Class #3: Basic Rules

Hand Signs (when signals don’t work)
  • Straight = left
  • Waving = right
  • Down = left
Signs

Regulatory signs

  • The LAW (nonnegotiable)

If broken you will get written up/fined

They are starting to set up AI traffic cameras to catch people

  • Color: red/white or black/white
  • Shape: triangle, octagon, rectangle, cross-buck
  • Same in every state and territory

Warning

  • Color: yellow/neon yellow or black writing or symbols

Think of a bumble bee

  • Shape: pennon, pentagon, diamond, circle, square
  • Same in every state and territory

Guide

  • Completely optional
  • Color: green, blue, brown, red, reflective writing
  • Shape: square, rectangle, shield, trapezoid
  • Same in every state and territory

Construction Zone/Work Zone

  • Shape: diamond, square, rectangle
  • Color: orange background or writing

Think Halloween

  • Slow down to 20 and STAY THERE
  • There does not have to be a sign
  • Same in every state and territory

Exit Sign = green

Service sign = blue

Brown = fun things (beach)

School Zone

  • 20 mph
  • Shape: house

Stop Sign

  • Red
  • Stop at white line or at the post
  • Go to 0 (go in easy)
  • Look left → right → left

Yield

  • Do NOT stop unless there is an oncoming something

Go in easy

%

  • How steep the slope is
  • Tap the brakes
Situations

Instructor tells you to go right when there is a stop sign on left and a yield sign on right

  • You yield

Going down a hill

  • Tap the brake

No speed limit sign

  • Go 30 mph until you see one

HOV

  • Carpool lane

2 lane road

  • Hangout in the right lane

3 lane road

  • Hangout in the middle

Ice

  • Bridges freeze before the road