Oklahoma Class D Knowledge Test Practice
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You follow a motorcycle on a city street that has potholes and loose gravel. How should you set your following distance?
A follows motorcycle B on a city street. Two broken pavement patches with loose gravel lie ahead in their lane; no following distance is numbered.
Correct answer: Keep more space than usual, because the rider may swerve or stop quickly for a hazard
Why
A motorcycle's narrow shape makes its distance and speed hard to judge, and a rider often changes position or slows to avoid potholes, gravel and wind blasts. The manual says to allow at least a three-second following distance behind a motorcycle, and to increase your gap when you follow a motorcycle, a large vehicle, or drive on slick roads, at night or in bad weather. Extra space gives you time to react and gives the rider room to handle an emergency.
Verified against Oklahoma Driver Manual · Sharing the road with motorcycles · p. 42, 53
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