Theory test questions: Road safety
400 official Israeli theory test questions on road safety, with the correct answer to each.
- When driving in reverse:
Correct answer: You are permitted to use another person to guide you.
- Under which circumstances should you slow down your driving?
Correct answer: When your vehicle or any passerby and property are at risk.
- When you arrive with your vehicle to the place that is illustrated in the following picture, you must:
Correct answer: Slow down.
- According to the following picture you are obliged to:
Correct answer: Slow down.
- When is it permitted to perform an emergency stop?
Correct answer: In order to prevent a road accident that cannot be prevented in any other way.
- How would you conduct yourself when approaching the intersection that is depicted in the following picture?
Correct answer: Slow down and even stop if necessary in order to give right-of-way.
- How would you conduct yourself under the situation that is depicted in the following picture?
Correct answer: Stop before the junction and do not enter into it.
- What should you do when you are about to start driving after stopping or parking at the side of the roadway?
Correct answer: You should signal appropriately and ensure that you can merge with the traffic without endangering other road users.
- Driving down a long steep hill on a n Inter-urban road
Correct answer: Sow down, change down to a lower gear according to the gradient
- Which type of vehicle is allowed to stop or be left standing on the hard shoulder of an inter-urban road which is marked as a main road?
Correct answer: A vehicle engaged in public works and an I.D.F vehicle - for the purpose of fulfilling their duties.
- When driving in reverse:
Correct answer: You are permitted to use another person to guide you.
- Where is it permitted to park LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) fuelled vehicles?
Correct answer: In LPG-Vehicle permitted parking lots, according to the directions of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
- Does a-can of beer have a lesser effect on a driver compared to a whisky shot?
Correct answer: No. They both have a more or less equal effect on the driver’s ability to drive safely.
- “Beer is not considered as an alcoholic drink”:
Correct answer: Incorrect. The influence of beer is similar to that of any other alcoholic drink.
- “You are allowed to drive under the influence of alcohol, as long as you do not mix different types of drinks”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Incorrect. The determining factor is the level of alcohol in the blood in relation to the legally allowed level.
- “Alcohol slows down the driver’s ability to respond”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- “Drinking alcohol disrupts the driver’s judgment and as a result he takes more risks”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- “Drinking alcohol disrupts the coordination between limbs”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- “Drinking a large quantity of alcohol disrupts the driver’s peripheral vision and field of vision”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- ”When you drink alcohol, it will take you more time to recover from dazzling(blinding)”. Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- “Drinking alcohol has an adverse effect on eyesight”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- “Drinking alcohol impairs the driver’s ability to estimate distances and speeds”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct.
- Does drinking alcohol cause sleepiness?
Correct answer: Yes.
- “Drinking alcohol has a negative effect on the driver’s ability to react”: Correct or incorrect?
Correct answer: Correct. Alcohol is a suppressive drug.
- What is a reasonable speed on a freeway(Motorway)?
Correct answer: A speed that takes into account traffic conditions, and that doesn’t exceed the permitted speed limit on that road.
- Driving on a wet road creates:
Correct answer: A danger of skidding and turning-over, as speed increases
- A vehicle driver must slow down when he:
Correct answer: Drives down a steep or long descent.
- Braking distance is the distance the vehicle passes?
Correct answer: From the moment of applying the brakes until the vehicle reaches a complete stop.
- Choose the only correct sentence:
Correct answer: The stopping distance is always greater than the braking distance.
- The danger of skidding on a wet road is greater:
Correct answer: The more worn-out are the tires.
- When parking a vehicle, is it necessary to operate the parking brake (handbrake)?
Correct answer: Always.
- You step on the brake pedal and feel that the service brake (foot brake) is not working. What will you do?
Correct answer: Try to brake using the hand break.
- What are the advantages in looking far ahead?
Correct answer: It allows you to plan your drive according to the road’s condition and to avoid being surprised by other road users.
- How can we avoid danger when we start driving and when we merge with traffic?
Correct answer: By giving an appropriate signal with the winker, looking in all directions and waiting until no one is obstructed.before driving.
- What is the first thing you need to do after entering the vehicle and before starting to drive?
Correct answer: Make sure the hand-brake is applied and adjust the driver’s seat.
- What is the order of actions the driver needs to take before slowing down?
Correct answer: Glance at the mirrors, ease off the accelerator pedal and use the brakes or gears.
- Which factors affect the driver’s decision to shift to higher or lower gear?
Correct answer: The vehicle’s speed, considering traffic condition, road condition and visibility.
- How do you secure a parked automatic-transmission vehicle (except for a vehicle with a robotic gearbox)?
Correct answer: Shift into parking gear (P) and secure the parking brake.
- Before starting to drive, what action needs to be taken by the driver before moving the automatic transmission selector?
Correct answer: Apply the foot-brake, to prevent the vehicle from moving.
- In order to start driving, what is the action the driver has to take before releasing the hand-brake in a vehicle with automatic transmission?
Correct answer: Apply the foot brake pedal, to prevent the vehicle from moving.
- How would you conduct yourself in a vehicle with automatic transmission, when driving down a continuous steep road?
Correct answer: Apply the brake pedal intermittently to slow the vehicle down and shift into a lower gear, depending on the slope.
- How would you start the engine of an automatic transmission vehicle?
Correct answer: Make sure the hand brake is applied, and the gear selector is in (P) or (N).
- Why is it important to drive on the right side of the road?
Correct answer: In order to keep a distance from incoming traffic from the opposite direction, and reducing the risk of “head on” collision.
- What is the advantage of driving on the right side of the road?
Correct answer: It helps to escape quickly to the “hard shoulders” in case of danger.
- What is the advantage of driving on the right side of the road?
Correct answer: You are not preventing other vehicles from overtaking
- How does driving on the right side of the road affect drivers' field of vision?
Correct answer: Keeping to the right improves the field of vision of the drivers in the vehicles behind you.
- What is the advantage of driving on the right side of the road?
Correct answer: You create a safety distance between yourself and oncoming vehicle traffic.
- What risks are caused when you deviate abruptly between lanes?
Correct answer: Risk of hitting a vehicle that you didn’t see before deviating.
- What is required in order to change lanes without causing any disturbance or risk?
Correct answer: The driver should give a timely signal from a sufficient distance, perform a peripheral check in all directions, and glance at the mirrors, before starting to change lanes.
- What is the correct way for changing lanes?
Correct answer: First perform a check and glance at the mirrors, then check the lane you want to pass to, verify that you can pass to it and then deviate moderately (diagonally) to the other lane.
- How should one change lanes?
Correct answer: After checking and taking account of the position and speed of other vehicles in the intended lane.
- What is the order of actions to be taken in order to stop or park?
Correct answer: Check if it is permitted; make a peripheral check and slow down carefully.
- What is the main problem a driver faces when he approaches an intersection?
Correct answer: Many tasks he needs to perform simultaneously, in a short period of time.
- How can a driver handle the many tasks he needs to perform when approaching an intersection?
Correct answer: Slow down before the intersection, look around, and avoid engaging in any activity other than driving.
- How does a multitude of traffic signs before an intersection affect the driver’s response?
Correct answer: The driver is forced to slow down in order to identify the signs and obey their demands.
- In order to overtake safely, the overtaking driver should:
Correct answer: Start overtaking only when the road is clear in a sufficient distance, and verify while overtaking that the road is still clear.
- What is the main risk of approaching an intersection on a wet road?
Correct answer: The vehicle might skid into the area of the intersection due to the wet road.
- How does pedestrian behavior in the area of the intersection affect drivers?
Correct answer: Driver should anticipate in advance possible dangerous behavior from pedestrians in the area of the intersection.
- What are the specific risks and problems in crossing intersections?
Correct answer: Many and various contact points between the different types of vehicle through the intersection.
- Which of the following sentences is correct, as regards to the behavior of pedestrian near an intersection:
Correct answer: The safest place for pedestrians to cross is the pedestrian crossing next to the intersection, because drivers are obliged to slow down in the area of the intersection.
- What is the first action taken by drivers before crossing an intersection?
Correct answer: Making sure that the intersection is clear and that it can be crossed safely.
- What is the most important principle when turning right in an intersection?
Correct answer: To start and to complete the turn close to the right edge of the road.
- What risk is a driver facing while making a right turn?
Correct answer: Two-wheelers might enter the gap to his right during the turn.
- You arrived to an intersection that is not clear:(free)
Correct answer: Stop before the intersection and wait for traffic to clear.
- What are the risks in making a U-turn?
Correct answer: All the answers are correct.
- What should a driver always do before making left a U-turn?
Correct answer: Make sure that the turn is permitted and that it doesn’t cause any traffic disturbance.
- What is the main risk of driving in reverse?
Correct answer: The presence of road users in the driver’s “blind spots” and the chance of hitting them.
- What is a “blind spot”?
Correct answer: Part of the vehicle's circumference in which the driver cannot see or detect road users.
- What is the best way to reduce the dangers whilst driving in reverse?
Correct answer: By taking a proper and continuous all round view and by driving slowly.
- What are the risks of driving in high speeds?
Correct answer: Reduced ability of stopping the vehicle in time in order to prevent an accident, and even loss of control over the vehicle.
- What is the advantage of driving at a low speed during dangerous situations?
Correct answer: The drrivers quicker reaction, braking and stopping times are all shorter.
- What is the effect of driving at a high speed during an accident?
Correct answer: It causes greater force of collision and a more severe impact on humans and damage to property.
- What is the meaning of the term “driving at a reasonable speed”?
Correct answer: Taking account of road and traffic conditions, in a manner that the driver maintains absolute control of the vehicle and can stop safely at all times.
- What problem faces a vehicle driver who is driving at a high speed?
Correct answer: The driver has very little time to properly respond to road events.
- What is the relation between the vehicles speed and the vehicle’s stopping distance?
Correct answer: The higher the vehicle’s speed is, the longer is its stopping distance.
- What is a vehicle’s “stopping distance”?
Correct answer: The distance covered by the vehicle from the time that the driver identifies the risk ahead of him until the vehicle stops.
- What are the components of the stopping distance?
Correct answer: The sum of the reaction time and of the braking distance.
- The driver’s reaction distance is the distance covered by the vehicle:
Correct answer: From the moment the driver identifies the danger ahead until the moment he begins to react to the danger.
- The vehicle’s braking distance is the distance covered by the vehicle:
Correct answer: From the moment the driver steps on the brake pedal until the vehicle comes to a complete stop.
- Keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front of us is required:
Correct answer: In order to prevent a rear-end collision when the vehicle in front stops or slows down.
- What is the distance we are required to keep from the vehicle in front of us while driving?
Correct answer: The required statutory distance in which accident may always be prevented, while taking all the relevant elements into consideration.
- What effect does keeping distance have on the driver’s field of vision?
Correct answer: The greater is the distance we keep from the vehicle in front, the better is our field of vision.
- What effect does driving whilst keeping proper distance from the vehicle in front has on the vehicle’s fuel consumption and wear?
Correct answer: When proper distance is kept – brake wear and engine fuel consumption are reduced,
- What characterizes a state of driving in which proper distance from the vehicle in front is kept?
Correct answer: Less stressed and relaxed driving, which doesn’t cause tiredness, and prevents risks.
- What is a driver always required to do when another vehicle “sits on his tail”?
Correct answer: Verify that the distance he keeps from the vehicle driving in front will allow him to brake moderately and avoid the risk of a collision from behind.
- What is the proven and recommended method for keeping proper distance from the vehicle driving in front of us?
Correct answer: The “two-second count” method.
- When are we required to keep a more-than-customary distance from the vehicle driving in front of us?
Correct answer: When visibility is poor, when driving on a slippery road or when we are tired.
- When is it permitted to pass more than one vehicle during one overtaking maneuver?
Correct answer: When overtaking is not restricted, and there is enough space in the overtaking lane for safe completion of the overtaking maneuver.
- It is prohibited to start overtaking without verifying
Correct answer: Is it permitted? Will I manage to complete it safely, without any doubt?.
- One of the conditions justifying an overtaking of a driving vehicle is:
Correct answer: That the difference in speed between the overtaking and the overtaken vehicles is sufficient to complete the manouver.
- Select the correct sentence:
Correct answer: By keeping proper distance, an overtaking vehicle can enter the space in front.
- When you are overtaking another vehicle on a two-lane two-way roadway:
Correct answer: You take a risk of another vehicle appearing in the opposite lane.
- How would you get the attention of the overtaken vehicle’s driver while overtaking on a freeway (motorway)?
Correct answer: You are permitted, if it is necessary, to use the horn briefly before passing, .
- You are driving in a two-lane one-way street and try to overtake the vehicle driving in front of you. The main risk in deviating to the left is:
Correct answer: Disturbing a vehicle driving in the left lane.
- What are the actions you are required to take, before intentionally pulling onto the “hard shoulder” of a non-urban road?
Correct answer: Good observations mainly to the rear, signaling appropriately and slowing down.
- What are the most important conditions in order to safely pull onto the “hard shoulder”?
Correct answer: That the hard shoulder and the road are in the same height and that the hard shoulder is wide enough.
- What is the correct way for pulling onto a “hard shoulder” which is lower than the road?
Correct answer: Slowing down to a low speed and gradually moving onto the “hard shoulder”.
- Where would you stand your vehicle after being required to pull onto the “hard shoulder”?
Correct answer: As far as possible from the edge of the road.
- What are the preliminary actions a driver must perform while getting back up to the road from the “hard shoulder”?
Correct answer: Observing all traffic on the road, signaling appropriately and gradually moving back on the road.
- What is the first stage in getting back on the road from the “hard shoulder”?
Correct answer: Signaling with the indicator.