Right of way — Georgia Permit Test

Right of way on the Georgia permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

At an intersection with no signs and no signals, where two vehicles arrive together, the driver on the left yields to the driver on the right.

With nothing painted or posted, the two drivers need one rule they both already know.

At intersections where there are no stop signs, yield signs or other traffic signals, if two vehicles come to the intersection at the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left must yield to the driver of the vehicle on the right

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.44

At a four-way stop every driver yields to people on foot first, and then the vehicles go in the order they arrived; where two arrive together, you yield to the one on your right.

First to arrive is the only order four stopped drivers can agree on without talking.

At a four-way intersection where all drivers are faced with stop signs, all drivers must yield to pedestrians; otherwise the vehicles should proceed through the intersection in a "first to arrive, first to proceed order."

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.44

Turning left at an intersection, or into an alley or a driveway, you yield to all the traffic coming the other way.

A left turn crosses a whole lane of oncoming traffic, and that traffic has nowhere to swerve to.

When making a left turn at an intersection, or into an alley or driveway, yield the right-of-way to all traffic coming from the opposite direction

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.44

A green light is not a reason to enter an intersection: Georgia says to wait until the intersection is clear of traffic before you go in.

A car stuck across the intersection when your light changed is still there when you arrive.

At intersections with traffic control lights, wait until the intersection is clear of traffic or approaching traffic before entering. Do not proceed "just because" you have the green light

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.44

Coming out of an alley, a private road or a driveway, you stop and yield to everybody already on the roadway or the sidewalk you are crossing.

The people already there have no reason to expect anything to come out of a driveway at them.

If you are about to enter or cross a highway from an alley, private road or highway, you must stop and yield the right-of-way to all other pedestrians and vehicles already traveling on the roadway or sidewalk you are entering or crossing

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.45

Unless a sign says otherwise, a right turn on a red light is allowed in Georgia after a complete stop, once you have yielded to all traffic and people on foot and decided the turn is safe.

The stop is what turns a red light into a chance to look, and the looking is the whole point.

Unless a sign posted at that intersection prohibits doing so, it is permissible to make a "right turn on red" at an intersection controlled by a traffic control light.

Georgia Driver's Manual, p.45

On the test

Two cars reach an unmarked intersection at the same moment. Who yields?

The driver on the left yields. With nothing painted or posted, the two drivers need one rule they both already know. Georgia Driver's Manual, p.44: “At intersections where there are no stop signs, yield signs or other traffic signals, if two vehicles come to the intersection at the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left must yield to the driver of the vehicle on the right”

How this works

Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.

You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.

Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.

What it costs

  • One payment, once — not a subscription. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel, for an exam you sit one time.
  • Free to start: a 10-question test and the first section of cards. No sign-up and no account.
  • Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
  • Every level up to Prepared — 3 tests passed in a row.
  • Do the work, fail the real exam, and we refund you.

All Georgia permit topics

Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Georgia Driver's Manual, published by the Georgia Department of Driver Services, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-18.