Gaimen50-question practice tests in the real exam formatAs long as you signal with your turn indicators, you may change course even when the vehicle behind you is close.
Answer: ✕ False
Explanation
Even with a signal, you must not change course in a way that would force the vehicle behind to brake hard or swerve to avoid you. The signal is only one of the requirements; a safe gap is the precondition.
More questions on “Overtaking”
- Overtaking means changing course and moving ahead of a moving vehicle in front of you.
- When you are about to change course (change lanes), you must give a signal 30 meters before doing so.
- The signal for changing course must be given about 3 seconds beforehand and continued until the change of course is complete.
- When overtaking the vehicle ahead, you may pass on either the right side or the left side, as long as you have confirmed it is safe.
- When the vehicle ahead is keeping to the center of the road in order to turn right, you may overtake it on its left side.
- At a pedestrian crossing and within 30 meters before it, not only overtaking but also passing is prohibited.
Questions and explanations are written against Japan’s Road Traffic Act and the National Police Agency’s Rules of the Road. These are not official exam questions.