Gaimen50-question practice tests in the real exam formatWhenever you drive past a pedestrian, you must come to a complete stop.
Answer: ✕ False
Explanation
When passing near a pedestrian, your duty is to keep a safe distance, or to slow down if you cannot. A complete stop is not required.
More questions on “Right of way”
- When passing a child walking alone, it is good practice to sound your horn to warn the child and drive past at the same speed.
- When passing a stopped school or kindergarten bus, you must always come to a complete stop.
- When an emergency vehicle approaches somewhere other than at or near an intersection, you must pull over to the left side of the road and come to a complete stop.
- When an emergency vehicle approaches while you are at or near an intersection, you must keep clear of the intersection, pull over to the left side of the road, and stop.
- On a one-way road, if pulling over to the left would actually get in the emergency vehicle's way, you pull over to the right to give way.
- A road whose center line or vehicle traffic lanes continue through the middle of an intersection is a priority road.
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.