Oncoming vehicle in your lane — Hawaii Permit Test
Oncoming vehicle in your lane on the Hawaii permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
If an oncoming vehicle is in your lane, flash your lights and sound the horn.
The other driver may be asleep or distracted, and lights and horn may be what wakes him up.
Flash your lights and honk the horn.
If an oncoming vehicle is in your lane, quickly slow down and steer to the right out of the lane into any clear area; do not enter the oncoming lane, and drive off the road if you must.
If you swerve left and the other driver wakes up and swerves back, you meet head-on in his lane.
Quickly slow your vehicle and steer to the right out of the lane into any available clear area.
On the test
What should you do first to warn an oncoming car that is in your lane?
Flash your lights and honk. The other driver may be asleep or distracted, and lights and horn may be what wakes him up. State of Hawaii Driver’s Manual, p.82: “Flash your lights and honk the horn.”
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.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against State of Hawaii Driver’s Manual, published by the Hawaii Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-05.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/HI.pdf (State of Hawaii Driver’s Manual, 2023, Hawaii Department of Transportation, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/HI.pages.txt (scripts/hi-text.py: PyMuPDF with the clip honored, sorted, hyphens rejoined; the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/HI-exam.html (County of Maui, Division of Motor Vehicles & Licensing, Class 3 Instructional Permit, https://www.mauicounty.gov/1541/Class-3-Instructional-Permit, read 2026-10-05; states both exam figures; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://hidot.hawaii.gov/highways/library/motor-vehicle-safety-office/ (read 2026-10-05; links the manual)
- https://hidot.hawaii.gov/highways/files/2021/08/19-122-std-format.pdf (Hawaii Administrative Rules chapter 19-122, the DOT’s own copy, read 2026-10-05; §19-122-10(f)’s 80 percent agrees with the county’s figures)