Driving law, compared across all 50 states and DC
One rule at a time, every state’s own answer side by side: each from that state’s driver manual or, where the manual is silent, its vehicle code, with the page or the section it is in, and the states that say nothing named.
Any driving-law question can be asked across all 50 states and DC, not only the rules compared here: each state’s answer comes from its own manual or code, cited.
Every comparison as CSV, beside its page below. How the answers are made
Driving-law facts, across the states: questions a driver’s-ed class asks, answered across the states and checked against every law cited.
- Fire hydrant parking distance (CSV)
- Crosswalk parking distance (CSV)
- Parking near an intersection (CSV)
- Stop sign and signal parking distance (CSV)
- Railroad crossing parking distance (CSV)
- Fire station driveway parking distance (CSV)
- How close to the curb to park (CSV)
- Stopping for a school bus (CSV)
- Move over law for emergency vehicles (CSV)
- Following distance behind a fire truck (CSV)
- When headlights are required (CSV)
- When to dim your high beams (CSV)
- Seat belt law (CSV)
- Child car seat law (CSV)
- Blood alcohol limit for adults (CSV)
- Blood alcohol limit under 21 (CSV)
- Refusing a breath or blood test (CSV)
- Handheld phone law (CSV)
- Texting while driving law (CSV)
- How far ahead to signal a turn (CSV)
- Right turn on red (CSV)
- Left turn on red onto a one-way street (CSV)
- Where U-turns are not allowed (CSV)
- Residential speed limit when unposted (CSV)
- Rural highway speed limit when unposted (CSV)
- School zone speed limit (CSV)
- Passing on the right (CSV)
- Headphones while driving (CSV)
- Open container law (CSV)
- Learner's permit age (CSV)
- How long to hold a learner's permit (CSV)
- Supervising driver for a learner's permit (CSV)
- Provisional license curfew (CSV)
- Provisional license passenger limit (CSV)
- Penalty for littering from a vehicle (CSV)
- Fine for a first DUI conviction (CSV)
- Jail for a first DUI conviction (CSV)
- License suspension for a first DUI (CSV)
- Ignition interlock after a DUI (CSV)
- High blood alcohol DUI penalties (CSV)
- How long a prior DUI counts (CSV)
- Points that lead to a license suspension (CSV)
- Fine for texting while driving (CSV)
- Motorcycle helmet law (CSV)
- Window tint limit (CSV)
- Passing distance for a bicycle (CSV)
- Slower traffic keep right (CSV)
- Minimum car insurance liability limits (CSV)
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The ask box answers a question like these for every state at once when Nationwide is ticked: each state’s figure from its own manual or code, cited, and the states that say nothing named.