Bicycles motorist duties — Alaska Permit Test
Bicycles motorist duties on the Alaska permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Bicyclists have the right to share the road and travel in the same direction as motor vehicles.
A driver who thinks bikes do not belong on the road crowds them, and a squeezed rider has nowhere to go.
Bicyclists have the right to share the road and travel in the same direction as motor vehicles.
Check your blind spots for bicyclists before you turn, parallel park, open a door or leave a curb, and turn your head rather than depending only on your mirrors.
A rider beside your car sits in the space mirrors miss, and an opening door or a turn knocks them down.
Check your “blind spots” before you make a turn, parallel park, open a door or leave a curb.
A bicycle is a vehicle: the rules of the road and right-of-way protect bicyclists, and a driver must yield the right-of-way to them just as to another vehicle.
Treating a bike as less than a car is how drivers cut riders off at corners and driveways.
You must yield the right-of-way to them just as you would to another vehicle.
Children under age 9 lack the physical and mental development to ride safely in traffic, so be careful driving near children on bikes.
Young riders cannot judge speed or gaps yet and may swerve or dart out without looking.
Youngsters under age nine lack the physical and mental development to interact safely in that environment so be careful when driving near children riding bikes.
On the test
What does the Alaska manual say bicyclists have the right to do?
Share the road, going with traffic. A driver who thinks bikes do not belong on the road crowds them, and a squeezed rider has nowhere to go. Alaska Driver Manual, p.49: “Bicyclists have the right to share the road and travel in the same direction as motor vehicles.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Alaska Driver Manual, published by the Alaska Department of Administration, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pdf (Alaska Driver Manual, REV.10/2025, Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/drivermanual/ (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/instruction-permit/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/your-first-alaska-drivers-license/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp?media=print&secStart=2.90.010&secEnd=2.90.990 (2 AAC 90, read 2026-10-04; 2 AAC 90.420(h)(2) sets the knowledge test's retest wait and no figure)