Pavement markings — Florida Permit Test

Unless you are turning, exiting a highway or changing lanes, stay between the lines marking your lane.

The lines are the only agreement between you and the car coming the other way.

Unless you are turning, exiting a highway, or changing lanes, always stay between the lines marking your lane.

A single solid white line marks the right edge of the roadway, and a single solid yellow line marks the left edge on a divided highway or one-way street.

The color of the edge line tells you which side of the road you are actually on.

Single solid white line. Marks the right edge of the roadway.

White lane lines separate lanes of traffic moving in the same direction; yellow lane lines separate lanes moving in opposite directions.

White means everybody around you is going your way. Yellow means somebody is not.

Yellow lane lines separate lanes moving in opposite directions.

You may cross a single broken white line to change lanes when it is safe to do so.

Broken means the choice is yours; solid means the decision has already been made for you.

Single broken white line. You may cross this line to change lanes when it is safe to do so.

You may travel on both sides of a single solid white line, but do not cross it unless you must to avoid a hazard.

It is used near intersections, where a late lane change is how cars get hit from the side.

Single solid white line. You may travel in the same direction on both sides of this line, but do not cross the line unless you must do so to avoid a hazard.

Crossing double solid white lines, and changing lanes across them, is not allowed.

Two solid lines is the state saying there is no safe moment here at all.

Double solid white lines. Crossing a double solid line/ changing lanes is not allowed.

You may cross a single broken yellow line to pass a car ahead of you, only when it is safe.

Broken on a two-way road means the sight line is long enough to get back in.

Single broken yellow line. Stay to the right of the line. You may cross this line to pass a car ahead of you only when it is safe to do so.

Vehicles moving in either direction must not pass or cross double solid yellow lines, though a driver may turn left or pass a bicyclist when it is safe.

Neither direction can see far enough to pass, which is why the ban runs both ways.

Double solid yellow lines. Vehicles moving in either direction must not pass/ cross these lines.

Where double yellow lines are solid on your side and broken on the other, passing is not allowed in your lane.

The line nearest you is the one that speaks to you, and the far one is not your business.

Double yellow lines–solid on right (“your side” of line), broken on left. Passing is not allowed in this lane.

Where double yellow lines are broken on your side and solid on the other, passing is permitted in your lane when it is safe.

The broken line on your side is the permission, whatever the far line is doing.

Double yellow lines–broken on right (“your side” of line), solid on left. Passing is permitted in this lane when safe to do so.

A stop line shows where you must stop, and no part of the vehicle may cross it before the crosswalk.

Stopping past the line puts your hood where people are walking.

Stop lines show where you must stop for a stop sign or red light. You must stop your vehicle before any part of it crosses the line before the crosswalk.

A lane marked with a curved arrow and the word ONLY must be turned in the direction of the arrow; a lane marked with both a curved and a straight arrow may turn or go straight.

The word ONLY is what turns an option into an instruction painted on the road.

Lane is marked with a curved arrow and the word “ONLY”: you must turn in the direction of the arrow.

On a two-way roadway with a center lane, drivers from either direction may use that lane for left turns, and must not use it for passing.

Two lines of cars turning from one lane works. Two lines of cars passing in it does not.

Two-way roadway with center lane: drivers from either direction may use the center lane for left turns; you must not use for passing.

Some highways have reversible traffic lanes for rush-hour traffic, with the direction normally reversed at set times each day.

The lane you drove home in this morning can be carrying traffic at you this evening.

Some highways have reversible traffic lanes to help handle rush-hour traffic. The direction of traffic is normally reversed at set times each day.

When may you leave the lines marking your lane?

Any turn, any exit, or any change of lane. The lines are the only agreement between you and the car coming the other way. Official Florida Driver License Handbook, p.43: “Unless you are turning, exiting a highway, or changing lanes, always stay between the lines marking your lane.”