Driver duties to pedestrians — Texas Permit Test
Driver duties to pedestrians on the Texas permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A driver who sees a pedestrian crossing or attempting to cross should slow down, use the horn if necessary, and be ready to stop.
Slowing is the part that makes stopping possible. The horn is the warning, not the answer.
If you see a pedestrian crossing or attempting to cross the street, slow down, use your horn if necessary, and be prepared to stop
A white cane or an assistance animal indicates that a person may be blind, partially blind, or disabled, and a driver must take the precautions necessary to avoid injuring or endangering them.
The person may not be able to see the car at all. The whole duty shifts to the driver.
The white cane indicates the person may be blind, partially blind, or disabled
A driver must bring the vehicle to a full stop where injury or danger to a pedestrian can only be avoided by that action.
Slowing is usually enough and sometimes it is not. Where it is not, the stop is required rather than advised.
The driver shall bring the vehicle to a full stop if injury or danger can only be avoided by that action
A driver should watch for people who are blind at bus stops, intersections, business areas, and near schools for the blind.
These are the places they gather and the places they cross. Knowing where to expect them is the practical version of the rule.
Watch for individuals who are blind at bus stops, intersections, business areas, and near schools for the blind
On the test
What should a Texas driver do on seeing a pedestrian attempting to cross?
Slow down and be ready to stop. Slowing is the part that makes stopping possible. The horn is the warning, not the answer. Texas Driver Handbook, p.61: “If you see a pedestrian crossing or attempting to cross the street, slow down, use your horn if necessary, and be prepared to stop”
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 Texas Driver Handbook, published by the Texas Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pdf (Texas Driver Handbook, form DL-7, Revised January 2026, Texas Department of Public Safety, retrieved 2026-09-14 from dps.texas.gov)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 6, nonLawPages, the four extraction traps and the extraction flag, each with its measured basis)
- docs/plans/texas-exam-shape.md (the search that established that no official source states the question count, and the two decoys it disposes of)