Meeting a vehicle in your lane — Minnesota Permit Test
Meeting a vehicle in your lane on the Minnesota permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
If a vehicle is coming toward you in your lane, move to the right rather than using the left lane.
The other driver is likely to correct back into their own lane, which is where you would have gone.
If a vehicle is traveling toward you in your lane, move to the right. Do not use the left lane to avoid the vehicle.
If the vehicle keeps coming, steer off the road to the right if that is what it takes to avoid a crash.
The ditch is survivable at 55 mph. A head-on collision at a closing speed of 110 mph is not.
If the vehicle continues toward you, steer off the road to the right if necessary to avoid a crash.
Sounding your horn and flashing your headlights may wake a sleepy or distracted driver.
Something has to reach a driver who is not looking, and both of those might.
Sounding your horn and flashing your headlights may help a sleepy or distracted driver become alert.
If a driver passing you cannot complete the pass and is nearly back in position, slow down and let them in.
The pass is happening whether you like it or not, and slowing makes room for it to end.
If the passing vehicle is nearly in position to move back into the right lane, slow down and allow the driver to complete the pass as quickly as possible.
If the passing vehicle has to drop back, speed up so there is room for it to move in behind you.
The gap behind you is the only place left for them to go.
If the passing vehicle must drop back, speed up to make sure there is adequate room for the vehicle to move into the lane behind you.
On the test
Which way do you move when a vehicle comes at you in your lane?
To the right. The other driver is likely to correct back into their own lane, which is where you would have gone. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.83: “If a vehicle is traveling toward you in your lane, move to the right. Do not use the left lane to avoid the vehicle.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Minnesota Driver’s Manual, published by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-22.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pdf (Minnesota Driver’s Manual, May 2025, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, MN entry -- the folio offset of 3 and its basis, the folio marker, the extraction-flag score and the welded compounds it costs, and the record of where the exam shape comes from