Yielding in special cases — Minnesota Permit Test

Driving in the right lane, you must yield to transit and metro mobility buses merging from a bus stop or shoulder.

A bus pulling out has no chance of forcing a gap, so the law gives it one.

When driving in the right lane, you must yield to transit and metro mobility buses merging from a bus stop or shoulder.

You must also yield to a school bus entering the right lane from a shoulder, right-turn lane or other place it stopped.

It is the same rule as a transit bus, and the bus is full of the children the rest of Chapter 4 is about.

This includes yielding to any school bus trying to enter the lane from a shoulder, a right-turn lane, or other location where the school bus has stopped to load or unload passengers.

A bus moving back into the right-hand lane must use its left turn signal to show what it is doing.

The yield is not unconditional. The signal is what claims it.

The school bus must use the left turn signal to indicate intent to move into the right-hand lane.

You must yield to an entire funeral procession identified by headlights or hazard warning lights.

Breaking into the line separates people who are following a hearse to a place they have never been.

When a funeral procession identifies itself with headlights or hazard warning lights, you must yield to the entire procession.

You must yield to pedestrians crossing at intersections and crosswalks, whether they are marked or unmarked.

The right to cross does not come from the paint. It comes from being at an intersection on foot.

You must yield to pedestrians crossing at intersections and crosswalks, whether marked or unmarked.

Who must you yield to when driving in the right lane?

A transit bus merging from a bus stop. A bus pulling out has no chance of forcing a gap, so the law gives it one. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.43: “When driving in the right lane, you must yield to transit and metro mobility buses merging from a bus stop or shoulder.”