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Hawaii Car / Permit: Right-of-Way practice test
Who goes first at intersections, four-way stops, roundabouts, and crosswalks, and how to yield to pedestrians and emergency vehicles.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. A stop sign faces you where a side street meets a main highway. What is the sign telling you about the other traffic?
Correct answer: That the highway traffic holds priority over you
A stop sign is placed where other traffic holds the right of way. You must halt completely and give way to approaching vehicles on the protected route before going on.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter V, The Rules of Right-of-Way
2. You are pulling out of a private driveway onto a public street. What does the law require?
Correct answer: Stop and give way to the traffic already on the street
Traffic already on the street holds the right of way. You must stop and give way when entering from a driveway, an alley or a farmyard, and the stop must come before you cross the sidewalk area.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter V, The Rules of Right-of-Way
3. What does Hawaii law say about driving through a pedestrian safety zone?
Correct answer: It is banned outright
A safety zone is set apart within the roadway for people on foot and is marked so as to be plainly visible. Driving into or through one is prohibited.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter XII, Your Responsibility as a Driver
4. You are pulling out of a parallel parking space when a passing car strikes you. Where does the manual place the main responsibility?
Correct answer: On the driver leaving the space
The manual states plainly that the driver leaving a parking space carries the chief responsibility for avoiding a collision, which is why looking, signaling and yielding all come first.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter X, Backing Your Vehicle
5. You have gone past your exit while circulating in a roundabout. What does the manual advise?
Correct answer: Carry on round until the exit comes up again
Rather than stopping, reversing or cutting across, simply keep going round the circle until the exit you want comes up again.
6. You are approaching a roundabout. Who has the right of way?
Correct answer: Drivers already circulating inside it
A roundabout is a one-way circular junction in which drivers coming in must give way to the traffic already going round. Every approach carries a yield sign.
7. A person carrying a white cane steps into the roadway ahead of you against the signal. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop, whatever the signal shows
Drivers must stop for a blind pedestrian who is out in the road and is carrying a white cane or working with a guide dog, no matter what the traffic signal happens to show.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter XII, Your Responsibility as a Driver
8. You are waiting to turn left across an oncoming stream of traffic. When must you yield?
Correct answer: To any oncoming vehicle close enough to be a hazard
A left turn has to give way to any oncoming vehicle that is near enough to be a hazard. Only when the gap is genuinely safe may the turn be made.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter V, The Rules of Right-of-Way
9. You are moving into the next lane on a multi-lane street. Who must give way?
Correct answer: You do, as the driver changing lanes
The manual is blunt about this: the driver changing lanes always yields to vehicles that are already in the lane being entered.
10. Two vehicles reach an unmarked intersection at the same moment from different roads. Who goes first?
Correct answer: The vehicle on the right
When vehicles arrive together at an intersection with no signal or sign to sort them out, the driver on the left gives way to the vehicle on the right.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter V, The Rules of Right-of-Way
11. You are about to make a right turn at an intersection that has a bike lane running alongside it. What is required?
Correct answer: Look for cyclists and give way before crossing the bike lane
Drivers must keep clear of bike lanes and look for and yield to cyclists when crossing them. Where a right turn is imminent, the manual says it is better not to overtake the cyclist at all.
12. The vehicle ahead of you in the next lane has stopped so that somebody can cross the street. What are you forbidden to do?
Correct answer: Drive past that stopped vehicle
Passing a vehicle that has stopped to let a pedestrian cross is prohibited by law, because you would be driving into the space the pedestrian is about to occupy.
Source: Hawaii Driver's Manual - Chapter XII, Your Responsibility as a Driver
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