Manuals collected this week at two busy DMV offices in Northern Virginia included the 3-by-11-inch correction slips, although officials acknowledge that they're easy to overlook and can fall out.

The DMV analyzes questions to try and dump too-difficult ones, those that have been used too often and any that should be rewritten, a representative says.

“The Division of Motor Vehicles simply should not be in the position of propagating misleading and inappropriate information to new drivers,” R.I. ACLU’s Steven Brown wrote.

Portions of a Rhode Island state driver’s manual — including a section advising drivers not to assume that a traffic stop by police was based on their gender or race — are being eliminated fo… ...

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