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Final MCOLES Exam Questions With
Verified Answers
What are the elements of a traffic violation? - answer✔✔- Driver who commits the violation
- Vehicle involved
- When a violation has occurred
What are the non-elements of a traffic violation? - answer✔✔- Intent (civil infractions)
- Ignorance
- Intoxication
- Mistake
- Contributory negligence
- Knowledge
- Other
What to determine the proper type of license? - answer✔✔- Operator
- Chauffeur
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- Moped
What to determine has the proper endorsement? - answer✔✔- Cycle
- Commercial (CDL or classified endorsements)
What to determine the status of auto insurance by verifying what? - answer✔✔- Insurance has
not expired
- Description of the vehicle matches the vehicle
- VIN on the insurance certificate matches the vehicles VIN, etc
What is an "Ambulance"? - answer✔✔- Specifically designed or constructed and equipped and
its intended to be used for is maintained or operated for transportation of persons who are sick,
injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless
What is an "Authorized Emergency Vehicle"? - answer✔✔- Vehicles of the fire department,
police vehicles, ambulances, privately owned motor vehicles of volunteer or paid fire fighters
What is an "Axle"? - answer✔✔- Common axis of rotation or more wheels whether power
driven or freely rotating, and whether in 1 or more segments and regardless of the number of
wheels carried thereon
What is a "Bicycle"? - answer✔✔- A device propelled by human power upon which a person
may ride, having either 23 or 3 wheels in a tandem or tricycle arrangement, all of which are over
14 inches in diameter
What is a "Bus"? - answer✔✔- Motor vehicle designed for carrying 16 or more passengers,
including the driver. Does not include school bus
What is a "Chauffeur"? - answer✔✔- Person who is employed for the principal purpose of
operating a motor vehicle with a GVWR of 10,000 pounds or more
EX.) Limousine driver, taxicab driver
What is an "Civil Infraction"? - answer✔✔- An act or omission prohibited by law which is not a
crime
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What is an "Cross-Walk"? - answer✔✔- Any portion of a highway at an intersection or
elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface
What is an "Freeway"? - answer✔✔- A divided arterial highway for through traffic with full
control of access and with all crossroads separated in grade from pavements for through traffic
What is an "Hazardous Material"? - answer✔✔- Explosives, flammable gas, flammable
compressed gas, nonflammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous
gas, poisonous liquid, irritating material, etiologic material, radioactive material, corrosive
material or liquefied petroleum gas
What is an "Highway or Street"? - answer✔✔- The entire width between the boundary lines of
every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for
purposes of vehicular travel
What is an "Implement of Husbandry"? - answer✔✔- A vehicle or trailer in use for the exclusive
function of serving agricultural, horticultural or livestock operation
What is an "Laned Roadway"? - answer✔✔- Roadway which is divided into 2 or more clearly
marked lanes for vehicular traffic
What is an "License"? - answer✔✔- Any driving privileges, license, temporary instruction
permit, commercial learners permit, or temporary license issued under the laws of this state
pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicle
What is an "Limited Access Highway"? - answer✔✔- Every highway, street, or roadway in
respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of
access to or from the same except at such points only, and in such manner as may be determined
by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street or roadway
What is an "Motorcycle"? - answer✔✔- Every motor vehicle having saddle or seat for the use of
a rider and designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground but excluding
a factor
What is an "Motor Home"? - answer✔✔- Motor vehicle constructed or altered to provide living
quarters, including permanently installed cooking and sleeping facilities and is used for
recreation, camping or other noncommercial use
What is an "Moped"? - answer✔✔- A 2 or 3- wheeled vehicle to which both of the following:
- Is equipped with a motor that does not exceed 100 cubic centimeters piston displacement and
cannot propel the vehicle at a speed greater than 30 miles per hour on a travel surface
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- Its power drive system does not require the operator to shift gears
What is an "Motor vehicle"? - answer✔✔- Every vehicle that is self-propelled, but for purposes
of chapter 4 of this act motor vehicle does not include industrial equipment such as a forklift, a
fronted loader or other construction equipment that is not subject to registration
What is an "Operate"? - answer✔✔- 1 or more of the following:
- Being in actual physical control of a vehicle. This subdivision applies regardless of whether or
not the person is licensed under this act as an operator or chauffeur
- Michigan is an OWI state, you do not to be driving
What is an "Parking"? - answer✔✔- Standing a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon highway,
when not loading or unloading except when making necessary repairs
What is an "Pedestrian"? - answer✔✔- Any person afoot
What is an "Private driveway"? - answer✔✔- Any piece of privately owned and maintained
property which is used for vehicular traffic, but is not open or normally used by the public
What is an "Registration"? - answer✔✔- A registration certificate, plate, adhesive tab, or other
indicator of registration issued under this act for display on a vehicle
What is an "Revocation"? - answer✔✔- That the operators or chauffeurs license and privileges to
operate a motor vehicle on the public highways are terminated and shall not be renewed or
restored until the later of the following:
- Expiration of not less than 1 year after the license was revoked
- Expiration of not less than 5 years after the date of a subsequent revocation occurring within 7
years after the date of prior revocation
What is an "Right-of-way"? - answer✔✔- The privilege of the immediate use of the highway
What is an "Roadway"? - answer✔✔- That portion of a highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel
What is an "Safety Zone"? - answer✔✔- The area or space officially set apart within a roadway
for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected and so marked or indicated by
adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while act apart as a safety zone
