Advance and school signs pictured — Tennessee Permit Test
Advance and school signs pictured on the Tennessee permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
This sign means there is a stop sign just ahead that you cannot yet see; start to slow down here.
A hill or curve can hide the stop sign until you are close. Slowing now keeps you from sliding past it.
This sign indicates that there is a STOP sign just ahead that you cannot yet see.
This sign is placed as you approach a school; it warns you to slow down, drive with caution and watch for children.
Children near a school can run into the street with no warning. Slower speed gives you the time to stop.
It warns you to slow down, drive with caution and watch for children.
This speed sign, posted with a warning sign, gives you the recommended maximum safe speed.
The plate tells you the speed the curve can safely take. Going faster can slide you off the road.
It gives you the recommended maximum safe speed.
This sign warns of a bike crossing.
A bike rider can cross in front of you with little warning. You need time to slow and give them room.
BIKE CROSSING
On the test
What does this sign tell you?
A stop sign is ahead out of view. A hill or curve can hide the stop sign until you are close. Slowing now keeps you from sliding past it. Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.38: “This sign indicates that there is a STOP sign just ahead that you cannot yet see.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, published by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-03.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN.pdf (Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, information current as of July 1, 2022, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN-exam.html (tn.gov/safety/driver-services/classd/teengdl/knowledge-test-online.html as served on 2026-10-03; the only source for both exam figures)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, TN entry -- the folio marker and its basis, the extraction-flag score and its welded compounds, and the record of where the exam shape comes from
- docs/plans/how-to-build-laws.md (the runbook this corpus follows)