Stop sign procedure — Tennessee Permit Test
Stop sign procedure on the Tennessee permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Tennessee Code defines a stop as complete cessation of movement.
A car still creeping forward can still hit someone. Only a full stop counts under the law.
Tennessee Code defines “stop” as “complete cessation of movement.
At stop signs and when turning right on red, come to a complete stop, not a rolling stop, and go only when traffic is clear.
A rolling stop gives you less time to look. The car you miss is the one that hits you.
come to a COMPLETE stop (not a rolling stop) and go only when traffic is clear.
After stopping, pull out only when approaching traffic will not have to slow down or change lanes for you.
If you pull out and make others brake, you have taken a gap that was not there. That is how side crashes happen.
Approaching traffic should not have to slow down or change lanes for your vehicle.
On the test
How does Tennessee Code define a stop?
Complete cessation of movement. A car still creeping forward can still hit someone. Only a full stop counts under the law. Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.49: “Tennessee Code defines “stop” as “complete cessation of movement.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
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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)