Do you know your roadsigns

Colin Angus Mackay

I got a disappointing 8 out of 10 - I'm really disappointed with myself for that. I missed the arm signal question and the red circle with red strike through a blue disk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4371971.stm[^]

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Chris Meech

Since the signs are different here in North America, I not sure whether my 6 of 10 is good or bad. :) But what's the difference between waiting or parking? Your car is stopped in both cases. Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Gently arching his fishing rod back he moves the tip forward in a gentle arch releasing the line.... kersplunk [Doug Goulden] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

suzyb

8 out of 10 also. I missed the arm one and the fireworks car one. Don't remember that being my highway code. Colin Angus Mackay wrote: red circle with red strike through a blue disk I got this one because I recently looked it up after my mother and I had a disagreement on what it meant. SuzyB If I had a better memory I would remember more.

KaRl

Some signs don't exist on the Continent and other don't have exactly the same signification (here there's a difference between this one[^] and this one[^]). So I'm not really disappointed with 6/10, Also here, when another driver makes a hand signal, generally it's the best way to start a fight :-D

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David Crow

Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I got a disappointing 8 out of 10... Paltry. I got a whopping 4. I knew none of them!

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Baconbutty

9/10 - blew it on the hand signal one - convinced myself it was slowing down even though deep down I knew it was turning left :( I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

David Wulff

K(arl) wrote: here there's a difference between this one[^] and this one[^] Technically there is here too - the single line is no stopping and waiting and the cross is no parking / clearway. I really can't see the difference between those instructions though? :confused: K(arl) wrote: when another driver makes a hand signal, generally it's the best way to start a fight :-D :rolleyes:

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David Wulff

10/10! I liked the "danger of cars backfiring" sign. :laugh:

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Eurosid

I got 8 out of 10, and I'm a Yank.

Dallas Matthews

Got a 4 - but I'm Canadian... I was just trying to think which would be logical for each sign, which either means that I'm not that observant, or that the signs are not terribly intuitive. Judging from most scores, I would believe the latter. - Dallas

Gary Thom

10 / 10, pretty pleased as I passed my test 23 years ago ... damn was it that long ago... I need a :beer: or 2.... Gary Rich Cook: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Chris Maunder

Those are the most obtuse road signs I've ever seen. The "No cars with explosives" is particularly weird - usually a "No something or other" has a red cross through it. That one seems to encourage cars with explosives. Come on down! cheers, Chris Maunder

Matt Philmon

Well, I'm a driver in the US... so I guess I shouldn't be upset out of my lackluster 6 of 10. Our signs here almost completely DON'T resemble yours. LOL

wrykyn

I got 4/10 And I was lucky to get that much. I was guessing the whole time. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."

V 0

yep, signs are a bit different. If you ever come to belgium and you should rent a car or something: the blue board with the diagonal red line means no parcing, if there are 2 diagonal red lines (in a cross) it means no parcing and no waiting. If there are numbers in them (typically 1/15 and 16/31) it means that sign only applies from the first to the fifteenth and from the sixteenth to the thirty-first of that month :-). Anyway, everybody should retest once in while. Too few know the rules :sigh:. No hurries, no worries.

Navin

6/10 for me, but then again I'm a Yank. The hand signal one got me - usually when people do that here, it means they want you to pass them. Typically the driver of a slow-moving or broken down vehicle does that. The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Matt Newman

Wow, i managed to pull off a 7 out of 10 and I'm from the US. Matt Newman
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Chris Meech

My wife and daughter just returned from a road trip through the states. The best road sign was in New York state, as they passed by a correctional facility with tall cement walls and barbed wire all around. A road sign cautioned to not pickup hitch hikers. :doh: Apparently they also have a law that requires you to have your headlights on when you operate your wind shield wipers. So if you see a car with intermittently flashing lights, you'll know why. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Gently arching his fishing rod back he moves the tip forward in a gentle arch releasing the line.... kersplunk [Doug Goulden] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

FlyingTinman

I believe "waiting" is stopping without exiting the vehicle. As soon the driver leaves the vehicle it is officially parked. Steve T

Luis Alonso Ramos

I got 7/10, not bad for a Mexican. In Mexico, to signal the other cars you are turning right (we drive on the left of the car, right of the road) is to stick your hand out and over the top of the car and point to the right... so that moving the hand in cricles really was a guess. The coolest one was the one about the explosives. :laugh: -- LuisR

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