Limited access highways — Florida Permit Test

Limited access highways are multiple-lane roads with no stop signs, traffic lights or railroad crossings, and are also called expressways, interstates, turnpikes, toll roads and freeways.

Nothing on them ever makes traffic stop, which is what makes everything else about them different.

Limited access highways—also called expressways, interstate highways, turnpikes, toll roads, and freeways—are multiple-lane roads with no stop signs, traffic lights, or railroad crossings.

Pedestrians, hitchhikers, bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles and motor-driven cycles of 150 cubic centimeters or less are not allowed on limited access highways.

Anything slow on a road where everything else is fast becomes the obstacle.

Pedestrians, hitchhikers, bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and motor-driven cycles/motor scooters (with 150 cubic centimeter displacement or less) are not allowed on limited-access highways.

Every limited access highway entrance has three parts: an entrance ramp, an acceleration lane and a merging area.

Each part has a job, and the acceleration lane is the one drivers waste by entering too slowly.

All limited access highway entrances have three basic parts: an entrance ramp, an acceleration lane, and a merging area.

Merge into traffic when you can do so safely: you must yield the right-of-way to traffic already on the highway.

The traffic on the highway is not required to make room, so the gap has to be found by you.

Merge into traffic when you can do so safely. You must yield the right-of-way to traffic on the highway.

When leaving a highway, get into the exit lane, signal, and slow down in the deceleration lane, checking the posted safe speed for the ramp.

Braking hard on the highway itself is what the deceleration lane exists to prevent.

Slow down in the deceleration lane. Check the posted safe speed for the exit ramp.

Do not make last-minute turns into an exit; if you pass your exit you must go on to the next one.

Cutting across at the last second is a crash, and the next exit costs you a few minutes.

Don’t make last-minute turns into an exit. If you pass your exit, you must go to the next one.

On a limited access highway, drive in the right lane and pass on the left, watching for cars entering and adjusting your speed or moving over so they can enter safely.

A driver joining at speed has a short lane to do it in, and the room has to come from you.

Drive in the right lane and pass on the left.

Never drive across or park on the median, and never stop on the pavement, shoulder or connecting ramp except in an emergency.

Anything stopped on a highway is a still object in a stream of things going 70 mph.

Never stop on the pavement, shoulder, or connecting ramp except in an emergency.

Never back up on an entrance or exit ramp; the only exception is a WRONG WAY or DO NOT ENTER sign or red reflectors on the lane lines, when you must back up or turn around.

Backing up on a ramp is only ever right when the alternative is driving into oncoming traffic.

Never back up on an entrance ramp or exit ramp. The ONLY exception to this is if you see a WRONG WAY or DO NOT ENTER sign or red reflectors on lane lines. You must back up or turn around.

Rear-end collisions are the greatest danger on limited access highways, and in Florida the exits match the mile markers on the highway.

Everything is going the same way at the same speed, so the crash left over is the one from behind.

Rear-end collisions are the greatest danger on limited access highways.

If your vehicle breaks down on a limited access highway you must move it completely off the pavement, and it may stay no more than six hours.

A car left on the shoulder for days becomes the thing a tired driver drifts into.

If your vehicle breaks down, you must move it completely of the pavement. (No more than six hours.)

What does a limited access highway have none of?

Stop signs, signals or railroad crossings. Nothing on them ever makes traffic stop, which is what makes everything else about them different. Official Florida Driver License Handbook, p.63: “Limited access highways—also called expressways, interstate highways, turnpikes, toll roads, and freeways—are multiple-lane roads with no stop signs, traffic lights, or railroad crossings.”