That is scary and we always tell people to study the signs online before renting a car in Germany. And then practicing rechts vor links a whole lot with us driving them around.
@@jorg4443 That's only for the full conversion ("Umschreibung") as a permanent resident, as I understand it: Even if your state does not qualify (Illinois does, for what it's worth) you can still drive for up to 6 months in Germany on your US license.
But of course #RUclips censored it because it had a perfectly safe and fine link. #RUclips and #google are starting to piss me off a lot lately, they are starting to get a bit pathetic. No more engagement form me folks, #RUclips won't allow me. I'll spend my time in another way.
! Long text warning ! German Driving Instructor here to clear up some things about the scoring. There is a catalogue of well over 700 questions in the meantime, and an algorythm will pick out 30 for your exam. Those will be 20 "Base Knowlegde" questions (General Traffic Rules, Signs, Laws), and 10 "specific" questions for the type of vehicle you are learning (e.g. car or bike technical questions - for commerical trucks and buses there are 20 Specific Questions). Obviously the Algorythm will attempt to make the test fair as in everybody gets the same amout of questions about a certain topic, but it'll be different questions everytime. Each question has a point value, easy ones will have 2, mid-tier has 3 or 4 very important ones will have a 5 point value. These points get added up when you answer them wrong (Fehlerpunkte, engl. "Error Score"). In order to pass, you will then need to answer all 30 questions and have an error score of at most 10, but you can have at most one 5-pointer wrong. Two 5-Point Questions wrong -> Fail. One or Zero 5-Point Questions wrong but still more than 10 Error Points -> Fail (e.g. 5+3+3) One or Zero 5-Point Questions wrong and an error score from 0 to 10 -> You passed! So if you only fail the relatively easy and not-so important 2-Pointers, you could get away with up to 5 wrong answers. If you fail important questions, you might even fail at your second error. But keep in mind, the real test is really only 30 Questions, not 127. What you are doing there looks to me like some sort of preperation for the test, to get to know the Questions. Also, the Questions in the real test are multiple choice with 3 different answer options, and one, two or even all three options can be correct. You seem to have 4 options with only one beeing correct which isn't an accurate representation.
Thank you so much! I couldn't remember that from my own test. My test was a few decades ago (damn I can really say this now... I'm getting OLD ^^) and I think there were only 8 possible failure points back then, but I guess we had fewer than 700 questions to learn, so maybe they raised the errror tolerance or the point values of the questions.
Its similar in Croatia only that incorrectly answering the 5 pointers, which are always photos of a traffic situtation on a junction and you have to answer what the correct flow of traffic based on rules,signs and traffic lights is.
@@lhplSeeing that we, now, have European driver's licences, I'd have assumed that the tests have to be simple at least, if not harmonized, even, anyway...
I like how he's starting to pick up on patterns of sign designs. It really shows how methodical/logical/modular the system actually is for the majority of possible signs.
Yeah, that means that he's a smart guy, that's fast in picking up patterns. I know many German who got that information on a silver platter and still got it wrong :D
Would be cool if you do another test that reflects more the real exam questions. This one is all about symbols and signs. At most 5% of the real exam is about that. In the real exam, you are often asked about right of way rules and how you should behave in certain situations.
Real exam can show like a situation in first person view out of a car with a bunch of signs and then it asks, with multiple choice on how to behave and/or what to look out for specifically in this situation
Yes please! But this one is fun as well. „What does this sign mean?“ 🤭 He should probably finish with this one, before moving on to complex traffic situations. He won’t be able to interpret those if he doesn’t know the meaning of the signs. Sidenote: Blue does often but not always mean mandatory. Signs on the Autobahn are blue. And Parking signs as well 🅿️ Maybe think of blue as Do This/Allowed and red as Don’t Do This/ Not Allowed Edit: Red also means Danger or Warning
Yeah well, i put up a link to a free exam in English but youtube censored it. I'm fed up with that pathetic behaviour so I'm out of here. No more comments and likes on youtube, I'll watch it ad free in another way. Byeeeeeee! lol
Jaywalking ist actually legal in Germany. What Germans often get upset about is, when you cross at a red pedestians traffic light. We have No concept of generally not being allowed to cross the street when there is no specific indication for that. For a Long Time I thought jaywalking meant crossing at a red traffic light AS a pedestian
12:15 Preheating is required for Diesel engines. They don't start when cold. On the other hand, with modern Diesel engines, preheating only takes about one or two seconds, so you barely notice it.
yeah i even wonder, as many of the old american pickups, like gmc, chevy and so on, are diesel engines.. so i guess, that preheat sign would be on those cars too..
I had recently a problem with my Skoda (old model) with that coil sign blinking which I knew was preheating. The problem was that blinnking meant something else and after one week I noticed my stop lights were not working (pedal switch problem). Luckly I drove only few shopping errands during the time in a small vilage and noticed broken lights when reverse parking in my garage during the night. Fixed the next day but I was/am scared when realising the danger I was in and for other drivers also. I do not know if was my stupidity or car design stupidy (mostly a combination of both with accent on first).
@@apclaudiuMe wondering why everyone behind me pulls the high beam... turns out BOTH of my rear lights simultaneously decided to go brrr. Whacked one until it burnt again, drove home, fixed thedamn things and lost a screw on the way... Murphy's at its best.
Fun fact: a German DMV office once forced a German guy flying over from Australia (not Austria) to fetch his new driver's license. So, no email ain't working.
Only blue *circles* mean mandatory, blue *squares* (like with pedestrian crossings or "oncoming drivers have to give way" or "begin of a tunnel" or "dead end") are informational signs
I wouldn't call them "informational"; they do establish a rule. It's just not a "you must (not)" type of rule. For example, the "P" sign allows you to park (i.e. it establishes the rule "parking allowed here"), but it doesn't force you to park. And the one shown in the video overrules the normal rules for narrow roads, allowing you to proceed.
@@HenryLoenwind that's not really how traffic rules work in Germany. If there are no signs, you are allowed to, for example, park everywhere (where it's not prohibited by a general rule); if you wouldn't be allowed, there would be a sign. So rules aren't set positive but always negative, indicating that something is prohibited. In this case this sign informs us that the oncoming driver has a sign to give way to oncoming traffic. Same with the P sign; it just informs you that parking is allowed here. It would also be allowed without it. If it weren't, there would be a sign indicating that. But I think P signs are mostly used to inform about bigger parking spaces. I have never seen them in a normal parking spot next to the road. Hopefully I phrased it kind of understandably; sorry if not. ;D
That reminds of those videos about "CRAZY DIESEL COLD STARTS" where they just keep turning their engine over and over until the old girl laboriously sputters to life. Why. Just turn the keys a few times and get your cylinders warm and it'll start right up, even in Antarctica.
Ryan! 16:22 Critical things are always red! - Window defrost cant be red. red -> critical (failure), yellow -> warning, blue -> most of the time just high beams, green -> systems working ok, like cruise control The lines are coolant, water...
@@Salzui You mean in america or germany. In america I found this on the Ford D150, which I think is very popular in the US. i.ytimg.com/vi/-51t4WZfqkY/maxresdefault.jpg And here in germany every car I had had it. BTW defroster doesn't neccesarily mean hot wires in the window. For the front window it is hot air from the A/C blowing at the window at full power
The sign for equestrians prohibitet at 2:55 can often be seen on hiking trails. In germany nearly all paths in forests (even private forests) are free for all and to prevent accidents, not all of them are allowed for equestrians. And for the shape and color of signs in general: - blue and round: something is mandatory - round sign with red border: something is prohibited - triangle pointing up and red border: warning for something
@@Salzui or just information (like the pedestrian crossing). "Additional info" are white squares with black writing/symbols and usually require the other sign to make sense
I just had to take the test myself (I am Czech and wanted to try the German one, altho they are almost the same) I had 2 wrong where one of them was based on German word for emissions and I didn't have a clue. This just shows how the image system is superior to the US one. I can understand German signage without the knowlage of the language and I can easily pass the driving test there as the rules are basically the same. (also it took me about 15 minutes to do all questions, but I didn't have to entertain my audience)
About the “end of overtaking prohibition”-sign (5:00): the “overtaking prohibition sign” (Überholverbotsschild) would be a red circle with one black and one red car. This greyed out version with the lines through it lifts the ban. The design you’re referring to is likely related to the same sign we see here but without the cars in it. That sign is used to lift any speed limits previously stated on any sign. If you’re on the Autobahn, this means there’s no speed limit at all anymore. That would make sense for a fast thrower :)
@5:45 general misconception, the grey stripes doent mean no speed limit, it means end of a certain restriction (here overtaking with the 2 car icons) - if there are multiple restictions (for example speed, overtaking, parking, honking) the blank gray stripes means all of this restrictions are gone - only at the autobahn without general speed limit it means you can drive faster
There's a LOT of jay walking in Germany. Many Americans get it wrong, thinking Germans don't do this. It is not prohibited at all and many people do it. Germans are not at all as law-obedient as you believe. Speeding is a daily basis thing here, for example. It's VERY frequent.
Question 5: Yes, a white round sign with diagonal lines can have something to do with going fast. Those signs are generally used to tell the driver that prohibitions end here, which have been previously announced by one of the various signs that have a red circle with something in it. Such prohibition signs include e.g. the prohibition of overtaking (pictrogram of two vehicles beside each other in a red circle) but also speed limits (the number of the max speed in km/h inside a red circle) or the prohibition for certain vehicles to use that road (like the rare equestrians prohibited sign from the question before). If there is no pictogram on the white sign, just the diagonal lines, it means that EVERY such prohibition that may have been previously announced ends here. If the white sign has a pictogram in it, it means only the prohibition with the same pictogram in it (in this case the prohibition to overtake cars) ends here, while e.g. a speed limit that has been previously announced remains unchanged.
I just don't get, why he doesn't record all parts of it right away and, instead, risks to closing the tab again. That would also give him the opportunity to have something in the drawer for days on which he might be sick or unavailable. But well...
10:30 Regarding the "polluted fluids": We do have signs for that as well, but generally, if a sign is regarding fluids, you will see wavy lines. And if it has to do with fluids on a truck the truck will have a oval/round shape on top, to represent a tank, instead of a box for solid goods.
It also becomes much more logical when you know that dangerous goods transports are marked with a rectangular orange plate on the truck (containing a number that identifies the substance for e.g. firefighters).
I liked the defrost window one. Sure those lines reminded of the REAR window, but in the question it was about the FRONT window. You said if it was about the engine, the symbol would show an engine, but you didn't realize that the symbol didn't show a window either... anyway, it was fun! Thing to remember: not all blue signs are mandatory :)
You might want to know that there is (almost) no jaywalking in germany. Crossing a road is generally allowed for pedestrians, within some limitations. So the "Warning for Pedestrians" makes sense if there is a spot where crossings happen frequently. And at some point you will notice that there blue signs that are circles and squares, and that those might mean different things 😉 And I don't know why light symbols are facing the way they do, but they match directions when you are facing the driver door of a car at least. Left side forward, right side backward.
White circle sign with 5 black diagonal stripes means a previous prohibition got canceled (the red circle signs). If there is no symbol or speed limit in the sign and it's just the white circle with the 5 black diagonal stripes, it means all prohibitions are cancled, including the speed limit - which means you can drive as fast as you want, that's why the designed his disc like that.
I hope that this kind of online thing does not really replace a written exam. Otherwise I would expect a time limit of, let's say 60 minutes for 120 questions. While driving, you should regognize a sign within less than 2 seconds, and not guessing about its meaning for 2 minutes while driving 30 mph. And the multiple choice with just ONE correct answer per question is far, far more easy than my test some (many) years ago. 17:35 The sign "zebra crossing" had (in my exam) the following correct answers to be marked: "You have to stop if pedestrians apparently intend to cross the road", PLUS: "You are not allowed to park withing 15 meters in front of the Zebra" (could be also 5 meters, but I anyways don't even dare to park in front of Zebras), AND "It is not allowed to overtake anyone". If you failed to mark just one of the correct answers, the whole question was qualified as failure. And because this type of question was considered to be significant for driving safety, a failure would have given you 3 or 4 negative failure points - out of maximum 6 (!) - for the whole test.
Red circle: Indicates prohibition, such as speed limits. Blue circle: Represents mandatory actions, like minimum speed requirements. Right-side-up triangle: Indicates warning signs. End of restriction: Black and white version of the sign with black lines crossing, indicating the end of prohibitions, such as speed limits or overtaking restrictions (if it's only the white circle with a black line, it signifies the end of any prohibition). In general, there are no trick answers or responses that do not correspond to a question. If there is a possible answer for a sign indicating a narrowing road, there is indeed a corresponding sign for it. It's important to mention that there are questions with additional sub-questions. You can only earn points if you correctly answer the main question. For example, you might receive a photo of an intersection, and the main question could be, "What does your sign mean?" You earn 1 point for that. If you answer correctly, you might receive a second question about the same picture, like "Which car goes first?" which could be worth 2 points. If you get the main question wrong, you lose 3 points without even answering the additional question. Any information could not be correct for Germany since I am from Austria, but in general it should be the same.
10:50 Vehicles with polluted fluids prohibited exists, but it looks different. It shows a truck for fluids. These trucks have a cylindrical trailer. That sign is used at places where an aquifer is used for drinking water.
6:00 a "greyed out" version of a traffic sign with the bars crossing over ends that sign. So in this case, it ends the overtaking prohibition. And the sign the disc references was the end of a speed limit, which has the original speed limit sign under the bars, thus a number and not two cars. 10:00 vehicles carrying dangerous goods have an orange warning plate specifying the material transported ... this is what the orange colour on the sign references to. and: polluted or explosive goods actually are dangerous goods :) 12:00 Diesel engines need to preheat before starting, and show this icon while "not starting". 13:30 it's blue, but it's not round, so it's not a "mandatory" sign.
5:50 you think it has something to do with going fast because that is also how you have the speed limit. It's the same sign, but instead of the cars it's a speed limit number, otherwise colors and lines are the same 11:00 the other 2 options were too specific to have a sign and the dangerous goods would cover both options 14:00 Mandatory isn't determined by the color blue, it's a blue circle (so both color and shape of sign), any other blue does not mean mandatory 19:30 mostly because it's angled straight and front lights must all be angled downward so front fog lights will also indicate the beam as angled unless high beams
The preheating icon is used in diesel cars, I believe they are called Glow plugs in english. They warm up the combustion chamber for easier diesel startup in cold tempearture.
yep it's due to diesel engines not using spark plugs for combustion, but instead rely on high pressure -and this high pressure can be difficult to build in a cold engine where material may need some preheat to expand to working spec and the fluids etc heat up for viscosity to allow for easier movement of crankshaft and pistons etc. You can sometimes get away with rolling the car down a hill so gravity initiates the movement for you in case preheat doesn't function properly to enable the starter to do its job on its own.
Starting the engine ahead of time is actually illegal in germany. The combustion chambers of diesel engines are preheated when you turn on the ignition. Otherwise they would not start in cold conditions. That takes only around a second.
About your dashboard: yellow means warning, red means critical - and the preheating is for a Diesel to help with the self-ignition when the engine is cold.
@Ryan Wass: About rear fog lights shining to the right. This is not a traffic sign but a signal for the driver inside the car. Usually, if you draw a car from the side, then most people are used to "read" the picture from left to right, this means they expect the front of the car to be on the left and the back on the right. Since the rear lights of the car are then supposed to shine away from the car, they have to shine to the right.
It's so funny to watch your videos and I can improve my English because it's about a topic I know about... Thank you for your contributions and kind regards from Stuttgart (Germany)
Always remember germans tend to get such things quite logical. For example the Sign with the "truck dangerous goods prohibited": The cargo was orange, so it has to do with the cargo - you got that exactly right. Now the orange part of the cargo has neither an explosive symbol, or a skull, etc. A skull on orange is poison, a "bang" is explosives, so the orange makes it a "danger" sign. No symbol means all kinds of dangerous cargo. I had my problems with that sign too, but logic helped me out completely.
Yes, it just mimicks the orange sign that needs to be in the back of the truck in case of carrying dangerous cargo. The numbers on the sign will specify, what kind of cargo it is and what the potential main danger with it is. The symbols, you are talking about, will be next to the orange sign, like the skull, the exploding bomb, and the lake with a dead fish and a dead tree, if the cargo is a poisonous liquid. Thus, the orange sign as shown in the traffic sign must be indicating dangerous goods in general. BTW - that's not just true for Germany, but - as a minimum - for the EU.
The disc was probably inspired by a slightly different sign. There is a similar one with grey numbers instead of cars, lifting the speed limit and another one with just the grey lines without any simbols, which lifts the speed limit as well as any other former prohibitions (like overtaking for example). As for "polluted fluids" I think this might be a weird translation. Some substances are classified as marine/water pollutant and therefore can´t use certain roads wich are close to a body of water in case of a spill.
The sign with the diagonal lines through is alsways an end of a specific prohibition, in this case the no passing/overtaking zone ends. If it is a general "every prohibition ends" it has nothing in the backgound else it does have a reference to whatever prohibition ends in that grey color sheme.
There are some traffic signs and there are some "symbols". The symbols are warning lights on your dashboard, and at 12:17 it is the symbols for preheating a diesel engine. An old Mercedes Diesel (like I had one from 1964) could take up to one minute of preheating in he wintertime. A strong battery was essential in this case.
preheating is for diesel vehicles where you dont have stark plugs but glow plugs. these get super warm (1600F) to help a cold engine to start. this might take a few seconds, so there is a indication light
"End of the overtaking prohibition" sign. I felt your frustration when you cried out loud: "I don`t know!!" And then I had to laugh so hard when you said: " I thought this had something to do with speed!?! What else has overtaking to do with but speed?!!! But this is a classic example of how easily we get confused and even make unnecessary mistakes when we get insecure. Of course, in the end, you chose the right answer :))) You did so great, and you made me laugh so hard. Thank you for that!
@08:03 : this is an extension sign, coming with another sign on the top. This is normally used with the priority road sign (white/yellow diamond) , but can also be used with the "right to drive" sign.
17:26 It is actually the symbol for the cooling water temperature. It is displayed when there is a lack of cooling water or the cooling water cannot keep up with cooling the engine, so that there is a risk of the engine overheating.
17:20 Actually it is the temperature within the cooling system of the engine - the wiggly lines representing the cooling water. 18:15 The mandatory part is that cars have to give yield to pedestrians at this crossing.
That's why I think option 3 was misleading on that temperature thing. Sure, engine temperature is connected to it, but the symbol literally is about the temperature of the cooling fluid. But again, all the questions about dash board symbols... every car in the world has those symbols, right? I don't get how there's any confusion about them.
Angry face from side .... never saw this in that sign. 😁And yes we had Mystbusters syncronized in german, but years ago, and i like Adam and Jamie very much. I accidentally found Adam's YT channel a few weeks ago and had to smile when I saw that we've all gotten older, but he still has his charming charisma. Anyway i would never imagine Jamies face in our street sign. 😅 It is symbolic of an intersection and the thick arch shows the course of the priority road.
I think the reason why high beam signs point to the left and fog lights to the right is because these street signs usually stand on the right side of the road and then from your perspective, left is forward and right is backwards.
At 5:30 you were not far of with the disc golf. There is a similar sign, but it has a speed written in it (or also nothing written in it). It means "end of speed limit", if you see that on the Autobahn it means "let's goooooo". Pre-Heating is for older Diesel models, actually required a couple of seconds of pre-heating before you could start the engine.
@10:59 the sign actually mimics the orange warning plate that is mandatory on trucks when transporting dangerous goods. (The plate also shows a number that identifies the type of substance to e.g. firefighters; the traffic sign just displays a simplified version.)
Preheating is for Diesel cars only. Because Diesel is self ignited in the engine, you need to preheat the engine in the winter times. usually the is done when turning the ignition key in one position before the ignition position....
@12:00 The symbol is a thing for diesel vehicles, it is basically a light showing the glow plug is being preheated. The time varies with outside temp. With manual ignition you turn key to the first stage and wait for it to go out before you turn fully to engage the starter. Diesel do not use spark plugs, but instead ignites due to compression temperature, so it needs a high enough starting temp. The glow plug helps with that during initial start. It can also be activated (automatically) under light loads to help with efficiency.
The fog lights make perfectly sense bcs orange is at the back (red light) and the one for the front is green as the one for the headlights :) and btw these traffic signs or at least very similar ones are widely used all over the globe by most of the countries because they don’t exclude people who cannot read in a certain language so the signs were designed to be very intuitive to people to understand them
12:12 Old diesel engines need to be preheated in cold conditions to be able to start. That's the icon on the dash lighting up showing that the preheater is still active.... Usually you can start when the light goes out. ;)
19:38 the simplest way to visualize the fog lights is, the rear is made to be seen by others! It does not point to the ground, it faces the the cars behind you head on! Thats why the horizontal lines are horizontal. The front fog lights are made to illuminate the ground infront of you, the lines aim slightly downwards (and to the left)
@Ryan: The dashbord icons are always from your point of fiew, if you are standing in front of the driver side door. Everything pointing left is front, everything pointing right is back. Also the dashbord lights utilize warning colors. Green and blue are informational, yellow are warnings (check out asap), red is critical (stop immediately). So, some indicator for windshield heating can never be red, it can never cause your car to break down completely.
12:10 preheating = before starting the "diesel engine", you need to heat teh glow plug (instead of spark plugs at gas engines, you need glow plugs at your diesel engines). The old diesel engines, need to be preheated. To do that, you usually need to turn the car key a bit, wait till the "betzel sign" at the controllpanel turnes off, and then you need to continue to turn the car key more (til the end) untill the car begins to start the engine. This procedure was required to reach the 900 degres celsius, to inflame the diesel. But it usualy takes not more than 2, 3 or 4 sekonds at a cold engine.
For me what stands out here, is that Ryan is realy good at *figuring* out the right answer by correctly eliminating the wrong ones. The problem is, he does not have time for that in trafic. So the point is that the test is supposed to test if u *know* what the sighn means! All these questions should be like 5ish sek. questions at most in a real test. All that said, to be fair on Ryan, what u need to know is that u have sessions of 45-90 min. several times before u take the real test where u learn about all the sighns and car-warnings etc. Now for me its over 20 years since i took the test, and it was in another european country, but i had like 15 sessions of 45 min each, before i was allowed to go for the real test. Durring these sessions, ull learn about sighns, warning lamps in ur car, theoretical stuff about breaking and reaction time / distance, weather factors etc.etc., u also do a couple of those test on every session as well, so u sort of get the hang of em. The real test back then when i took it, was not 127 questions, but a random selection of the total amount of diffrent questions, so lets say maybe 30 questions and u had to get like 27 or so correct. Also what i am missing here, is that in my theoretical test back then, there were also pictures of trafic situations, with a specific question attached that u had to answer, like showing u a situation where there is a truck ahead of u on a narrow road with full drawn line in the middle of the road. And the question would be, u approach this truck what will u do next ? A: I got the faster car, so i overtake the truck at the next possibility. B : I honk the horn until the truck moves over and lets me pass. C: I stay behind the truck because i am not allowed to overtake the truck at this moment.
With the preheating the glow plugs of a diesel engine will be heated electrically at cold temperatures to allow the engine to start at cold temperatures. With a running engine the glow plug stay hot without current and are the point of self ignition. Preheating lamp is a status and malfunction sign for the preheating for diesel engines usually more noticed at cold temperatures when the lamp shows preheating, and startup is delayed.
Greetings from a truck driver. The idea behind the prohibition of driving certain roads is for example to protect water reservoirs of a residented area (drinking water ect.) Preheating is from older diesel engines. They needed to be preheated before start. One of the trucks I once drove refused to start, if I screwed up the procedure. Head lights are always to the left and back lights to the right. The head fog light is recognizable because its not just looking left its also pionting down. And nice job so far, keep going.
10:00 For dangerous goods the truck has to carry a orange sign with the number identifying the dangerous good loaded. Thus the orange in the trailer is prohibiting trucks carrying that sign. As for the signs in general: circle = must obey (red = prohibited, blue = mandatory, white/gray = prohibited removed, blue / red = mandatory removed) triangle (pointing up) = warning square / rectangle = information triangle (pointing down) = yield octagon = stop diamond (yellow in white) = priority road (crossed out = end of priority road)
you really should do some other questions than just signs 😅 I think the video-questions would be interesting. There you can watch a short video for up to 3 times and then you have to answer a question to it. Usually at the end of the video something happens and you have to decide what to do in this situation 😅 I think that's quite a good way of asking a question in a driving test.
I might be seeing patterns where there is none, but to me, the logic for the direction of the front vs. rear lights, is what way they point when entering the driver's door.
10:14 The trucks that are not allowed carry these orange signs. Usually there are numbers on the signs, the "Kemler number" and the UN Number. Kemler gives the type of danger ("3" = inflammable liquid, "33" highly inflammable liquid) UN number gives the name of the dangerous stuff. There is also an additional information: If there is an "X" in addition to the normal numbers, the stuff must not come into contact with water (e.g. metallic sodium).
5:00 those lines are basically a „crossing out“, which means they „end“ something. if you see that sign without the two cars on the autobahn, it means that the speed limitation is canceled -> as soon as you see this sign, you can go as fast as you want.
Hi Ryan ... I have just done the test and got 120 right. Most of the ones I got wrong were the dashboard signs that are now in the newer cars. My car is 14 years old and doesn't have AC or tyre presure control and a couple of other things.
Preheating is only for vehicles with diesel engines. When you turn the ignition on, the glow plugs heat up the combustion chambers for easier start of the engine.
5:50 There is another shield which is basically the same but without the two cars. And thats the one for - End of Speed Limit - quite fitting for the disc I think😃
@Ryan At about minute 10 where you were nearly right....fluids are mostly transported (in masse) in round barrels like e.g. milk. That what the sign would show then, a round backside tank for something. And regarding explosives your were 100% right, the sign is showing a booom and can be understood instantly.
The prohibition sign for trucks with polluted/dangerous fluids has an orange oval instead of a square since fluids are usually transported in large tank trucks. ^^
About all the light questions. The lines show where the light is shining, so it's pretty self explanatory. The high beam sign for example has the light rays point straight ahead and the low beams from the previous video were pointing downwards. Rear fog lights is pointing backwards (and the squiggly line is the fog, I guess). The weird round shape is the light bulb/lense.
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Yeah but this 'test' is only about signs and barely scratches the surface of complete driving school and exams 😉
I think that's because that's the beginning. The beginning is always about signs
@@jonasl.4810 Looked at the site, it stays with signs and warning lamps for all of the 127 questions...
Yeah the signs are easy. Can’t wait till he comes to the hard part
No, I made the whole test, and unfortunately it is only about signs :(
Preheatin is common in disel engine
I think Ryan shouldn't drive in Germany because he would stop at every traffic sign and spend 30 minutes discussing what that meant. 🤔😉
That's why he would have to take driving lessons first. :D
@@Vampirzaehnchen he is making a joke and you should respond with: 😂
What about the not-stopping sign.
just at the stop sign he wouldnt stop, because duh, too obvious!
I´m german and I dont drive because i dont want to stop all the time to think about what each sign means lol
The scary part is that your US driver license would entitle you to drive in Germany, at least temporarily …
That is scary and we always tell people to study the signs online before renting a car in Germany. And then practicing rechts vor links a whole lot with us driving them around.
In fact it depends on the state you are from as an American 🙄
@@jorg4443 That's only for the full conversion ("Umschreibung") as a permanent resident, as I understand it: Even if your state does not qualify (Illinois does, for what it's worth) you can still drive for up to 6 months in Germany on your US license.
Permanently even, if the American in question lives in one of the 26 states that have special agreements with Germany. Scary stuff.
Allowed, but not clever.
So...damn.
Anyway .. never seen an american crash driver make it to my village, so not my problem. 😀
Funny how Ryan is becoming a pro on signage but there is so much more to the test. Braking distances, and a whole set of legal numbers to memorize.
50m 100m 200m
I put up a mock test for him to try above.
It's timed and everything, he'll go nuts. lol
But of course #RUclips censored it because it had a perfectly safe and fine link.
#RUclips and #google are starting to piss me off a lot lately, they are starting to get a bit pathetic.
No more engagement form me folks, #RUclips won't allow me.
I'll spend my time in another way.
@how2pick4name There's a link to a video request form in the description. That's probably your best bet.
Ok, alright, we will get there!! You must work for the DMV of berlin. Who can I email for my drivers license when I'm done?
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German Driving Instructor here to clear up some things about the scoring. There is a catalogue of well over 700 questions in the meantime, and an algorythm will pick out 30 for your exam. Those will be 20 "Base Knowlegde" questions (General Traffic Rules, Signs, Laws), and 10 "specific" questions for the type of vehicle you are learning (e.g. car or bike technical questions - for commerical trucks and buses there are 20 Specific Questions). Obviously the Algorythm will attempt to make the test fair as in everybody gets the same amout of questions about a certain topic, but it'll be different questions everytime.
Each question has a point value, easy ones will have 2, mid-tier has 3 or 4 very important ones will have a 5 point value. These points get added up when you answer them wrong (Fehlerpunkte, engl. "Error Score"). In order to pass, you will then need to answer all 30 questions and have an error score of at most 10, but you can have at most one 5-pointer wrong.
Two 5-Point Questions wrong -> Fail.
One or Zero 5-Point Questions wrong but still more than 10 Error Points -> Fail (e.g. 5+3+3)
One or Zero 5-Point Questions wrong and an error score from 0 to 10 -> You passed!
So if you only fail the relatively easy and not-so important 2-Pointers, you could get away with up to 5 wrong answers. If you fail important questions, you might even fail at your second error. But keep in mind, the real test is really only 30 Questions, not 127. What you are doing there looks to me like some sort of preperation for the test, to get to know the Questions. Also, the Questions in the real test are multiple choice with 3 different answer options, and one, two or even all three options can be correct. You seem to have 4 options with only one beeing correct which isn't an accurate representation.
Thank you so much! I couldn't remember that from my own test. My test was a few decades ago (damn I can really say this now... I'm getting OLD ^^) and I think there were only 8 possible failure points back then, but I guess we had fewer than 700 questions to learn, so maybe they raised the errror tolerance or the point values of the questions.
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Its similar in Croatia only that incorrectly answering the 5 pointers, which are always photos of a traffic situtation on a junction and you have to answer what the correct flow of traffic based on rules,signs and traffic lights is.
Hm, sounds a bit more complicated than the Danish test, although similar. :-)
@@lhplSeeing that we, now, have European driver's licences, I'd have assumed that the tests have to be simple at least, if not harmonized, even, anyway...
I like how he's starting to pick up on patterns of sign designs. It really shows how methodical/logical/modular the system actually is for the majority of possible signs.
Yea and it shows how hes thinking about it, I like it :)
@@Delibroby the end of this part, he seems to be catching on to the idea that it is both the colour _and_ the shape that matter for blue signs.
Yeah, that means that he's a smart guy, that's fast in picking up patterns. I know many German who got that information on a silver platter and still got it wrong :D
Would be cool if you do another test that reflects more the real exam questions. This one is all about symbols and signs. At most 5% of the real exam is about that. In the real exam, you are often asked about right of way rules and how you should behave in certain situations.
yes, please do it
Real exam can show like a situation in first person view out of a car with a bunch of signs and then it asks, with multiple choice on how to behave and/or what to look out for specifically in this situation
@@Salzui And the most painful answer usually is: "Hold the steering wheel firmly and continue driving straight ahead"
Yes please!
But this one is fun as well. „What does this sign mean?“ 🤭
He should probably finish with this one, before moving on to complex traffic situations. He won’t be able to interpret those if he doesn’t know the meaning of the signs.
Sidenote: Blue does often but not always mean mandatory. Signs on the Autobahn are blue. And Parking signs as well 🅿️
Maybe think of blue as Do This/Allowed and red as Don’t Do This/ Not Allowed
Edit: Red also means Danger or Warning
Yeah well, i put up a link to a free exam in English but youtube censored it.
I'm fed up with that pathetic behaviour so I'm out of here.
No more comments and likes on youtube, I'll watch it ad free in another way.
Byeeeeeee! lol
Jaywalking ist actually legal in Germany. What Germans often get upset about is, when you cross at a red pedestians traffic light. We have No concept of generally not being allowed to cross the street when there is no specific indication for that. For a Long Time I thought jaywalking meant crossing at a red traffic light AS a pedestian
12:15 Preheating is required for Diesel engines. They don't start when cold. On the other hand, with modern Diesel engines, preheating only takes about one or two seconds, so you barely notice it.
yeah i even wonder, as many of the old american pickups, like gmc, chevy and so on, are diesel engines.. so i guess, that preheat sign would be on those cars too..
I had recently a problem with my Skoda (old model) with that coil sign blinking which I knew was preheating. The problem was that blinnking meant something else and after one week I noticed my stop lights were not working (pedal switch problem). Luckly I drove only few shopping errands during the time in a small vilage and noticed broken lights when reverse parking in my garage during the night. Fixed the next day but I was/am scared when realising the danger I was in and for other drivers also. I do not know if was my stupidity or car design stupidy (mostly a combination of both with accent on first).
@@apclaudiu Well if your car puts the preheating sign blinking to indicate your stop lights not working this is really stupid :D
@@apclaudiuMe wondering why everyone behind me pulls the high beam... turns out BOTH of my rear lights simultaneously decided to go brrr. Whacked one until it burnt again, drove home, fixed thedamn things and lost a screw on the way...
Murphy's at its best.
I would guess some of the cables in the car are wrong connected when a broken breaking light makes the preheating light blinking.
Fun fact: a German DMV office once forced a German guy flying over from Australia (not Austria) to fetch his new driver's license. So, no email ain't working.
Only blue *circles* mean mandatory, blue *squares* (like with pedestrian crossings or "oncoming drivers have to give way" or "begin of a tunnel" or "dead end") are informational signs
I wouldn't call them "informational"; they do establish a rule. It's just not a "you must (not)" type of rule. For example, the "P" sign allows you to park (i.e. it establishes the rule "parking allowed here"), but it doesn't force you to park. And the one shown in the video overrules the normal rules for narrow roads, allowing you to proceed.
@@HenryLoenwind they are "suggestions"
@@HenryLoenwind that's not really how traffic rules work in Germany. If there are no signs, you are allowed to, for example, park everywhere (where it's not prohibited by a general rule); if you wouldn't be allowed, there would be a sign. So rules aren't set positive but always negative, indicating that something is prohibited.
In this case this sign informs us that the oncoming driver has a sign to give way to oncoming traffic.
Same with the P sign; it just informs you that parking is allowed here. It would also be allowed without it. If it weren't, there would be a sign indicating that. But I think P signs are mostly used to inform about bigger parking spaces. I have never seen them in a normal parking spot next to the road.
Hopefully I phrased it kind of understandably; sorry if not. ;D
He already has the right solution and the somewhat correct reasoning for it in many cases and then overthinks it into wrong territory.
12:22 Diesel engines sometimes have to be reaheated, this is the symbol for the preaheating glowplugs being active
That reminds of those videos about "CRAZY DIESEL COLD STARTS" where they just keep turning their engine over and over until the old girl laboriously sputters to life. Why.
Just turn the keys a few times and get your cylinders warm and it'll start right up, even in Antarctica.
Ryan! 16:22 Critical things are always red! - Window defrost cant be red. red -> critical (failure), yellow -> warning, blue -> most of the time just high beams, green -> systems working ok, like cruise control
The lines are coolant, water...
And I'm pretty sure that these symbols are standardized all over the world. So he probably used the window defrost several times on his own car
No car here has front window defrosting
@@Salzui You mean in america or germany. In america I found this on the Ford D150, which I think is very popular in the US. i.ytimg.com/vi/-51t4WZfqkY/maxresdefault.jpg And here in germany every car I had had it. BTW defroster doesn't neccesarily mean hot wires in the window. For the front window it is hot air from the A/C blowing at the window at full power
@@Salzuiwell my car DOES have front window heating, so it can defrost🤷🏻♀️
I would love to see you try an official German theoretical driving tests, there are also videos and other elements. Love your vids!
I sent him a link to a mock test, timed and everything. Now wait and see if he finds and does it. :)
The sign for equestrians prohibitet at 2:55 can often be seen on hiking trails. In germany nearly all paths in forests (even private forests) are free for all and to prevent accidents, not all of them are allowed for equestrians.
And for the shape and color of signs in general:
- blue and round: something is mandatory
- round sign with red border: something is prohibited
- triangle pointing up and red border: warning for something
blue and square: recommended
@@Salzui or just information (like the pedestrian crossing).
"Additional info" are white squares with black writing/symbols and usually require the other sign to make sense
and white and round with 4 thin diagonal lines: whatever was prohibited before gets lifted.
@@robertheinrich2994except for minimum speed ends, thus is blue, circled with red diagonal stripe.
I just had to take the test myself (I am Czech and wanted to try the German one, altho they are almost the same) I had 2 wrong where one of them was based on German word for emissions and I didn't have a clue. This just shows how the image system is superior to the US one. I can understand German signage without the knowlage of the language and I can easily pass the driving test there as the rules are basically the same. (also it took me about 15 minutes to do all questions, but I didn't have to entertain my audience)
About the “end of overtaking prohibition”-sign (5:00): the “overtaking prohibition sign” (Überholverbotsschild) would be a red circle with one black and one red car. This greyed out version with the lines through it lifts the ban. The design you’re referring to is likely related to the same sign we see here but without the cars in it. That sign is used to lift any speed limits previously stated on any sign. If you’re on the Autobahn, this means there’s no speed limit at all anymore. That would make sense for a fast thrower :)
That sign without the greyed out cars in it lifts all bans, the one to lift the speedlimit has the greyed out speed limit in it, instead of the cars.
Now I can't unsee the angry face 😂
I lost it at the Jamie Hyneman thing 😂😂😂 pretty accurate
@5:45 general misconception, the grey stripes doent mean no speed limit, it means end of a certain restriction (here overtaking with the 2 car icons) - if there are multiple restictions (for example speed, overtaking, parking, honking) the blank gray stripes means all of this restrictions are gone - only at the autobahn without general speed limit it means you can drive faster
There's a LOT of jay walking in Germany. Many Americans get it wrong, thinking Germans don't do this. It is not prohibited at all and many people do it. Germans are not at all as law-obedient as you believe. Speeding is a daily basis thing here, for example. It's VERY frequent.
Question 5: Yes, a white round sign with diagonal lines can have something to do with going fast. Those signs are generally used to tell the driver that prohibitions end here, which have been previously announced by one of the various signs that have a red circle with something in it. Such prohibition signs include e.g. the prohibition of overtaking (pictrogram of two vehicles beside each other in a red circle) but also speed limits (the number of the max speed in km/h inside a red circle) or the prohibition for certain vehicles to use that road (like the rare equestrians prohibited sign from the question before). If there is no pictogram on the white sign, just the diagonal lines, it means that EVERY such prohibition that may have been previously announced ends here. If the white sign has a pictogram in it, it means only the prohibition with the same pictogram in it (in this case the prohibition to overtake cars) ends here, while e.g. a speed limit that has been previously announced remains unchanged.
This series is so funny and for some reason so satisfying to watch :D
I just don't get, why he doesn't record all parts of it right away and, instead, risks to closing the tab again. That would also give him the opportunity to have something in the drawer for days on which he might be sick or unavailable. But well...
10:30 Regarding the "polluted fluids": We do have signs for that as well, but generally, if a sign is regarding fluids, you will see wavy lines. And if it has to do with fluids on a truck the truck will have a oval/round shape on top, to represent a tank, instead of a box for solid goods.
It also becomes much more logical when you know that dangerous goods transports are marked with a rectangular orange plate on the truck (containing a number that identifies the substance for e.g. firefighters).
@@stephanweinberger Wollte ich gerade auch posten, aber Du hast es ja schon erklärt ;)
I liked the defrost window one. Sure those lines reminded of the REAR window, but in the question it was about the FRONT window. You said if it was about the engine, the symbol would show an engine, but you didn't realize that the symbol didn't show a window either... anyway, it was fun! Thing to remember: not all blue signs are mandatory :)
that is what i said. i dont know the solution, but i bet the window one will have a window shape! :)
You might want to know that there is (almost) no jaywalking in germany. Crossing a road is generally allowed for pedestrians, within some limitations. So the "Warning for Pedestrians" makes sense if there is a spot where crossings happen frequently.
And at some point you will notice that there blue signs that are circles and squares, and that those might mean different things 😉
And I don't know why light symbols are facing the way they do, but they match directions when you are facing the driver door of a car at least. Left side forward, right side backward.
White circle sign with 5 black diagonal stripes means a previous prohibition got canceled (the red circle signs). If there is no symbol or speed limit in the sign and it's just the white circle with the 5 black diagonal stripes, it means all prohibitions are cancled, including the speed limit - which means you can drive as fast as you want, that's why the designed his disc like that.
I hope that this kind of online thing does not really replace a written exam. Otherwise I would expect a time limit of, let's say 60 minutes for 120 questions. While driving, you should regognize a sign within less than 2 seconds, and not guessing about its meaning for 2 minutes while driving 30 mph.
And the multiple choice with just ONE correct answer per question is far, far more easy than my test some (many) years ago. 17:35 The sign "zebra crossing" had (in my exam) the following correct answers to be marked: "You have to stop if pedestrians apparently intend to cross the road", PLUS: "You are not allowed to park withing 15 meters in front of the Zebra" (could be also 5 meters, but I anyways don't even dare to park in front of Zebras), AND "It is not allowed to overtake anyone". If you failed to mark just one of the correct answers, the whole question was qualified as failure.
And because this type of question was considered to be significant for driving safety, a failure would have given you 3 or 4 negative failure points - out of maximum 6 (!) - for the whole test.
Red circle: Indicates prohibition, such as speed limits.
Blue circle: Represents mandatory actions, like minimum speed requirements.
Right-side-up triangle: Indicates warning signs.
End of restriction: Black and white version of the sign with black lines crossing, indicating the end of prohibitions, such as speed limits or overtaking restrictions (if it's only the white circle with a black line, it signifies the end of any prohibition).
In general, there are no trick answers or responses that do not correspond to a question. If there is a possible answer for a sign indicating a narrowing road, there is indeed a corresponding sign for it.
It's important to mention that there are questions with additional sub-questions. You can only earn points if you correctly answer the main question. For example, you might receive a photo of an intersection, and the main question could be, "What does your sign mean?" You earn 1 point for that. If you answer correctly, you might receive a second question about the same picture, like "Which car goes first?" which could be worth 2 points. If you get the main question wrong, you lose 3 points without even answering the additional question.
Any information could not be correct for Germany since I am from Austria, but in general it should be the same.
10:50 Vehicles with polluted fluids prohibited exists, but it looks different. It shows a truck for fluids. These trucks have a cylindrical trailer.
That sign is used at places where an aquifer is used for drinking water.
6:00 a "greyed out" version of a traffic sign with the bars crossing over ends that sign. So in this case, it ends the overtaking prohibition. And the sign the disc references was the end of a speed limit, which has the original speed limit sign under the bars, thus a number and not two cars.
10:00 vehicles carrying dangerous goods have an orange warning plate specifying the material transported ... this is what the orange colour on the sign references to. and: polluted or explosive goods actually are dangerous goods :)
12:00 Diesel engines need to preheat before starting, and show this icon while "not starting".
13:30 it's blue, but it's not round, so it's not a "mandatory" sign.
Please keep this series going. Its fun to watch.
19:53 : Stand next to your drivers door facing to car. What direction front lights points, and rear lights? Easy way to remember. ;)
Thank you! I always confuse those myself because I find it illogical (based of reading direction) but it actually makes sense now :D
@12:18 : Diesel engines have to get the cylinder pre heated. Diesels don't have a spark plug, they are self igniting and have to be pre heated.
5:50 you think it has something to do with going fast because that is also how you have the speed limit. It's the same sign, but instead of the cars it's a speed limit number, otherwise colors and lines are the same
11:00 the other 2 options were too specific to have a sign and the dangerous goods would cover both options
14:00 Mandatory isn't determined by the color blue, it's a blue circle (so both color and shape of sign), any other blue does not mean mandatory
19:30 mostly because it's angled straight and front lights must all be angled downward so front fog lights will also indicate the beam as angled unless high beams
The preheating icon is used in diesel cars, I believe they are called Glow plugs in english. They warm up the combustion chamber for easier diesel startup in cold tempearture.
yep it's due to diesel engines not using spark plugs for combustion, but instead rely on high pressure -and this high pressure can be difficult to build in a cold engine where material may need some preheat to expand to working spec and the fluids etc heat up for viscosity to allow for easier movement of crankshaft and pistons etc. You can sometimes get away with rolling the car down a hill so gravity initiates the movement for you in case preheat doesn't function properly to enable the starter to do its job on its own.
Starting the engine ahead of time is actually illegal in germany. The combustion chambers of diesel engines are preheated when you turn on the ignition. Otherwise they would not start in cold conditions. That takes only around a second.
About your dashboard: yellow means warning, red means critical - and the preheating is for a Diesel to help with the self-ignition when the engine is cold.
Blue circle : mandatory
Blue square : information
@Ryan Wass: About rear fog lights shining to the right. This is not a traffic sign but a signal for the driver inside the car. Usually, if you draw a car from the side, then most people are used to "read" the picture from left to right, this means they expect the front of the car to be on the left and the back on the right. Since the rear lights of the car are then supposed to shine away from the car, they have to shine to the right.
It's so funny to watch your videos and I can improve my English because it's about a topic I know about...
Thank you for your contributions and kind regards from Stuttgart (Germany)
Always remember germans tend to get such things quite logical. For example the Sign with the "truck dangerous goods prohibited": The cargo was orange, so it has to do with the cargo - you got that exactly right. Now the orange part of the cargo has neither an explosive symbol, or a skull, etc. A skull on orange is poison, a "bang" is explosives, so the orange makes it a "danger" sign. No symbol means all kinds of dangerous cargo. I had my problems with that sign too, but logic helped me out completely.
Didn't know the sign either but my german logic failed me. Looks like dirty water I thought - especially since it's fully filled.
Yes, it just mimicks the orange sign that needs to be in the back of the truck in case of carrying dangerous cargo. The numbers on the sign will specify, what kind of cargo it is and what the potential main danger with it is.
The symbols, you are talking about, will be next to the orange sign, like the skull, the exploding bomb, and the lake with a dead fish and a dead tree, if the cargo is a poisonous liquid.
Thus, the orange sign as shown in the traffic sign must be indicating dangerous goods in general.
BTW - that's not just true for Germany, but - as a minimum - for the EU.
"This is an angry face." Great! Never seen it before, but will every time from now on :D
The disc was probably inspired by a slightly different sign. There is a similar one with grey numbers instead of cars, lifting the speed limit and another one with just the grey lines without any simbols, which lifts the speed limit as well as any other former prohibitions (like overtaking for example).
As for "polluted fluids" I think this might be a weird translation. Some substances are classified as marine/water pollutant and therefore can´t use certain roads wich are close to a body of water in case of a spill.
The sign with the diagonal lines through is alsways an end of a specific prohibition, in this case the no passing/overtaking zone ends. If it is a general "every prohibition ends" it has nothing in the backgound else it does have a reference to whatever prohibition ends in that grey color sheme.
There are some traffic signs and there are some "symbols". The symbols are warning lights on your dashboard, and at 12:17 it is the symbols for preheating a diesel engine. An old Mercedes Diesel (like I had one from 1964) could take up to one minute of preheating in he wintertime. A strong battery was essential in this case.
preheating is for diesel vehicles where you dont have stark plugs but glow plugs. these get super warm (1600F) to help a cold engine to start. this might take a few seconds, so there is a indication light
Made me laugh so much when you kept reading the same question out 😂
What a laugh from Ryan every time, bless him.
"End of the overtaking prohibition" sign. I felt your frustration when you cried out loud: "I don`t know!!"
And then I had to laugh so hard when you said: " I thought this had something to do with speed!?! What else has overtaking to do with but speed?!!!
But this is a classic example of how easily we get confused and even make unnecessary mistakes when we get insecure. Of course, in the end, you chose the right answer :)))
You did so great, and you made me laugh so hard. Thank you for that!
I could watch this for hours ngl, very entertaining
@08:03 : this is an extension sign, coming with another sign on the top. This is normally used with the priority road sign (white/yellow diamond) , but can also be used with the "right to drive" sign.
this is so funny 🤣 "what does this traffic sign mean?"
every question in the first video 🤣👍
17:26 It is actually the symbol for the cooling water temperature. It is displayed when there is a lack of cooling water or the cooling water cannot keep up with cooling the engine, so that there is a risk of the engine overheating.
17:20 Actually it is the temperature within the cooling system of the engine - the wiggly lines representing the cooling water.
18:15 The mandatory part is that cars have to give yield to pedestrians at this crossing.
That's why I think option 3 was misleading on that temperature thing. Sure, engine temperature is connected to it, but the symbol literally is about the temperature of the cooling fluid.
But again, all the questions about dash board symbols... every car in the world has those symbols, right? I don't get how there's any confusion about them.
Pretzels up ahead😂 this already made my day
Angry face from side .... never saw this in that sign. 😁And yes we had Mystbusters syncronized in german, but years ago, and i like Adam and Jamie very much. I accidentally found Adam's YT channel a few weeks ago and had to smile when I saw that we've all gotten older, but he still has his charming charisma.
Anyway i would never imagine Jamies face in our street sign. 😅
It is symbolic of an intersection and the thick arch shows the course of the priority road.
I think the reason why high beam signs point to the left and fog lights to the right is because these street signs usually stand on the right side of the road and then from your perspective, left is forward and right is backwards.
Exactly. That's what the symbols look like on American cars too.
Oh nooo! I can't unsee the angry face sideways anymore now! 🤣
At 5:30 you were not far of with the disc golf. There is a similar sign, but it has a speed written in it (or also nothing written in it). It means "end of speed limit", if you see that on the Autobahn it means "let's goooooo".
Pre-Heating is for older Diesel models, actually required a couple of seconds of pre-heating before you could start the engine.
@10:59 the sign actually mimics the orange warning plate that is mandatory on trucks when transporting dangerous goods. (The plate also shows a number that identifies the type of substance to e.g. firefighters; the traffic sign just displays a simplified version.)
The tests from traffic-rules are much more streamlined and easier than the tests from the actual countries.
Ryan completely outraged about his performance...
also Ryan: I have so much fun doing this....
Preheating is for Diesel cars only. Because Diesel is self ignited in the engine, you need to preheat the engine in the winter times. usually the is done when turning the ignition key in one position before the ignition position....
@12:00 The symbol is a thing for diesel vehicles, it is basically a light showing the glow plug is being preheated. The time varies with outside temp. With manual ignition you turn key to the first stage and wait for it to go out before you turn fully to engage the starter. Diesel do not use spark plugs, but instead ignites due to compression temperature, so it needs a high enough starting temp. The glow plug helps with that during initial start. It can also be activated (automatically) under light loads to help with efficiency.
11:30 "preheat" is the glow plugs in a diesel to make it easier to start in cold weather.
The fog lights make perfectly sense bcs orange is at the back (red light) and the one for the front is green as the one for the headlights :) and btw these traffic signs or at least very similar ones are widely used all over the globe by most of the countries because they don’t exclude people who cannot read in a certain language so the signs were designed to be very intuitive to people to understand them
12:12 Old diesel engines need to be preheated in cold conditions to be able to start.
That's the icon on the dash lighting up showing that the preheater is still active.... Usually you can start when the light goes out. ;)
You are so competitive. Love it.
im looking forward to the "situation pictures" bit of the test where it asks whats the right thing to do here
19:38 the simplest way to visualize the fog lights is, the rear is made to be seen by others! It does not point to the ground, it faces the the cars behind you head on!
Thats why the horizontal lines are horizontal.
The front fog lights are made to illuminate the ground infront of you, the lines aim slightly downwards (and to the left)
@Ryan: The dashbord icons are always from your point of fiew, if you are standing in front of the driver side door. Everything pointing left is front, everything pointing right is back.
Also the dashbord lights utilize warning colors. Green and blue are informational, yellow are warnings (check out asap), red is critical (stop immediately). So, some indicator for windshield heating can never be red, it can never cause your car to break down completely.
12:10 preheating = before starting the "diesel engine", you need to heat teh glow plug (instead of spark plugs at gas engines, you need glow plugs at your diesel engines). The old diesel engines, need to be preheated. To do that, you usually need to turn the car key a bit, wait till the "betzel sign" at the controllpanel turnes off, and then you need to continue to turn the car key more (til the end) untill the car begins to start the engine. This procedure was required to reach the 900 degres celsius, to inflame the diesel. But it usualy takes not more than 2, 3 or 4 sekonds at a cold engine.
For me what stands out here, is that Ryan is realy good at *figuring* out the right answer by correctly eliminating the wrong ones. The problem is, he does not have time for that in trafic. So the point is that the test is supposed to test if u *know* what the sighn means! All these questions should be like 5ish sek. questions at most in a real test. All that said, to be fair on Ryan, what u need to know is that u have sessions of 45-90 min. several times before u take the real test where u learn about all the sighns and car-warnings etc. Now for me its over 20 years since i took the test, and it was in another european country, but i had like 15 sessions of 45 min each, before i was allowed to go for the real test.
Durring these sessions, ull learn about sighns, warning lamps in ur car, theoretical stuff about breaking and reaction time / distance, weather factors etc.etc., u also do a couple of those test on every session as well, so u sort of get the hang of em. The real test back then when i took it, was not 127 questions, but a random selection of the total amount of diffrent questions, so lets say maybe 30 questions and u had to get like 27 or so correct. Also what i am missing here, is that in my theoretical test back then, there were also pictures of trafic situations, with a specific question attached that u had to answer, like showing u a situation where there is a truck ahead of u on a narrow road with full drawn line in the middle of the road. And the question would be, u approach this truck what will u do next ? A: I got the faster car, so i overtake the truck at the next possibility. B : I honk the horn until the truck moves over and lets me pass. C: I stay behind the truck because i am not allowed to overtake the truck at this moment.
With the preheating the glow plugs of a diesel engine will be heated electrically at cold temperatures to allow the engine to start at cold temperatures.
With a running engine the glow plug stay hot without current and are the point of self ignition.
Preheating lamp is a status and malfunction sign for the preheating for diesel engines usually more noticed at cold temperatures when the lamp shows preheating, and startup is delayed.
Even the wrong answers lead you towards knowledge. And you already get the colors.
Greetings from a truck driver.
The idea behind the prohibition of driving certain roads is for example to protect water reservoirs of a residented area (drinking water ect.)
Preheating is from older diesel engines. They needed to be preheated before start. One of the trucks I once drove refused to start, if I screwed up the procedure.
Head lights are always to the left and back lights to the right. The head fog light is recognizable because its not just looking left its also pionting down.
And nice job so far, keep going.
10:00 For dangerous goods the truck has to carry a orange sign with the number identifying the dangerous good loaded. Thus the orange in the trailer is prohibiting trucks carrying that sign.
As for the signs in general:
circle = must obey (red = prohibited, blue = mandatory, white/gray = prohibited removed, blue / red = mandatory removed)
triangle (pointing up) = warning
square / rectangle = information
triangle (pointing down) = yield
octagon = stop
diamond (yellow in white) = priority road (crossed out = end of priority road)
you really should do some other questions than just signs 😅 I think the video-questions would be interesting. There you can watch a short video for up to 3 times and then you have to answer a question to it. Usually at the end of the video something happens and you have to decide what to do in this situation 😅 I think that's quite a good way of asking a question in a driving test.
I never knew watching someone taking a test could be so much fun.
I might be seeing patterns where there is none, but to me, the logic for the direction of the front vs. rear lights, is what way they point when entering the driver's door.
Always important to read every question carefully in a test, so don‘t worry :)
Just combine two characteristics of the signs: Blue AND round = mandatory, blue AND rectangular = informative :)
Live stream is a great idea 👍
15:12 It means mandatory wood fired pizza oven
10:14 The trucks that are not allowed carry these orange signs. Usually there are numbers on the signs, the "Kemler number" and the UN Number. Kemler gives the type of danger ("3" = inflammable liquid, "33" highly inflammable liquid) UN number gives the name of the dangerous stuff. There is also an additional information: If there is an "X" in addition to the normal numbers, the stuff must not come into contact with water (e.g. metallic sodium).
5:00 those lines are basically a „crossing out“, which means they „end“ something.
if you see that sign without the two cars on the autobahn, it means that the speed limitation is canceled -> as soon as you see this sign, you can go as fast as you want.
You're doing great - good luck for round 3 from Germany 🍀
We have MythBusters in germany 😊 Thank your for making another part of this!
11:00 in the sign for "polluted fluids prohibited" is a tank truck and waves below the truck
Hi Ryan ... I have just done the test and got 120 right. Most of the ones I got wrong were the dashboard signs that are now in the newer cars. My car is 14 years old and doesn't have AC or tyre presure control and a couple of other things.
Preheating is only for vehicles with diesel engines. When you turn the ignition on, the glow plugs heat up the combustion chambers for easier start of the engine.
just continue! do the whole thing in one video!
Cool, never expected a Disc Golf crossover here 😄
5:50 There is another shield which is basically the same but without the two cars. And thats the one for - End of Speed Limit - quite fitting for the disc I think😃
@Ryan At about minute 10 where you were nearly right....fluids are mostly transported (in masse) in round barrels like e.g. milk. That what the sign would show then, a round backside tank for something. And regarding explosives your were 100% right, the sign is showing a booom and can be understood instantly.
The prohibition sign for trucks with polluted/dangerous fluids has an orange oval instead of a square since fluids are usually transported in large tank trucks. ^^
About all the light questions. The lines show where the light is shining, so it's pretty self explanatory. The high beam sign for example has the light rays point straight ahead and the low beams from the previous video were pointing downwards. Rear fog lights is pointing backwards (and the squiggly line is the fog, I guess). The weird round shape is the light bulb/lense.
The angry face sign 😂😂😂
Fck, now I can't unsee this... 😅