Dealing with emotions — Vermont Permit Test
Dealing with emotions on the Vermont permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Emotions affect safe driving. You may not be able to drive well if you are overly worried, excited, afraid, angry or depressed. Give yourself time to cool off and calm down.
A driver who is arguing in their head is not watching the road, whatever their eyes are pointed at.
Emotions affect safe driving. You may not be able to drive well if you are overly worried, excited, afraid, angry or depressed.
Plan ahead and give yourself extra time for a trip. Leaving a few minutes early makes you less likely to speed, break laws or crash.
Most bad driving is somebody trying to buy back time they never had.
If you have plenty of time, you are less likely to speed or break laws or crash.
On the test
What does Vermont say about driving while upset?
You may not drive well, so take time to calm down. A driver who is arguing in their head is not watching the road, whatever their eyes are pointed at. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.55: “Emotions affect safe driving. You may not be able to drive well if you are overly worried, excited, afraid, angry or depressed.”
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 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, published by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pdf (2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, form VN-007, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pages.txt (pdftotext -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 1, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)