Traffic signals — Florida Permit Test

At a red light, come to a complete stop at the stop line and remain stopped until the light turns green.

The other direction is moving on a green, and they are relying on you being stopped.

Come to a complete stop at the stop line. Remain stopped until the light turns green.

Do not stop too far back from the stop line, because some signals only change when sensors detect a vehicle at the line.

Stopping short can leave the light green for everybody else and never for you.

Don’t stop too far away from the stop line. Some signals change only when sensors detect vehicles at the stop line.

After stopping at a red light you may turn right if there is no NO TURN ON RED sign and the way is clear.

The stop comes first. The turn is only allowed out of a stop that actually happened.

After stopping, you may turn right if there is not a NO TURN ON RED sign and the way is clear.

At a red light you may turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street with traffic moving to the left.

Nothing is coming the other way on either street, which is what makes the turn possible at all.

You may turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street that has traffic moving to the left.

Before turning on a red light you must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to oncoming traffic.

A turn on red is permission to move, not permission to go first.

Before turning, you must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians in the crosswalk and oncoming traffic.

A yellow light warns that the light is changing to red, so stop if you can safely do so.

Being in the intersection when it goes red is where the crossing traffic hits you.

Warning—the light is changing to red.

A green light means go only if the intersection is clear, yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk and vehicles already in the intersection.

Green gives you the right to enter, not the right to drive into somebody still crossing.

Go, but only if the intersection is clear.

Approach a green light at a speed that will let you slow down if the light changes, and when turning left you must yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.

A green light you have been watching from far off is a light that has been green a long time.

Approach at a speed that will allow you to slow down if the light changes.

Drivers, pedestrians and bicycle riders must obey traffic signals except when an officer is directing traffic.

An officer standing in the intersection can see things the signal timer cannot.

Drivers, pedestrians, and bicycle riders must obey these signals except when an officer is directing traffic.

If a traffic signal is out of order and no law enforcement is present, treat the light and the intersection as a four-way stop.

A dark signal is not a green light, and treating it as one is how two cars arrive together.

If a traffic signal is out of order and law enforcement is not present, treat the light/intersection as a four-way stop sign

What does a steady red light require?

A complete stop at the line until green. The other direction is moving on a green, and they are relying on you being stopped. Official Florida Driver License Handbook, p.51: “Come to a complete stop at the stop line. Remain stopped until the light turns green.”