Carbon monoxide safety tips — Alaska Permit Test
Carbon monoxide safety tips on the Alaska permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Never run a vehicle in a closed garage.
In a closed space exhaust gas builds up fast enough to kill anyone in the garage or the car.
Never run a vehicle in a closed garage.
Never park and run the heater or air conditioner with the windows closed.
A parked car with the engine running can fill with exhaust, and people waiting or sleeping inside never notice.
Never Park and run heater or air conditioner with the windows closed.
Move a victim of carbon monoxide to fresh air and give artificial respiration.
Every breath of clean air pushes the poison out, so getting the person out fast is what saves them.
Move victim of carbon monoxide to fresh air and administer artificial respiration.
On the test
Where should you never run a vehicle's engine?
In a closed garage. In a closed space exhaust gas builds up fast enough to kill anyone in the garage or the car. Alaska Driver Manual, p.81: “Never run a vehicle in a closed garage.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
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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)