Other driving laws — Georgia Permit Test

Coasting downhill with the gears or the transmission in neutral is prohibited in Georgia.

In neutral the engine stops helping you hold the car back, and the brakes take the whole hill alone.

The driver of any motor vehicle, when traveling down a hill, must not coast with the gears or transmission of the vehicle in neutral.

Wearing a headphone, a headset or anything else that stops you hearing is unlawful while driving in Georgia, and so is wearing anything that blocks your view.

A siren you cannot hear is an emergency vehicle you do not move over for.

It is unlawful to operate a motor vehicle while wearing a headphone, headset, or any other device which would impair the driver’s ability to hear.

A vehicle loaded with so many passengers or so much freight that the driver cannot see out, or cannot work the controls, may not legally be driven in Georgia.

A load piled against the back window takes away the mirror you were going to change lanes with.

If a vehicle is overloaded with passengers or freight so as to obstruct the view of the driver or interfere with the mechanical operation, it cannot be legally driven.

Opening a door on the traffic side of a parked vehicle is prohibited unless it is safe and can be done without getting in the way of traffic, including any cyclist riding past the parked cars.

A door swung open into a bike lane is a wall that appears in front of a rider with no time left.

Opening the doors of a vehicle on the side on which traffic is moving is prohibited unless it is safe to do so and unless it can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic, including bicyclists that may be operating close to the lane of parked cars.

Crossing the dividing section, barrier or unpaved strip between two roadways anywhere other than an authorized opening or crossover is unlawful in Georgia.

You come out of a median facing traffic that has no reason to expect a car there at all.

It is unlawful to drive across a dividing section, barrier, or unpaved strip which separates two roadways at any point other than at an authorized opening or crossover.

Riding inside a house trailer or any other towed trailer while it is being moved on a street or highway is not allowed in Georgia.

Nobody in a trailer is belted to anything, and a trailer that comes loose keeps going on its own.

Riding in a house trailer, or any other vehicular drawn trailer, is not allowed while it is being moved upon a street or highway.

Trailers wider than 8 feet 6 inches are not allowed on Georgia highways.

A trailer wider than the lane it is in takes part of the next lane with it on every curve.

Trailers wider than 8 feet, 6 inches are not permitted on Georgia's highways.

Georgia makes it unlawful to dump, throw or leave litter on any public or private property in the state, and the driver is the one who has broken the law when litter comes out of a vehicle.

Whoever threw it out of the window, the ticket goes to the person holding the wheel.

Whenever litter is thrown, deposited, or dropped from any motor vehicle, the operator of the vehicle shall have violated the Litter Control Law.

What does Georgia say about coasting in neutral down a hill?

It is prohibited there. In neutral the engine stops helping you hold the car back, and the brakes take the whole hill alone. Georgia Driver's Manual, p.56: “The driver of any motor vehicle, when traveling down a hill, must not coast with the gears or transmission of the vehicle in neutral.”