Fog driving — Nebraska Permit Test
Fog driving on the Nebraska permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Traveling on a road with posted speeds of 40 MPH or more is not recommended when visibility is less than 1/4 of a mile.
In thick fog a fast road gives no time to stop for the car that appears suddenly out of the gray.
Travel on roadway with posted speeds of 40 MPH or more is not recommended when visibility is less than 1/4 of a mile.
In fog, use low beam headlights, reduce speed, and proceed with extreme caution.
High beams bounce off fog straight back into your eyes, and you see less than with low beams.
Reduce speed, and proceed with extreme caution.
On the test
Travel on fast roads is not recommended when fog cuts visibility to less than what distance?
1/4 of a mile. In thick fog a fast road gives no time to stop for the car that appears suddenly out of the gray. Nebraska Driver’s Manual, p.62: “Travel on roadway with posted speeds of 40 MPH or more is not recommended when visibility is less than 1/4 of a mile.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Nebraska Driver’s Manual, published by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE.pdf (Nebraska Driver’s Manual, Class O Drivers Manual-English 1-2025, Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE.pages.txt (plain pdftotext through scripts/ne-text.py, the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE-exam.txt (Nebraska DMV, Driver Licensing Examiner manual, https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dls/DLE_ENTIRE_MANUAL_11222023.pdf, read 2026-10-04; states both exam figures in Section 3; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://dmv.nebraska.gov/manuals (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)