Other places you must stop — Minnesota Permit Test
Other places you must stop on the Minnesota permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
You must stop before entering a road from an alley, private driveway, parking lot or parking ramp.
You are joining a road where nobody is expecting a car, and the sidewalk comes first.
Before entering a road from an alley, private driveway, parking lot or parking ramp. Always stop before crossing a sidewalk or crosswalk.
You must stop at any intersection or crosswalk, marked or unmarked, where a pedestrian or bicyclist is crossing.
An unmarked crosswalk is still a crosswalk, and the person crossing has the same right in it.
At any intersection or crosswalk, marked or unmarked, where a pedestrian or bicyclist is crossing the road.
Stay stopped for a crossing pedestrian until they have passed your lane.
A pedestrian who has cleared your bumper has not cleared the lane, and moving off crowds them.
Stay stopped until they have passed your lane.
Treat a flashing red traffic light as you would a stop sign.
The flash means the signal has stopped taking turns, so the drivers do it themselves.
At a flashing red traffic light. Treat it as you would a stop sign.
You must stop at a freeway ramp meter when the light is red.
The meter spaces cars out so the freeway can absorb them one at a time.
At a freeway ramp meter when the light is red.
You must stop at a bridge that has been raised to open a path for boats.
The road ends in the air, and the barrier is the only thing between a car and the water.
At a bridge that has been raised to open a path for boats.
On the test
What must you do before driving out of a parking ramp onto a road?
Come to a complete stop. You are joining a road where nobody is expecting a car, and the sidewalk comes first. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.41: “Before entering a road from an alley, private driveway, parking lot or parking ramp. Always stop before crossing a sidewalk or crosswalk.”
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 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