Pennsylvania Driver's Handbook, Section 3: Learning to Drive

Vehicle checks, distraction, fatigue, alcohol and drugs, space and speed management, turns, passing, intersections, parking, special situations and emergencies.

Key rules

1. Fatigue impairs like alcohol: 24 hours awake equals a .10 BAC. If you are tired, stop driving. p. 33
2. Keep a 4-second following distance on dry pavement and look 12 to 15 seconds ahead. p. 35
3. The maximum limit is 70 mph; you can be ticketed for driving too fast for conditions even within the limit. p. 39
4. Headlights from sunset to sunrise, in bad weather and whenever wipers are on; low beams within 500 feet of oncoming and 300 feet behind. p. 40
5. Signal at least 100 feet before turning below 35 mph and 300 feet at 35 mph or more. p. 44
6. No passing within 100 feet of intersections, railroad crossings, bridges or tunnels, or on curves and hill crests. p. 47
7. Yield to pedestrians, to oncoming traffic when turning left, to the right at the same time, and to vehicles already in a roundabout. p. 48
8. No parking within 15 feet of a hydrant, 20 feet of a crosswalk, 30 feet of a stop sign or 50 feet of a railroad crossing; park within 12 inches of the curb. p. 53
9. Stop 10 feet from a school bus with red lights and stop arm, from either direction, except across a divided highway. p. 58
10. Move Over: change to a non-adjacent lane at emergency scenes and disabled vehicles, or slow 20 mph below the limit. p. 59
11. In a skid steer the way the rear is sliding and do not brake; with ABS keep firm pressure, without ABS pump the brakes. p. 61
12. Never drive into floodwater: six inches can make you lose control and two feet carries away most vehicles. p. 62