Stop and yield signs — Georgia Permit Test

A stop sign means a full stop at the marked stop line, and you stay there until the way is clear.

A rolling stop spends the one second you had to look for whatever is coming.

An Octagon (eight-sided shape) always means stop. When you come to it, you must make a complete stop at a marked stop line.

Where this sign has no stop line painted with it, stop before the crosswalk on your side of the intersection; where there is no crosswalk either, stop where you can best see oncoming traffic.

The point of stopping is the look, so the place to stop is the place you can see from.

If there is no stop line, stop before the crosswalk on your side of the intersection. If there is no crosswalk, stop at a point from which you can best see oncoming traffic.

A yield sign means slow to a speed that suits the conditions, and stop if stopping is what it takes to let others through.

You cannot judge a gap in traffic at full speed, so the sign asks you to slow until you can.

Triangle signs mean yield. You must slow down to a speed that is reasonable for existing conditions and stop if necessary.

At a yield sign you let vehicles already in the intersection go first, along with any closing in on the road you are joining.

The other driver is not slowing for you, and they cannot see that you meant to go first.

After slowing or stopping, you must yield the right-of-way to other vehicles in the intersection or approaching closely on another roadway or auxiliary road leading into a major highway.

What must you do when you reach this sign?

Come to a full stop at the stop line. A rolling stop spends the one second you had to look for whatever is coming. Georgia Driver's Manual, p.70: “An Octagon (eight-sided shape) always means stop. When you come to it, you must make a complete stop at a marked stop line.”