Do you know your roadsigns

[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
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots

[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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[jan larsen]

In Denmark 'waiting' is standing still in 3 minutes, regardless if you're in or out of the car. If you're loading, or unloading, the car, then there is no time limit. "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

[jan larsen]

David Wulff wrote: 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? We got the exact same signs in Denmark. Are you sure the single line isn't no parking? In denmark the single line means 'No parking', but you may 'wait', which is < 3 minutes. The cross means 'No waiting' which of course implies that you can't 'wait' either. [edit]It really means no stopping, that's confusing!, I wonder if the EU has plans for coordinating the signs.[/edit] "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

[David Wulff]

According to the highway code: Single line - no waiting Cross - no stopping Both imply to me that you can't wait *or* stop.

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