An uncontrolled intersection has no signs and no signals, only rules. Two apply at once in the illustrated scene: a driver turning left yields to oncoming traffic going straight, and where two vehicles reach the crossing together, the one on the left yields to the one on the right.
The turning driver in the scenario is bound by both: the oncoming car going straight has priority, and the turn waits until its path is clear. Uncontrolled crossings reward an approach slow enough to apply the rules: at neighborhood speeds, with a look each way, the right of way sorts itself; at speed, nobody has time to yield anything.
The tested mistake is assuming an empty-looking crossing or taking the turn on nerve. The left turn across traffic is the yielding movement everywhere, signals or not, and the exam phrases it through exactly this diagram.
This situation appears in 1 questions across 1 of our state banks, on Driver License practice tests. Start with your state:
At an unsigned intersection, a driver wants to turn left across an oncoming vehicle going straight. Who must yield?
Why: A driver turning left must yield to oncoming vehicles traveling straight ahead, and every driver must take action needed to avoid a crash even when another driver should yield. Therefore, the supported response is "The left-turning driver".
Every practice test explains its answers this way. Pick your state and take one free; no sign-up.
Choose your stateDrivers yield to vehicles already in the intersection, to traffic arriving from the right on simultaneous arrivals, and always to oncoming traffic when turning left.
The turn crosses the oncoming lane; the straight-through driver never leaves theirs. The movement that crosses another's path is the one that waits, at every kind of intersection.
Slow enough to see both cross streets and stop if the right of way is not yours. Many are in residential areas where the safe speed is well below the posted one.
Very, in residential grids and rural areas. Their questions appear on every state's exam because the rules are the only control present.
As a who-goes-first diagram: a left-turner facing an oncoming through car. The through car goes; the turn follows. Our banks draw it exactly as the manuals do.