — a person, a vehicle, an animal or an obstacle — that could force you to brake, accelerate or steer counts as a critical object.
Source: Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual — Definitions
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