the moment when he thought "Ausfahrt" (exit in english) was a place 😅😅 that gave me the absolute edge, I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂 please someone have to make a clip out of this
The yield/stop/priority signs at the traffic lights only apply if the traffic lights are out of order. Or at smaller intersections, they may be switched off during the night.
The priority in traffic in Europe is: 1. Police signals. That means that If a policeman waves you on you are supposed to ignore all other traffic restrictions and follow their lead! 2. Traffic lights (stoplights in the USA). A sign in a crossing is not valid unless the light is out of order or blinking yellow. 3. Traffic signs. 4. Right of way from the right!
Commercial billboards along the roads are illegal in Germany! It’s only allowed if it gives valuable information to the traffic, like gas stations, restaurants and toilets. They go around it sometimes by parking a trailer with a commercial message on it in a field of to the side.
The car has a start/stop system that turns the engine of when you stop. To keep millions of cars from idling without purpose. When you let go of the break and touch the gas pedal it turns on again automatically.
It's actually some psychology having the traffic light on your own side of the intersection. By having it close to the car, you prevent the car from crossing the stop line (because you can't see the light that way). This is especially useful when there's a bicycle path or crosswalk in front of the traffic light that shouldn't be blocked
Now that makes sense as people in the west have a habit of sticking their nose into the intersection. That's the first time I've ever had anyone mention that.
It'd be really interesting to see you attempt the theoretical test, which you'd actually have to pass before being approved for taking the practical exam.
nah most peope learn extensvely for a month, nobody can make that exam first try without any prep material or time. the attempt itself is extremely expensive.
@@cristina9202 1200-1500 euros initial price, you have 6 month to finish it in that time frame, i think 12-15 hours are granted, each extra hour is 100€-250 € for driving practize. And each new attempt for the big exam also costs extra and has fixed dates since the examiner is operating outside the drivers school for the practical part of the test.
Haha I love that 2:38 😄 "Ausfahrt" means exit. So if you want to exit this part of the faster road (which is not the Autobahn) and go into the more city/rural area with slower speeds, you can do that there.
In the Netherlands the sign simply says "UIT" (Out) but Dutch also has the word "Uitvaart" meaning Funeral. So when Dutch see Ausfahrt, they think why are there so many funerals 😉
00:48 This is not the Autobahn, it is the Kraftfahrtstraße or Bundesstraße. The signs would be blue if it is one.That arrow you are pointing at is just a hint where you have to go, so you dont drive in the wrong lane 02:23 "Ausfahrt" means Exit 05:18 It means "End of Kraftfahrtstraße" 06:07 An arrow is an indicator that u can go and dont have to look out for other Cars, Bicycles or pedestrians (oh yeah, he says it later). Here u can go if u want to turn right but everyon else has to wait. If this arrow turns off, u have to wait too and the Signst only matter if the traffic is off. The Order is Police > Traffic > Signs > Right before left. So there is no Police and the traffic is on, so the Sign doesnt matter. 07:54 The Emos isnt a regular Sign. It's something like an ad or an interesting place to go. 08:03 You are right. If it is red and turning green, then red and yellow are on at the same time. If the traffic light is turning red, then only the yellow is on. 11:06 We have yellow lines if there is a change because of construction. 12:15 Right before left means that u are not allowed to go if someone is right to you 12:51 Yes you are right 16:31 U have an inducton loop under the street. The induction chanes when a car is standing on it so the traffic knows "Oh he here is a car, i have to turn green soon" otherwise the traffic would stay red 18:29 some cars have a feature that the motor turns off when u are standing still and have no gear active (neutral). So u need less gas and u are more economical. But there are also people that say u are harming the motor because it has to start often 20:11 that is the sign that u are on the priority street and the cars left and right have to wait (so you are rght here) 20:58 A green arrow sign means that u are allowed to turn right even if it is red but only if there is no other car coming from the left. So u can go right but dont have priority. Its different to a arrow light. You see the sign primarily in east-germany and not that often in west-germany 22:52 Yes. Pedestrians have priority on that "Zebra-Streifen" 23:10 That red-white-cross means that the tram/train has priority and the lightning inside means that its electrical powered 24:37 under the sign for priority street you have another sign. That means that the priority street is turning left and doesnt go straight forward. The cars which are following the priority lane have priority. The red car wanted to leave the priority street so he has to wait. Thats why it was illegal here. thats why the white lines on the street are turning left too. 30:50 You should open the right door with your right hand because you automatically turn yourself around and look for bicycles and other cars and you should open the left door with your left hand for the same reason. I think that's all :D
@@Leenapanther Ja genau, beide Spuren sind baulich getrennt wie bei einer Autobahn und es sind mindestens 2 Spuren. Ich weiß nicht wie das in der Schweiz ist.
In Germany we don't use a stop sign all that often. We prefer the use of a yield sign because it is more efficient to keep trafic flowing. And often there is no sign at all which by default means you need to yield to traffic coming from your right.
you might say that "yield" is like a 'rolling stop' which americans seem to always do at real "stop" signs when no police can be seen :-) in germany, "stop" signs are much more rare and usually used only at intersections where stopping completely really is important. and instead of 4-way stops (which cause drivers to accelerate in front of such crossings to be first and thus cross first, and which also kind of "devaluate" real stop signs) we have the default rule "right before left" when there are no signs (right-of-way, yield, stop) for crossings with priority roads.
at 19:00 when the traffic light turns from red to red-yellow you hear the motor start. Modern cars often have a "start-stop-automatic" which turns off the motor to save fuel so its really practical to have the yellow light switch on additionally to the red light to announce green for exactly those things like switch to the first gear (which tells the car to start the motor again)
The yellow before the light turns green is especially nice for manual cars, as most will take the car of of gear when stopped and it gives you an indication to put the car back into gear so you are ready to go when the light turns green.
The sound you heard was actually the engine starting up. Most (if not all) newer manual cars shut down the engine when you put them in neutral and release the clutch. As soon as you push down the clutch pedal again, the engine starts and that's exactly what happened when the yellow light came on.
So in a manual it wont stop if you simply keep the clutch in for short waits? My first car with this start/stop system was an automatic so it would shut of the engine after a second or two of standing still.
@@Gazer75 usually not, however I once had a rental Ford van that stopped the engine even if the clutch was held down. But any other manual car I've driven (and that had a start stop system) would only stop if the clutch is released.
The yield sign above the traffic light is as a backup when the light isn't working or goes into yellow flashing mode (mostly at nighttime in rural areas)
06:40 The yield sign only applies if the traffic light is not in service. This might be because the traffic light is broken; on some intersections, the traffic lights are also turned of at night when there's very little traffic. Generally at an intersection rules take the following priority over each other: 1. A police officer guiding the traffic 2. A traffic light 3. Signs 4. Right-before-left rule (If there's a car on the right from your point of view, you need to let it go first). Hope this clarifies it! :)
And to clarify this for Ryan, the police officer guiding the traffic is technically the first priority, but that is not really a thing. I have never seen this in my life.
@@janos5555 However in my 25 years of driving i encounter this exactly 3 times. Last time i saw it, was in Munich at the a major intersection with a broken traffic light.
this is correct. police directing traffic superseeds any traffic light - any traffic light superseeds mounted signs above the traffic light - and if everything else fails, its the traffic sign that dictates what goes and what not.
@@janos5555 It only happens when there's a malfunction or an accident. So chances to encounter them are low. And I have no idea how many people would even understand the hand gestures beyond the most basic ones. It was far more common in the GDR in like the 70s.
@@janos5555 I've only ever seen it in an emergency, when either there was an accident on the intersection, or when a road was closed, when a WW2 bomb was found.
Fun fact about opening the door with your right hand before exiting the car: It's also called "Dutch reach", as cyclists are so common in the Netherlands they came up with this system to reduce accidents
kinda funny as i was thought driving in the netherlands and i never had to do this "manoeuvre" XD btw i got al driving licensec and i littarely have never heard of this.. XD but heey you made me smarter today.. thnks for that :D
@@wytze01 27-01-2022 (website: rij-instructie (.) nl 'IenW laat weten dat het het belangrijkste is om “gewoon” goed uit te kijken bij het openen van de autodeur. Volgens het ministerie kan de Nederlandse greep automobilisten helpen ongevallen door plotseling openslaande autoportieren te voorkomen, maar zijn er inmiddels ook auto’s op de markt waarbij de deurgreep zo ontworpen en geplaatst is dat de deur bij het toepassen van de greep lastiger te openen is. “Dat kan ertoe leiden dat je sneller vergeet goed uit te kijken, omdat je de aandacht nodig hebt om de deur te openen”, zegt IenW. Het CBR laat in het artikel weten de Nederlandse greep niet te verplichten tijdens rijlessen en rijexamens. Volgens het CBR kan de Nederlandse greep wel helpen om medeverkeersdeelnemers te zien bij het uitstappen. “Daarom zijn er rijscholen die hun leerlingen deze methode aanleren”, zegt een woordvoerder.'
In Germany there is something like traffic sign override/priority. A traffic light overrides automatically any yield sign. Sometime traffic lights have yield signs anyway. Those take effect in case the traffic light is out of order.
First time driving in Germany with my 10 and 11 yr old kids, the signs "Ausfahrt" caused them great amusement (for obvious kids' humour reasons). It actually simply means "Exit", of course.
@@Rdlprmpf12 thats interesting, makes sence in a way. ausfahrt means "leaving this type of road" and you leave this world when you get burried at a funeral.
At 18:20 the noise you hear is the "start-stopp-automatik" it basically turns the engine off when you come to a stop to save fuel and when you want to accelerate it automatically turns the car back on. So what you heard was the engine starting :) Edit: not exclusive to manual cars, a lot of automatics have it as well
I'm in Europe but my 2001 model car does not have this feature, neither did my previous 2014 model. Many modern Euro-spec cars do have this though, symbolized on the dash by the letter A in an arrowed circle.
18:30 It's called "Start/Stop-Automatic". The engine is automatically turned off, when you stay on the same spot for a certain period of time. It's automatically turned on, when you press the gas pedal. It saves some fuel, because the engine does not have to run, while you're waiting for the green light.
Clarification for most manual cars with auto-stop-Start: being stopped, on brake, in neutral, with clutch pedal released is a trigger to stop the engine. Pressing the clutch pedal (in order to engage a gear) is the trigger to restart.
24:15 the only reason he got there ahead of the cam car was because he also cut the corner. If he had executed the turn properly it would not have worked out.
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19:40 it's a loophole for the "no billboards on the streets" law. It's an ad on wheels and, since technically it's not a billboard, but a parked trailer, it does not require paperwork to be installed.
The green arrow sign next to the traffic light is an invention of former East Germany and after reunification we integrated it into the now reunified German traffic rules - more than 30 years ago! It allows "right turn on red" which is normally not allowed and the guy just doesn't like it because, contrary to the green arrow traffic light it doesn't mean you can just go without checking traffic from left. Which is probably perfectly normal for you.
@@jakoblindner2356problem is, that there is the Lit up sign aswell as the plain arrow. I do like the Idea of the sign, but next to none drivers stop at the sign, cause theyll interpret it as a 'budget" or even 'permanent' Version of the lit up one.
i think the US has seperate signs for "right turn on red" and "right turn on red after complete stop" also i'm pretty sure the driver in the video would have failed for stopping a the arrow... he is actively obstructing traffic
@@SoftSemtex, no not for stopping, that is necessary here! If regular light is red with this attached tin plate green arrow, you first have to stop, then ensure it is free and then are allowed to turn right while still having red light. Important thing to know, if you ever meet one of this. In my region, this is very rarely used, I just know one traffic light with this.
A general rule of thumb for the signs is: round blue signs tell you what is allowed (e.g. 0:55 tells you to drive on that side of the island) while red signs are warnings or yield signs. Triangular signs with a tip on the top are normally warning signs and if the tip is on the bottom it is a yield sign. Yellow signs are generally informative signs that have an impact on the way you drive. So the sign at 1:14 is telling you which city you are leaving (because of the diagonal line). If you would enter one (no line through it, otherwise the same), that sign would indicate a speed limit of 50km/h which is the default speed limit inside cities, towns and villages. So exiting that area removes that default speed limit. In the last video you were confused about all the priority streets. The yellow diamond shaped sign with white border is telling you that you are on the priority street at this intersection. Bicycle lanes also being a priority street confused you as well, so for clarification: the whole street, not just the pavement where cars drive are considered the priority street. So that includes bicycles and pedestrians. At 2:27 "Ausfahrt" just translates to "exit". Also, the street entered in the beginning of the video is a Schnellstraße/Schnellweg, which is basically a slower version of the Autobahn. They are indicated by a blue sign with the white front of a car inside. The main advantage of those roads is, that they have exit ramps and no traffic lights like an Autobahn. An Autobahn sign is a blue sign with a white triangular looking road, implying perspective (so the tip is on the top). But as you know the Autobahn has speed limits in some areas too (especially near cities) to prevent to much noise and for safety reasons like construction sites, merging lanes and so on. At 6:30 the yield sign above a traffic light is there just in case the traffic light is broken or switched off (which is commonly done during night time when there is less traffic in order to safe energy and have at least a little bit less light pollution). The red light and green light arrow indicate, that the general traffic light is red (so no going straight or left), but the green arrow allows traffic to turn right. Without the specific arrow light you wouldn't be allowed to turn right either. Also a reason you might be confused is, that traffic lights in Germany generally are on the side of an intersection from which you are approaching so you can see them from a greater distance while approaching the intersection. At 11:06 you once again comment on the white lines vs yellow lines. While I can see your point, in Germany the lines generally work as follows: yellow lines are temporary lines put up for construction work overwriting any white line. White lines are the standard lines. Also important to know: if the line is without breaks, you aren't allowed to cross it normally (though there are exceptions like the line where to stop at a stop sign, which can be crossed after checking there is no traffic). Broken up lines are allowed to be crossed, however they do not always indicate another lane, but rather that overtaking is allowed. So it is always safer to assume there might be oncoming traffic as long as you aren't sure. But since we have the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (driving on the right rule) you should drive as far right as possible anyway whenever you aren't overtaking somebody or want to take a left turn and there's a specified left turn lane. A special case can also be a double line with one side broken up. In that case only cars driving on the broken line side are allowed to overtake (and cross back into their lane afterwards) while the traffic on the side with the complete line isn't allowed to overtake. At 12:17 the right before left is in effect at any intersection without signs/traffic lights. Normally you find that in the smaller streets only. The rule says, that if you have a car coming from your right that car has the right of way. But for them the same rule applies. So if you also have a car coming from your front they will have to let that one pass first since it is coming from their right. If a car is coming from all four directions, the one reaching the intersection first is the first one to go, however a bit of common sense should be applied. That is quite unlikely to happen though since as I said the rule normally only is in effect on small streets with little traffic. At 12:44 the sunken curb is basically considered to be like a driveway even if it is a street. And as you can imagine merging into traffic from a driveway always requires you to wait for the traffic to pass. 17:00 You don't see the light because it is to the right front of the car and the camera has a limited viewing angle. The driver can see the light perfectly fine by just looking to the upper right corner of the windshield. 17:56 The lines in a crossing normally show you how to drive when you are on the main road and want to continue on the main road. Any other way you just have to imagine your lane yourself in most cases. 21:30 The green arrow sign is telling you, that even though you have a red light, you are allowed to turn right as long as you aren't disturbing the traffic on the crossing street. Otherwise you aren't allowed to turn right during a red light like I know some American states allow you to do. 24:10 He is correct about it being illegal, but keep in mind he is a driving instructor teaching you the correct way. In daily life you will see people do that all the time because as you said: he was gone before you arrived, so no harm done. I would even claim police cars would do the same.
About 24:10 totally agree. But you can see the red car not ending up on the right lane, so he skipped the crossing a bit and maybe really should have waited to reach the correct lane. But yeah. Nothing to really worry about
Two things: The "Schnellstraße" at the beginning also has the advantage that the speed limit is also way higher than on a normal street. (I thought it was 120 km/h but internet says it's like on the autobahn) Also traffic lights in Germany are not PERFECTLY visible. It is often kind of a strech to get to see the traffic light. That's in my opinion an advantage of the American design. Everything else, I totally agree.
@@fettpiek Schnellstraße is 120 km/h if traffic directions are isolated from each other (Kraftfahrstraße). The only exception is when the signs are blue instead of yellow. The only case I know is the B28 which is technically not an Autobahn but is treated as such (blue signs, isolated directions etc.) and so there is no speed limit on it (same rules as Autobahn).
@@xdevs23 So I just looked deeper in it and I think you're wrong. § 3 (3) 2c. of the german StVO states: "[F]ür Personenkraftwagen sowie für andere Kraftfahrzeuge mit einer zulässigen Gesamtmasse bis 3,5 t, 100 km/h. Diese Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkung gilt nicht auf Autobahnen sowie auf anderen Straßen mit Fahrbahnen für eine Richtung, die durch Mittelstreifen oder sonstige bauliche Einrichtungen getrennt sind.", meaning outside the city it's 100km/h but this doesn't take effect for any Autobahn or Autobahn resembling road with a divider for both directions. So theoretically it doesn't even have to be a Kraftfahrstraße but those kind of roads mostly are. (Didn't know this fact before).
I'm not sure what the deal is in Germany, but in the UK, if you see a speed limit in a sign with a red circle round it, that's a mandatory limit and can be enforced - but if there's a rectangular plate that says "max speed 40" accompanying a bend or other warning sign then that is just advisory (and they are usually set very conservatively). In Spain, it felt like a complete mess, with no clear indication whether a speed limit was just for a particular hazard or whether it extended beyond, which got very confusing! 5:25, in much of Europe, the blue car symbol means motorway or expressway, so the crossed-out blue car symbol means end of motorway or expressway. There are various traffic laws that only apply on those classes of road, so it's easier to have a symbol for it than to spell them out in full each time. 6:20, sometimes you might find a combination of red and green arrows pointing in different directions, but in general a red light with a green arrow means "stop except if you're going in the direction of the arrow" 11:15, agreed that having a different colour line separating opposing traffic could be an improvement. That said, I can't remember any time when I've driven onto the wrong side of the road because I've got confused about which lanes are which, it's usually a lot easier to tell in context when you're there than when you're watching on a screen. 13:50, it's very common in Europe to have two-way roads that aren't wide enough for two cars to pass if there are parked vehicles, so if the parked vehicle is on your side then you have to wait for any traffic coming the other way to pass. 24:20, I think the problem was that the red car cut the corner, and so was driving on the wrong side of the road - in the UK, that wouldn't be illegal, but you would certainly be at fault if you caused an accident in doing so.
00:28:15 downhill is on manual gear easy set lower gear then engine (without steping on gas pedal) will naturaly breaking without need pushing break pedal or much less needed push breaks.
Sorry, I'm updating this entry but I have to stop the video from time to time. ;) Ausfahrt = exit :D He was driving on a Schnellstraße. I think the correct traanslation is express way. It's not the Autobahn. You are right about the green arrow and the red light. He is only allowed to turn right. The yield sign is only valid in case the traffic lights are off for some reason. And, of course, you should be careful and look to the left before you turn. And you should look for pedestrians and bycicles: some of them ignore the red light! That smaller light is not prompting you, but it's for pedestrians (and bycicles). And usually your light will turn green soon afterwards. Right-before-lef: If there are no traffic light or other sign indicating who has the right of way, the car/bycicle/pedestrian that is coming from the right is going first. If there is an intersection and all cars arrive at the same time, you should make eye-contact with the other drivers and grant them the right of way. You will find a solution. ;) In my over 20 years of driving I never had that. "Sunken curb" is a one to one translation. I assume there is a better one. But basically those intersections coming from houses, minor streets, supermarkets usually don't have priority. The vehicles on the main street go first. Billboards aren't as common as in the US. They find some in the cities or at the city limits. On the autobahn there are some but there are not for advertisement. Usually they are there to make you aware of dangerous situations or "don't text while driving". The bus is not really parked. There is a difference between parking and standing or waiting. If you park you usually shut off the engine, log the car and leave. If a vehicle is just standing or waiting the driver usually is inside. Induction loop: There are cables in the ground that recognize that a car is slowly rolling over them or stopping there. A signal is sent to the traffic light to grant you a green. If no cars are there, the traffic light will stay on red. Don't ask me about the technicla details. ;) EMO seems to be a company. At least that sign at 17:27 indicated that delivery trucks can enter at that intersection. There are cars that shut down the engine while you are stopping at a traffic light. To save gas. Advertisement for McDonalds... :D And on the left you have some billboards. That green arrow sign is basically like the green arrow light just without an off button. ;) I remember that there are "no turn on red" signs in the US. It's bascially the opposite. If you go slowly into the intersection, stop for the traffic coming from the left and the lane is free you just turn right. Green arrow was discussed and introduced when I was younger. As far as I remember its an East Germany invention. And mostly older people still don't like it. Ecological driving: You shift up to the next gear as soon as possible. And if you slow down, you try to roll as much as possible instead of hitting the brakes at the last moment. That illegal bycicle: It was fine crossing the street for going straight (green light) but then it turned to the left and crossing the other street as well. And there would have been a red light, definitely. The pedestrian crossing with the switched off traffic lights: There are button to push and then the traffic lights switch on and go to green for the pedestrian really fast. It's used at less frequently needed crossings and saves some power. I hope I covered everything. If you want to know anything... Will be here to watch your next video.
_"In my over 20 years of driving I never had that."_ I had this several times, but usually as a bicyclist: The solution is easy, just go first because all of the cars had stopped yet and the drivers don't know what to do.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer That was also my first thought when I read this for the first time. After a few streets, it was clear to me that this must have a different meaning.
Don't worry, you did your best, that counts. 👍 Germans have it easier, since we start learning signs since pirmary school for our bicycle test in 4th grade 🚲
learning the signs is also easier when you walk and ride with your parents and see all the signs all the time. and it also helps to have no text so that you can learn the most important and most common signs already when you can't read yet, long before starting school.
One of the main driving rules in Europe, is that if there are no signs in an intersection, the vehicle on the right has the priority to pass. That's why the white and yelow diamond sign is important or the inverted white and red triangle are important for drivers to know if they have priority to go or not.
24:30 The red car only got through the intersection in time because it turned into the wrong (oncoming) lane. There wouldn't have been the time for it to turn properly so it's illegal. 25:50 if we decided to go straight we'd have struck the cyclist. he most likely had a red light.
Your comment about the sign to Ausfahrt reminds me of when a couple of friends were visiting Paris and were travelling on the métro 🚇. The carriage was crowded and they were struggling to see through the windows, but as they pulled into a station, one of them glimpsed a sign on the platform and called out "We're just coming into Sortie, can you find it on the map?" _Sortie_ is the French for "exit"...
It was so much fun to notice what I don‘t notice anymore while driving, because I usually follow the signs automatically. Ryan, you would be a great driver in Germany, since you use your brain. I feel that‘s the most important thing here. Once you understand the rules, you almost don‘t need most of the signs.
It's so funny to me that he said the "no parking" signs seem to be The most common because for one, he's kind of right probably but at the same time I have never noticed how many of them there are. I just love getting a New view on stuff like that
8:10 It's so cool how fascinated you are with the yellow traffic light :D That's basically how every normal traffic light works in Germany (and I think in most other European countries too). Only the pedestrian traffic light switches from red directly to green, without any yellow light in between
Nope. Red and amber before green is not common all across Europe. (edit: Apparently many European countries do it this way but there are also many that don't.) In the Netherlands we have just red before green. The same in Belgium, France and Spain. I'm not sure of other countries. I saw a picture of a Swedish traffic light with both red and amber on so I assume they do it the same way as Germany.
@@Sirius_home Pressing the clutch and flipping into first gear really doesn't take more time than moving the right foot off of the brake over to the gas. This video actually made me look up the rules for "orange" traffic lights (red and yellow lit). Turns out I had been regularly commiting a misdemeanor carrying a 15€ fine by starting to roll over the stop line at orange lights. Never got in trouble for this, but I simply leaned this wrong. It is sadly too common here in germany for impatient people to freak out being the second car at a traffic light with you in first, and you don't start rolling before green actually comes on.
The yielding sign above the traffic light is what's valid is the traffic light is out of action or when the traffic light is turned off overnight. Turning right on red: normally not, only if you see one of those green arrow metal shields on the traffic light like in 20:58, but you of course have to stop first at the red light go slowly forwards and dont block any pedestrians bycicles or other cars while doing that! Parking there are 3 different parking "styles" in Germany either on the street nect to the corb, half on the curb and fully on the curb, little blue signs show you what one you have to do! And it's not a actuel test because the guy wouldn't tell him what to do!
17:00 The position of the traffic light increases safety because: 1. Prevents driving too far into the intersection. If you drive too far into the intersection, you will no longer see the traffic lights. 2. The right-turn lights are often positioned approximately where pedestrians might be (e.g. people with walking difficulties couldn't cross the street quickly enough). If the traffic light is on the other side of the street, you are probably not looking directly in front of you
And one additional thing. Having the traffic light on the other side only works if the crossing is rectangular. It would not work if there are more than 4 roads or they're at a flat angle.
THX...the FIRST one to explain why we have the traffic light in Germany as we do! Thank you, thank you, thank you......THAT is the argument and reason....
Apart from that (17:00), it is a legal thing. Signs and traffic lights provide rules for the piece of road right after them. It would be a legal issue if the light or a sign is further away, and still applies to a piece of road before it. In Serbia we do have traffic lights hanging in the middle of the crossroad or are on the pole on the other side of the crossroad, but these are just auxiliary lights. For better visibility. There are still the main ones that are on your side of the crossroad, and there is a line on the road that you are not supposed to cross if the light is red. That line is aligned with the traffic lights.
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@@Felix-st2ue Actually in the USA generally all intersections have traffic lights on the other side of the intersection - even when the crossing is not at a right angle or there are more than 4 roads. There is technology that can be used to make the signals visible only to the cars to whom they apply - in certain incoming roads or (turn) lanes. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#Programmable_visibility_signals
German here, my son had his practical just a few months ago, and we've been studying (that was a whole family activity) for that together. 1:16 It is a road sign. It says "You're leaving THIS Town (the one crossed out) and the NEXT Town is that many KM ahead". Meaning, the usual "50km/h Speedlimit has been lifted, and the speed limit 'Ausserorts' (outside of settlement) is 100km/h, unless otherwise specified by signs." So unless it's an Autobahn or a speed road like this one, the speed limit is 100km/h outside of any settlements or towns or cities. Autobahn and Speed roads with at least two lanes in each direction do not have a speed limit unless otherwise specified. 1:36 It is in fact a "Danger" or rather said "Attention!" sign. This one is meant for a bumpy road (Yeah, that happens when the street got fixed or because of the road conditions here too), or speed bumps ahead. 2:29 Ausfahrt only means exit *lol* 3:16 Digital signs are indeed getting installed more, for the simple convenience of not having to manually put up and tape off signs, in case of construction sites, traffic jams, lanes closed, accidents ... 3:39 The blue sign in question is pointing to a parking lot, usually with restrooms attached. If you look ahead, you can see a larger yellowish orange Sign. This sign tells you where the next exits are, which cities are along this road and so on. On this sign, at the top, there is a smaller one. (Not the two on the very top). That one is blue, and has a road with a bridge over it. This indicates "Autobahn". Meaning, you follow this speed road, you'll reach the autobahn. Autobahn has those signs in blue instead of yellow. That's how you see if you're on a "Autobahn-Alike" (Namely speed roads) or on an Autobahn itself. 4:37 Those speed limits are enforced, yes. 5:23 Actually, this sign indicates the speed road you've been traveling on stops here. Meaning smaller vehicles like bikes, tractors and rollers are allowed on the road you're following now, which before, on the speed road, they have not been allowed. 6:12 Those are lane based lights. Basically, the basic traffic light is for the lane that goes straight ahead. The arrow is for, in this case, those who would turn right. If you didn't have an arrow, the basic traffic light would be for all the lanes. (You sometimes have more than one traffic light, even if it just goes straight ahead. The one on top that shows the people that come from behind that it's go or no go, so they can prepare, and the smaller one more on 'eyelevel' is meant for the people that are standing right in front of the crossing, so they can see the traffic light too) If there are signs at the traffic lights, they are to regulate traffic should the lights not work. It's "Lights, then signs, then left before right". 8:24 basically, yes. Means, you can restart your car, start shifting into first gear, but you're not allowed to drive yet, and then green. 10:34 If pedestrians get green light at the same time you might drive, there'll be a yellow flashing sign on the traffic light. If you look closely at 10:38, you can see the red light for pedestrians, and there is a black box hanging beside that. There will be the yellow flashing light, if the pedestrians have green while you do. You have to yield for pedestrians. 11:33 that's what the street arrows and lines are for. They tell you "You're following this line." 13:12 "Sunken Curb" is exactly that. It means there is an exit or entry to a private property. Be it a shopping center parking lot like this, or a private road, or simply the driveway of a home. State property like parking lots for town halls, churches, whatnot, they also most often have sunken curbs. They do not have the right of way, since they're entering the 'public roadway' from a private driveway. HENCE the sunken curb, because it's not an 'official public roadway' 15:07 Outside of settlements, like on an Autobahn, advertisements and billboards are forbidden. You can put up billboards when you're in town, and there are some, but most are on the facade of a house facing your lane. And yes, as someone who has been to the USA, the amount of billboards there is just mindblowing... 16:38 basically, it tells the traffic light system "Someone's driving up to the traffic light. Please change accordingly". It's used for crossings with traffic lights, where there is one or two roads that aren't that busy that it would need a whole light cycle. Crude example, if there is no one driving onto that induction loop, that traffic light stays red, while the other much more busy streets' lights stay green. 17:01 'Your' light is in this case hidden from the camera by the mirror. It's the traffic light next to your car, basically. 18:31 It's a Start-Stop-Automatic. The newer cars literally turn off if you come to a stop (like at the traffic light), then turn back on once you tap the gas pedal to drive (it can vary, model to model). Unless you're manually turning off the car (with keys, fob, button). It's to reduce smog and gas consumption. 21:11 yeaaahhhh green arrow signs. That's something like the american way of "turn right on red". Same principle. No one comes your way, it's still red? you can turn right. Usually, you can NOT turn right on red. It's forbidden. 22:54 Yield to pedestrians, that's right. The yellow flashing light is a warning light for that, maybe because it's not well lit. 24:12 Illegal because he left the priority street, and took priority from 'us' who were staying on the priority road. As if you'd both go down a straight road, and they'd just pull into another road, right in front of you, crossing your lane. (Plus, the hero driving the red car was cutting the corner, driving on the wrong side of the road he pulled in. If he hadn't done that, he wouldn't have been 'out of the way' that quickly.) 26:15 Those are pedestrian activated lights. They hit a button, the lights turn on red, and you have to yield. So basically, this is a driving instructor and his student. This is practicing for the practical exam. WHILE the exam is running, the instructor is not allowed to give tips or tell the student what to do. The examiner sits in the passenger seat, and he and the instructor will do some small talk. THIS TOO is a test! To see if you can focus while others are talking/making noise/distractions. The instructor will give you vague requests like "Turn the next right/left, find a place to park, turn the car if possible." They WILL test you, if you check your surroundings, and see if you know IF you can actually turn left/right/into a street, and they WILL try to trap you. "Turn right if possible" and the next one right will be a one way street that you're not allowed to drive in from your side. Or ask you to park, and it's a no parking zone. Or ask you to turn your car around, and there's no suitable space to reverse. They'll also check if you buckle up, use the mirrors, ask question about traffic situations, tell you to "Speed up" when you're in a town and there are no speed signs in sight. They're tricky! All to check if you keep constant sight of your surroundings, are aware of the street signs, and other traffic. There's a reason that you usually have at LEAST 14 driving lessons (90minutes a lesson), and about 12 theoretical lessons, and why you need to pass the theoretical exam before the practical. Most people calculate about 3-6 months for their driving lessons (Of course, most 17-18 year olds are working or go to school, so there's about one theoretical and one practical lesson per week). And the usual price for all of that is around 2000€.
@@julonkrutor4649 That's because my son only needed the mandatory practical and theoretical driving lessons. If it was more, or if he flunked one of the tests, he would have paid at least 500 more. I got mine for actually 1800DM, so barely 900€. Back then.
@@skyure Ich mach das mal auf deutsch ... die 1.800 DM sind leider nicht 900€. Inflation ist eine Bit** ^^ Ansonsten - ich habe meinen Lappen 3 in 3 Anläufen gemacht. 2 mal in der Großstadt ... Beider male ist mir ein Radfahrer vors Auto gefahren - quer. Beide Male sagte selbst der Prüfer es sei nicht meine Schuld, aber der Fahrlehrer war schneller auf der Bremse (und ich war nervlich durch^^) Dann Kleinstadt und sofort bestanden ^^
@@julonkrutor4649 Inflation und all das, wären heutzutage, über 20 Jahre später, auch wieder fast 2000 Euro. Und ja, so Kleinigkeiten ruinieren einem den Führerschein.
@@skyure I had my Spanish one for 125.000 ptas. (around 650 €) and I only had to do 10 mandatory practical lessons. I got it at first try, like your son. Now is really pricey.
1:16 is a very important roadsign in germany called "Ortsschild! It sets the allowed spped from 50km/h up to 100km/h. And the revers side( to see in 5:15 ) is setting the speed down to 50km/h without any additional speed limit sign. You really need to know the meaning of this sign when you drive through germanys countryside.
6:55 The yield sign takes precedence in case the traffic lights are switched or if they failed due to technical issues. In Germany, at least on all multi-lane intersections, you will see traffic lights left, right, and above your lanes. The red light on the right says "Stop going ahead", while the green arrow allows to go and turn right only.
I can‘t tell how often I think "if Ryan would only read (more of) the comments, he‘d know this“ 😄 It was very satisfying, indeed, that this time he did, and that it actually helped. Hallelujah! 🎉
I am amazed by the number of times you are amazed about something so normal for us, followed by the sentence "we do not have that here in America". Things like default speeds, the well drawn map-like signs that give an overview of the crossroads ahead, and things like speed limits on exit ramps. In Germany, the default speed in cities and towns is 50 km/h, outside of towns it is 100 km/h and on the Autobahn (just German for highway, nothing special) the recommended speed is 130. You can recognize a town by the yellow signs having the name of the town on them, and you leave a town when you see the same sign but with the name crossed out. No speed signs necessary, you just automatically think 50 or 100 respectively. And one other aspect about speed that is shown throughout the whole video is the sense of speed, not the speed limit. If you drive on a narrow and twisty country road for example, in theory you can drive 100 km/h there. In practice, you have learned that that is not safe, so you drive sensibly, about 60-80 km/h maybe. Just automatically, don't just stare at speed limits. Yield signs above a traffic light are there for situations where the traffic light does not work. You gotta have a back-up.
@@salat True, but the concept of a default speed in the US differs from state to state, and everytime the speed limit changes, there will be a sign. The idea of just not posting a speed sign when a town ends is not possible in the US, and it is in Europe. At least not in Indiana where Ryan lives.
@@BlacksmithTWD In Germany, the maximum speed outside of towns and motorways has always been 100 km/h as far as I know. This speed limit varies from country to country; it is 80 km/h in The Netherlands for example, and 90 km/h in Slovenia. Just like the maximum speed on motorways, it is 120 km/h in Belgium, 130 km/h in France and 140 in Poland. The maximum speed in cities is 50 or 30 km/h (almost) everywhere in Europe, I know only Russia has 60 km/h.
@@darkknight8139 I guess I confused it with some other German traffic sign, not sure which, could be the 90 when wet sign or a 90 sign I came across on the german road I travel most oftly when going to Germany. The maximum speed in the Netherlands is slightly more comples, on car highways (autosnelwegen) it's 100 km/h during daytime and 130 otherwise, on car ways (autowegen) it's 100, other roads outside towns 80 (though often there is a further reduction to 60 indicated by a sign).
16:31 Induction Loop in fact is an electrical component integrated in the raoad (asphalt) in front of a traffic light. It is capable to detect whether there is a car (a certain amount of metal) ) holding above it to trigger the traffic light sequence at this intersection.
The yellow light comes together with the red light so that you can tell whether the traffic light will turn red or green next. if you only see a yellow light, you know for sure that the traffic light will turn red next and you should use your brake and not the accelerator.
1:13 That is a "Ortsschild". It will either show you what which city or town you're entering, at which point the speed limit is 50 km/h or in this case it shows you which city or town you're leaving (crossed out at the bottom) and which city or town follows this one and how far it is. This also indicates that the previous speed limit is now lifted. 1:33 You wouldn't have to worry too much. Just remember that an empty red-white triangle means "Yield". It's only upside down so it may be recognized from the back, 2:33 "Ausfahrt" is the German word for "Exit". That's an exit, not a city. 5:24 That sign indicates the end of a "Kraftfahrstraße", which Google Translate translates as motorway. 8:12 The traffic lights will start off red, then be red and yellow, then green and then yellow. This is done so you can easily see whether the light is turning green or red. The light will turn red and yellow only when all other traffic lights that are supposed to be red at that moment have been red for a few seconds so that any drivers still in the intersection may pass without danger. By the time you're light turns red and yellow, all other cars should be out/away/off (?) the intersection. This happens with every German traffic light that has three lights. 13:03 Basically, if it looks like someone just took the sidewalk and pushed it further into the ground to make it level with the road, it's a sunken curb. 14:45 Uhm... The car we're in is passing a load of trucks... Clearly showing.... that the street... can fit atleast two vehicles side by side with some space to spare? 21:50 Nope :)... unless there's a green arrow whether it be a sign or light 24:12 It seems you are having trouble understanding this situation and who has priority here so let me try to explain: First lets say we are on street A, to the right is street B, in front is street C and to the left is street D. Now as you can see we have the yellow sign giving us priority but so does the red car from D. We know this because of the sign underneath the priority sign, the white one with the three lines. This indicates a curved priority street where all drivers which are coming from the directions of the thick line have priority. But if both drivers from A and D wanted to go straight, they'd collide so who has to yield to who? Easy! You yield to the right! Here A is to the right of D so D (the red car) would have to yield to A (we). After that between B and C priority is again determined by yielding to the right. So if a car were to approach from all four directions and wanted to go straight or otherwise would have to go over the markings on the street the order is as follows: 1. A; has priority and is on the right of other priority streets 2. D; has priority and now doesn't have anyone on the right to yield to 3. C; all priority street cars are gone and you are to the right of someone 4. B; sucks to be you, no priority and the left doesn't have to yield to you because they have prority 25:50 The white car came from the other side of the instructer's car which would indicate that the pedestrian light is red there 26:12 It's a pedestrian traffic light. It only turns on if a pedestrian pushes the button on the pole and afterwards the traffic light turns off again.
Actually, the "Yield" sign has distinct upside down shape, because it must be visible even when its 50 years old and wind has sandblasted the paint off, or it got covered by snow. For this same reason STOP sign is a distinct octagon and priority road is a square balancing on corner. Being able to recognize sign from behind is never needed in normal driving (unless some joker turned the signs around, in that case, you have to slow down and drive very carefully)
24:12 I think he understands the concept of a curved priority street and was just confused that the driver said that the red cars turn was illegal because it looks like there was enough distance for the red car to make the turn. I also think the red car had enough time to turn because the pov car didnt had to break or let go of the gas because of the red car, only if the pov car was driving straight then the red car would be in the pov's way.
For priority, in general, once you've stopped, you've given up all priority. So even if you 're on the priority lane, once the car comes to a stop, other cars can go before it. Also, iI miss the green blinking in Germany.
9:00 in austria, we have green blinking too. essentially, at the end of the green phase, we get 3 times green blinking. it says: the traffic light is about to switch to yellow. think about it, if you can make it or not. great, if a crossing with green light is in the distance. you can determine if you can make it or not.
German here! 5:20 no that sign just means that you are no longer driving on the motorway. 6:15 a red light with a green arrow basically means you have to stop at the stop line (referring to the fat white line on which you should stop) then you have to make sure it is safe to proceed without endangering anyone who might be coming from any direction and THEN you can proceed to follow the green arrow. Sometimes the green arrow isn't even a traffic light like here, sometimes it is just a little black sign with a green arrow on it next to the red light. Also also, this "green arrow rule" isn't common all over germay, but where i come from you can see it very often. 6:43 in germany we have a rule for crossroads because sometimes the traffic lights stop working because of some sort of malfunction. The rule states that on crossroads the traffic can be regulated by the police by traffic lights by street signs and by "right before left" You have to follow these things in that order. Meaning if there is a police officer managing the traffic, you have to follow his instructions and can ignore all other options. If the traffic light is working, you have to follow it if there is no police managing traffic. If there is no police and the traffic lights don't work, you have to follow the signs. And if none of these things are present or working, you have to follow "right before left". I hope this makes sense, it's really hard to explain but it's very simple once you understand it. 8:23 yep you guessed it right! In germany the traffic lights turn from red to red and yellow to tell you that you can prepare yourself for it to turn green so you are ready to go. 12:22 right before left is only used if there are no traffic lights or signs or anything else that indicates you who goes first. And right before left is meant literally wich means that if someone is coming from my right side on a crossroad i have to let them pass. If nobody is on my right but somebody is on my left, i go first because i am on their right. 15:41 well the signs and traffic lights are supposed to keep the traffic flowing and to avoid car accidents in areas where many people drive through every day. But on this street you can see that there isn't much traffic and it looks like it's an industrial area so there drivers should mostly use the right before left method. Same goes for the lane lines. 16:38 an induction loop is a sensor that is built into the road and you have to drive on or over it and the sensor sends a signal to the traffic light and the traffic lights then changes to green so you can go. This is used mostly on crossroads where one lane is used often and others are used less. 17:05 see in germany the traffic lights are placed very differently than the US. In germany, the traffic lights are most of the time directly next to the stop line where you stop your car right in front of the crossroad. Yeah sometimes it is hard to see them and speaking for myself i am a small female, i often have to lean forwards or backwards to see the lights. 17:15 it's not only hanging over the car, there is always a second traffic light on the right side of the other one just a little bit lower. I guess that the higher hanging lights are for truck and bus drivers since they usually sit higher that the average car driver. 19:50 that is a very popular marketing technique in germany. Many companies use these tiny trailers for advertising. I don't know why but it is very common here. And no there is usually nothing in these things. It's just for show. 20:20 yep thats the sign for the priority street which means that every car on any street that crosses this street has to let us go first. 22:53 yes you absolutely have to yield to the pedestrian on a "zebrastreifen". Many germans are extreme jerks when it comes to this because the rule states that pedestrians can cross the street on a "zebrastreifen" freely by WALKING. But many cyclists are very rude and don't even stop to get off their bikes, they just cross the rode via bike and that's very dangerous. Usually as a cyclist who wants to use a "zebrastreifen" they would have to stop and get off their bike and THEN they can freely cross the road. I once nearly crashed into a boy on a bike who was probably in elementary school because of his ignorance to this rule because i simply couldn't see him coming. 23:16 there is actually a sign and a rule for parking halfway onto curbs in germany so it is very common to see. 25:50 the bicycle crossed the road twice, the first time he had a green light but the second time he crossed the road he surely had read. AND he is using the sidewalk to ride on. Both things are illegal in germany. 26:15 that is a traffic light specifically made to help pedestrians to cross the road. If a pedestrian would want to cross the road they would push a button on the streetlight and after a few seconds the streetlights would turn on and quickly switch from green to red so the pedestrians can safely cross the road. Many traffic lights in germany have those buttons to make street crossing safer and easier for pedestrians. 28:42 the lights are only relevant for the lanes they are each hanging over or besides. So we are on the right lane to go right so our light is red indicated by the right red light and the hanging red light. The lane that continues forward currently has a green light hanging over it and one green light to the left of them. I hope everything i explained makes sense, i'm driving my car minimum 90 minutes a day so i guess i know what I'm talking about. But honestly most germans don't know everything because we have so many signs and rules and exceptions to rules that it can get confusing very quickly so i can't guarantee. 😂
No, the bike originally came from the same direction as us and turned left. There was a green light from our direction. It only looked illegal because the cyclist made what is called an “indirektes Linksabbiegen” (indirect left turn).
6:56 - The row of the rules is: police officer, then traffic lights, then traffic signs, then right before left. So in this case the yield sign does only apply, if the traffic lights are out of order.
Induction loop is indeed an electro-technical term. It's a coil that detects if there is a car at the red light, so that the lights are set automatically to whatever it is set to do.
And in case a car is detected, immediately check all other directions for the absence of conflicting traffic and give you a green as fast as possible. It's to avoid leaving you waiting due to fixed-phase timing when there's literally no one else you would have to wait for.
21:53 Yes you can turn right on red, with the digital green arrow like da traffic light one. You can also turn right on red if you have the green arrow sign. If that's the case you have to YIELD to traffic from the left tho
The rectangle yellow sign with the red line inside it means "end of the city/town/village". Now traffic rules for rural areas apply, the most important one of them is that speed limit of 50 km/h is over. (km/h = kilometers per hour) The top part without the line shows you the name and way to the next city/town/village, in most cases the arrow shows the direction straight forward (but I think I have also seen arrows for right/left turn yet).
18:22 Some cars have a function where they automatically turn off the motor when you are standing, shifted into neutral and have the break pedal pushed down. As soon as you let go of the break pedal the motor will automatically start and you can continue driving.
Not quite. VW turn the engine off when in neutral and you let go off the clutch. The brake pedal has nothing to do with it. That would only the case with automatic transmission probably. The engine starts up when you press the clutch pedal down to shift into gear.
The electronic speed signs are pretty useful. They would display the typical 100 or 120 kph, but can be changed. For example in case of weather when there is an accident ahead. And yes, while there are parts of the Autobahn with no speed limit (but a recommended 130 kph), the rest has a 100 or 120 kph limit.
As a German it's really great to see you reacting to something that seems so obvious to me - although if you start to think about it it's REALLY confusing. Like yeah, all the markings on the street show if you're on a priority street, because if they cross you have to yield. Also with no markings or a yield-sign it's always "right before left" - which does not apply on a lowered curb and ALSO not, if the street on the right is a "Spielstraße", play street with low traffic. And the yield signs on top of traffic lights are for the case they don't work, so you still now which rule applies. You can think of the upside down yield-sign as "Attention!" - so if you got this sign with a red, yellow and green circle in the middle it would mean "Attention, traffic light!". Oh, and some cars have an automatic start-stop, which turns off the engine at a full stop to save fuel - that's what you've heard when the traffic light turned to yellow. Yeah, it's easy when you've learned all that but REALLY confusing for anyone else.
0:52 - As a German I never really thought about it, but that's not an Autobahn-specific sign. You'll find those arrows all over the place. 1:13 - That's a sign that indicates that you leave a city or municipality and which city or municipality will follow afterward. 1:39 - Contrary to the yield sign, the "danger" sign usually shows what it warns of (uneven street in this case) 2:44 - Fun fact: Ecological driving is actually a real aspect of the driving test. They might fail you if you e.g. always drive in a too low gear. 3:30 - This is indeed not the Autobahn but not *because* it has a maximum speed. In fact, majority of the Autobahn has a speed limit. It's a "Kraftfahrstraße" which is kind of "one level below" the Autobahn. You easily see that you are on one due to the yellow signs contrary to the blue ones on the Autobahn. 4:30 - While those are enforceable and punishable, you probably won't see anyone driving 50 there. 5:14 - There you have the counterpart of the sign at 1:13. It tells you which city or municipality you're about to drive into. PLUS it also indicates that the speed limit is now 50 km/h because you're within a city. 5:40 - Not only that, it tells you how many parking spots are still available on each lot. 6:26 - Yes you are allowed to turn right. And as it's a green arrow and not just a green circle, it also indicates that there's no traffic from other directions you might need to yield to. The other red lights are valid for the whole intersection: For turning left, right and going straight. And the green arrow overrides that as the more-specific traffic light for a single direction. 6:40 - In fact way too many German driver's license holders don't get it as well which is quite annoying hahaha. Signs on top of (or below) traffic lights that indicate that you either have to yield or the way of right ONLY (and I mean ONLY) apply when the traffic light is off (either completely off or the middle yellow-light is blinking). 6:54 - Yes. Yes. No (because the traffic light isn't shut off, thus the sign has no meaning whatsoever). 7:47 - There are two versions of this. One with two red lines through it (like an X) which means no parking and not even stopping for a short time. And there's one version with just one red line through which means no parking but stopping for < 5 minutes for the sake of loading/unloading is permitted. 8:20 - Yep. The reason for that is pretty simple. If you'd just see a yellow light you wouldn't know whether the traffic light is about to turn red or green. By indicating red + yellow it shows you that it was red and it's about to show green. When it's green and goes to red, only the yellow light is shown (no green + yellow). So you always know which comes next and can react properly. 9:20 - Yes, but only those with three lights. There might be traffic lights with only two lights (green and red) that are shut off if they are not required. Those are usually for pedestrians. 13:33 - It's a street that comes from the right. So you have to yield for cars coming from there. But they can't really see in there, so you need to slow down (sometimes even first gear) and creep into that intersection to ensure no one is coming from there. Because cars that would come from that street know that they have the way of right and sometimes they just blast into the intersection without even looking. And while that's not good as well, it's your responsibility to ensure that you don't fail to yield there. 18:30 - That's a stupid EU-thing where they dictated us to have something called Start-Stop-Automatic. If you leave your gear selection in neutral and step from the clutch, the engine shuts off and re-starts once you press the clutch again. Minimal effect for maximal wear and tear. However, it's not specific to manual cars. Automatic cars do that as well here. You can turn it off but you need to do it every time you start up the car. Really annoying. 19:48 - Here's another fun fact. You noticed that we don't have many billboards which is correct. Companies found another cool trick to advertise their services in a cheap way. They just get a trailer, put some ads on them and then just park those trailers around their businesses. Trailer can remain parked for free for 14 days before they need to be relocated. Then you just attach it to a car, drive 50 m down the road or around the block and park it again. Profit. Free advertisement space. 20:30 - Yes but then we'd have either a stop or a yield sign. The more common scenario would be that there's no priority (right of way) at all and it's just left before right. Either way, the car on the right would have the right to go first in those cases. 21:01 - Don't worry if that's confusing. It's a very rare sign in the west, more common in east Germany. I'd guess 80% of the German population don't know how to PROPERLY handle it. 21:59 - 100 of 100 points. You basically just passed you citizenship test ;-) 22:33 - Yes it is 22:52 - You assume right, you need to be ready to stop and yield to the pedestrians at any time 24:30 - It happens all the time. However, the red car crossed "our" lane in order to turn left into that street there and if it's a close call or you make the other car break/stop accelerating you will definitely get honked at. 25:28 - It's not an actual test. In a real test, you'd have your driving instructor sitting next to you and the official that conducts the test would be sitting in the back. And they only tell you what to do in German (Turn left at the next possibility, parallel park you car here, whatever). That's all you will hear from them. I guess it's more like a test simulation for a drivers license holder from a foreign country where the instructor is preparing him for the test. 26:12 - This is the kind of traffic light I talked about at the 9:20 mark. It only turns on when a pedestrian specifically requests to cross the street. 29:00 - You'll find both and they both mean the same. 31:08 - Especially in bigger cities there were many incidents in the past where cyclist were killed (!) due to a suddenly opened car door. Those are extremely sturdy and you can imagine what happens if you blast with 30-40 km/h into that door with your bike.
@@kurzwaslernen2843If you go 30 with a bike where 50 is allowed, you are the one to blame, fascinating. Geh' mal kurz was lernen und sag' Bescheid, wenn du rausgefunden hast, dass das Unsinn ist.
The sunken curb also here in the Netherland implicates an "exit" (uitrit) construction. And as you know, when you go from your private land onto a road, you also have to give all other traffic the right of way. Here in NL there are many sunken curbs. It also is then when a side walk bou dry does not end, it has the same rule as the sunken curbs.
@@manloeste5555 now you mean San Marino 🇸🇲....😋 But indeed 2 hours from west to east and about 4 from north to south. 100 km/h between 6 and 19h and on many places 130 km/h between 19 and 6h. And wayyyyy better roads then in Germany, Belgium or Great Britain.
14:00 we had in Germany some railway rails for connecting different factories. Some of these freight trains used also streetcar rails. In Berlin where I live, we had this kind in Schöneweide and Weissensee, there was much industry, that needed freight trains. Meanwhile we have abandoned level crossings. In the Hannover video you may notice the railway and that the factory railway have connections to the regular railway.
23:15 if you look closely to the blue P (allowed to park) signs every 3 seconds, you will notice the tiny white attachment below the P, it has the drawing of a car with one half on top of a curb... so this is how you must park here. Some times that tiny white attachment below the blue P indicates 45 degrees angled parking, and so on.
18:14 the sound of the car is the engine starting. It's the start-and-stop feature (mandatory in all new european cars): when the car is still and the gear is in neutral, the engine stops. When the light is red and yellow, you push the shift pedal to engage the first gear, this pushing on the shift pedal makes the engine restart automatically.
3:16 digital signs are quite common on major highways and also the autobahn in Germany. One goal ist to slow down traffic when traffic density increases. This reduces possibly dangerous situations that would arise when fast cars approach queues from behind, and it also may avoid the formation of traffic jams.
Congratulations on your channel, Ryan. Youre a nice guy to sit and watch a video with. Already 80k subscribers, incredible how much your channel has grown. I've been here since the beginning, and its crazy to see that soon you will be at 100k! Keep up the great work and best wishes from the Netherlands as always. :)
18:21 it's the stop and start feature, when you are at stop whatever reason and you are on neutral, the engine stop automatically, when you apply to the clutch pedal, it's start the motor again without any other action from your part.
the last thing shown in this video is realy important, it's the so called "dutch reach". it prevents accidents and saves lifes. as byciclist, i am always thankful watching cardrivers and passengers (!) perform this move, and always say thank you when passing them by. traffic participants get huge awareness through that technique!
maybe im a bit to young so im just used to it when growing up, but it seems crzy to me that u would try to leave your car any other way like what the heck do some people think? u just open that door and step right on the street without checking for anything?? thats so insane to me
@@saschaberger7201 Thanks for beeing aware of the traffic around you. But sadly, opening doors without checking causes still way too many crashes and injuries. that's why this technique should be the gold-standard and mandatory to every driver and passenger. Greetings to you, Sascha!
At 5:28 it doesn't mean "no cars allowed", it just indicates the end of "Kraftfahrstraße" (highway/motor way), meaning you're on a "normal street" again ... and in this case inside a town (as indicated by the yellow rectangle sign with the name of the town on it) with the speed limit of 50. And yes the yellow light on a traffic light means it will turn green shortly. It works the other way around too ... if it's green and turns to yellow you will know the traffic light will turn red shortly after that.
"Ausfahrt" is German for "Exit". 🤣🤣 Every intersection, etc. that has traffic lights also have signs in case the lights fail. The sequence of the traffic light is red - red/yellow - green - yellow - red for cars. The small ones for pedestrians only have red and yellow, except in Dusseldorf, they have a yellow as well. We call the yellow diamond a "Spiegelei" (fried egg)
21:45 that's exactly it! You aren't allowed to turn right on red traffic lights at all - with the only execption if there is this small sign next to the traffic light with the green arrow to the right on it. And you don't see that too often. You pointed out that one perfectly 🙂
Important thing many people, even in Germany miss: The green metal arrow while the stoplight is red means you have to stop, like at a stop sign only after you have stopped you are allowed to drive right carefully if you don't obstruct anyone.
6:48 The green arrow is pointing right so it's for the cars turning right. The red light next to it is for the cars going straight and thats either an arrow or a circle. The yield sign above the light is for when the lights are not working.
26:20 you have to push a button to activate the traffic lights as a pedestrian. Also the bike just before that crossed the intersection from right to left and there was a traffic light he ignored
16:36 induction loops or other methods to detect vehicles waiting at a red light (like video detection) are pretty common. If you don't stay at the right spot you maybe wait you entire life for the traffic light to turn green😉 because if the Detectors doesn't detect a vehicle the mainroad will always stay green.
Have you ever watch "Not just bikes" "Why the dutch wait less at traffic lights"? we have intelligent traffic light systems, with a lot of loops in the road (or bike paths) up to 3 loops and up to 50 meter before the traffic lights m.ruclips.net/video/knbVWXzL4-4/видео.html
A T-intersection I was driving regularly got a traffic light with induction loops added a while ago. The first time I was also in "first place" for waiting on the light ,I didn't know, and worse, there were still some signs of the construction works left on the boardwalk so I intentionally stopped a bit earlier than I might have otherwise, and I waited forever, until another driver got out and told me to drive further up to trigger the induction loop. I felt a bit stupid, obviously. But I wasn't the first or the last to make that mistake, but by now it seems drivers have gotten accustomed to it. (I think they might have also added a sign to remind people to drive up to the road marking.) Aside from the emberassing moments, the new traffic light has really improved the route, though. Before, you sometimes had to find forever to find a gap in traffic, particularly if you wanted to turn left.
@@DanielRMueller yeah i understand what you mean but we have a "Haltelinie" / Stopongline and you should stop at the Line not before or after because the detectors are configured to detect vehicles standing there not a Kilometer away😜 In my City we have some old traffic lights with the sign but most of them don't get a sign because it is common. But sometimes i have seen some people wait far away and they don't get green because they are to far away... If you are driving a motorbike you maybe can get some trouble with some of the Detectors. Because the small size and light weight they often don't trigger the Detector even if they are well standing. If it is not perfect you will wait a long long time
timecode 31:00 - the dutch reach - opening the door with the right hand forces you to look through the side window. Not known to older drivers. dooring is serious problem to cyclists in cities.
I almost doored a cyclist - nay, prick on a bike - once, even though I did the diligent checks before opening my door. It was because I could not see him coming, as he was riding in the dark with NO lights, then he had the nerve to look back at me as if it was my fault! We need more police on the streets.
9:28 That sign means "Halteverbot" so parking under 5 min not allowed there is neraly the same sighn bun only on time crossed that means parking not allowed so you can park there as long you dont block traffic and stay there under 5 min
A sheet metal green right arrow is even in Germany a bit "new". Its a leftover from East Germany and got taken over after reunion. An illuminted green arrow means you can go ahead and don't have to look for anyone crossing, not illuminated green arrow sheet metal sign means you have to stop for the red light, but can go ahead if no one is coming from the left. (@ 20:58) So, @ 21:58: yes, absolutely right.
6:53 Lights take precidence over street signs. The yield sign is for when the light is off (during the night or when it's broken or whatever). In the US you're generally allowed to turn right when red with yielding, unless indicated otherise ("No turn on red"), in germany you're not, unless a green arrow allows you to do that. If the green arrow is a sign, then it's like in the US. you can turn but you have to give way. If it's a light, you don't need to yield, you can just go.
the line at the end (how to get out) referred to using the sam hand as used to change gear to open the door. So you reach from the opposite side of your body from the door. This is taught as it tends to turn your shoulders towards the door so you may see into the blind spot, and makes it less likely you will open the door into the path of a bike or passing vehicle, but also the door won't be flung wide in one move. In the UK this method is called the "Dutch reach". As you might expect, the Dutch don't call it that!
but it is invented in The Netherlands. There too many accidents car drivers open their door and hitting an approaching bicycle. Using our right hand (your left), force you to look in the mirror and at the dead corner before opening the door
The Billboard thing is for the most part heavily restricted by traffic safety laws, as they could be too distracting and such, sometimes it happens that one is approved by the authorities but later deemed unsafe by the police and taken back down again, so it's not always working so well, especially with animated billboards these days, one was approved a while back and ended up causing an accident... i do know one that still stands even though it's quite distracting since it is for a xxxclub... 😅
18:12 in Germany we have Start-Stop Automatic in the cars. So your car truns off when you waiting at a traffic light for example and it turns back on when you try to go on again. So you basicly heared the car starting.
That diagram at 5:44 is for parking spaces for Messegelände Hannover, a big exhibition centre that hosts various events, IAA and Agritechnica come to mind. That sign is to show people approaching from the south side after coming off of the B6 south and on to Kronsbergstr./Lissabonner Allee. If the person would have stayed on the B6 south, he could've either go of to the right and straight to stay on the B6, or right again at the clover leave intersection shortly after between the B6 and 443. The B443 east can take to to the A7, both north and South bound. If they would've gone center or left lane, they'd be on the A37 South which mergesinto the A7, but is only south bound. Also, at the off ramp they took, turning right would've led you to the Blue and Yellow Swedish Lego furniture store that 1/3 of Germans only visit for the food.
Hi Ryan, it is a basic rule that traffic lights or illuminated signs always have priority and simple signs are then used when the traffic lights are out. Another rule is that traffic should flow as best as possible and as long as you are going straight and you have green lights you do not have to stop (there is actually often a synchronization of multiple traffic lights after each other so that you can keep exactly at the speed limit, which is called a green wave). A synchronization of all traffic lights at an intersection is also happening, so that you also don't have to stop at traffic lights with arrows in it because you it is clear that pedestrians and cars from ahead have red. All that only works if you don't have the American turn right on red rule, which was the default rule in Germany for many years. However, the former GDR had the turn right on rule for some intersection which was indicated with the green arrow sign at traffic lights (the one that he didn't like because he was not used to it since the driver was from the non - GDR Part). As I said, keeping the traffic flowing is one of the main is the main idea we have the priority street signs (yellow on white diamonds)and yield signs. If you are in a priority lane you can be sure that all neighboring streets have yield signs, some even have stop signs. However, stop signs are only at dangerous intersections, in all other you have yield signs, which means you don't have to actually stop but to approach slower and to observe the traffic in a why that you do not disturb the flow. If no one is there or you can see quite far enough you just can go. A second principle is right before left which is applied all the time where there is no sign or the priority lane is turning. If you are leaving the priority lane, e.g. straight ahead, you have are in first position if the priority lane turns left and you are in the second position if the priority turns right because someone comes from right from a priority lane. For the other ones it is the same. It's easy if you have it a couple of times. Another big difference is that we (all over Europe) try to use words as little as possible since people with many different native languages use our roads. Therefore, we try to symbolize stuff as much as possible. The 180 degree turned yield sign means "attention" and the there is something symbolized in there, e.g. bumpy road ahead or train tracks ahead. Regarding the bill boards, yes we have way less of them since they are distracting. You mostly find them in the cities and then at intersection where people might be stopping not at the Autobahn. Imagine you are driving 230kph (which is not that rare, at least for me ;) )and there are huge billboards everywhere like in the US. You should focus in the traffic and not the best lawyer to get rid of your wife. As someone who is regularly driving in many different countries in Europe, North America (i.e. US, CAN, MEX) or Asia, I can tell you that Germany has very thought through traffic rules and you need some knowledge about the basic ideas and rules before driving, therefore we have the rigid driving schools, however otherwise the system and the speeds we are driving wouldn't work with so little accidents and deaths (btw way less than in the us per Capita) and that traffic density and flow. Driving in the US is imho opinion is way more relaxed due to the wider streets, the long distances and the slow speeds, however sometimes even boring, so maybe it is Americans way of endless billboards and sometimes messy and countless street signs to make it not so boring. just kidding. Keep my fingers crossed that at some time in the future you can experience driving in Germany as well. It's not that bad but if you are not used to it you have to be more attentive.
21:55 in general, you're not allowed to turn right if the stoplight is red. If there is a sign with a green arrow on it, that basically means "turn right at your own risk if the way is clear", whereas an arrow-shaped green stoplight means "you may go, there is no crossing traffic". The sign is a recommendation, the arrow-shaped traffic light that we saw earlier gives you permission and guarantees the way is clear. The green arrow *sign* is more like a yield sign for right turns only.
Your vibe is great man! watched through both parts while editing (German driver here) One further thing you might have misunderstood is the so called "Rechtsfahrgebot" = "Right-hand side driving requirement" you always have to assume there will be traffic coming from the opposite direction, so you always drive on the most rightern free lane (unless you are in a city needing to change to specific lanes ofc, and also on the Autobahn, 3 lanes? All are free? you MUST drive on the most rightern. Overtaking? Check mirrors, toggle indicator to the left, overtake, and indicator to the right, setting indicators is always required when changing lanes) If there is a white blue loooong sing with the Letters "Einbahnstraße" (Oneway) (ß= basically a "S") there will be no traffic from the opposite direction. So you always take your left turns to the most rightern spot which are also usually indicated by diagonal round blue arrow sings but and half of the height that normal signs, usually ontop/infront of light polls or traffic islands. Additionally "Rechts vor Links" = "Right before Left" is the easy way to remember it, but at the lack of some information. It's ALSO "Rechtsabbieger vor Linksabbieger" which means: The one who turns right on a street or crossing will always have priority over the one turning left, for those usually cossing other lanes and therefore require to drive with caution, IF they have the same or no signs that is. Ranking of Instructions to follow: Police > Light signals > signs > "Rechts vor Links" ;) Remember this and you will get used to driving relatively relaxed here. Ofc there are other who either dont know or care about some rules. Hope you are having a lovely day! Thüss! ;)
How to get out.... very important, since there are often bycicles in the road. I had an nasty accident as a kid, being on my bycicle because of the driver not paying attention. And thanks for your videos! :) I really enjoy those. Greetings from Austria
8:34 As most cars in Germany are manual shift you usually use the time during yellow to get ready, meaning shifting from idle to first gear so you are good to go at green light. Edit: nevermind, you figured it out later yourself
ryan, in 6:30 you have to watch too the road arrows. One lane have an arrow pointing right. If you want to go to the right you have to change lanes and use the lane that permit go right and use the green traffic light. If you get on the other lane with the straight arrow, you have to stop because the traffic light is red and you are going to go straight.
at 6:45 here's how to decipher it: Regular lights indicate you can drive straight, but in case you want to turn you still have to yield for oncoming traffic, pedestrian crossings, cyclists, etc that you would otherwise turn into/obstruct. If you have an arrow, that is a priority indication, meaning if it's red, you are not allowed to turn in the direction of the arrow even if your lane has a general green light. If the arrow is green, you can turn and you will have priority while turning (meaning crossing will be red for pedestrians, cyclists, and oncoming traffic etc). So essentially, if you have a green arrow for the lane you're in, you can follow it without having to yield or look out for anyone (legally speaking. Ofc you should always check your surroundings even when you have legal priority). at 8:20 yes the yellow is an alert that the light is shifting. When it is about to be green, it will have both red and yellow active at the same time. This ensures you know the light is already red, meaning it can only turn green from here. In the opposite case, when the green turns off it goes to yellow alone, and then red alone. So if you only see yellow, then you know the next shift will be to red. If you see red+yellow, then next shift will be green. Fool proof system :) 11:25 you would never find such a wide one-way street anywhere in Europe, ever. That'd be 4+ lanes going same direction, that's even uncommon on highways. Doesn't exist in any urban area whatsoever. Also the small dividing spaces in between the two traffic directions are called "islands" and always indicate a separation of direction of lanes. These are illegal to cross/drive over. 13:15 on some residential roads there are no sunken curbs or other indicators of yield priority, and in those cases you must always give way to the person on your right. Most of the time it happens on far narrower roads than this one, in areas where it isn't always clear which road appears to have priority. 17:15 it's just the narrow FOV of the camera that doesn't catch the light. There are at least 2 visible lights for the driver to look at without having to change their driving posture (a legal requirement for traffic light construction). Simply just barely outside the camera view, but not outside the driver view. 18:25 that's a "start-stop" system. You can get it in both manual and automatic cars, where the engine will shut down temporarily when you come to a halt, and when you re-engage the accelerator or move the steering wheel, it restarts the engine. It's a general economic/environment feature on most cars made since 2010. 24:40 Red car is doing something illegal because even if you 'can' make it, you shouldn't risk it. If there is a car with priority approaching, you should give way. You can also see by the speed the red car has to carry, they have no time to clear their surroundings and blind spots, they even pass across into the opposite direction lane on the street they enter due to the narrow corner angle they're forced to use. I mean, it's not a major offense by any means, but it's still technically illegal as it ads unnecessary risk to an otherwise riskless situation. The system is made to have near-zero risk, so anything that is above near-zero risk, is considered a wrong move. 27:03 For manual users who have driven manual all their lives, it's really not anything noteworthy. It's like second nature, you don't feel anything from having to shift an extra gear or not :) The light shift indicator is simply useful for maintaining a consistent traffic flow which minimizes risk of traffic buildup, it saves fuel, and promotes fewer road hazards. 30:00 You'd be amazed how many people just open the door without looking first, or by only partially looking. They may spot a car, but miss a bicycle in their regular blind spot - or simply not look at all and just be focused on having their driving test done with. I've heard stories from my own instructor back in the day of how many students he'd had to fail over the years for simply failing a proper vehicle exit, the literal last thing on your test.. He'd always be so disappointed in them lol.
In germany, you can't turn right at a red light unless there is that arrow sign. In this case you must treat the red light like a stop sign - you must come to a complete stop before carefully proceeding to turn. The arrow lights are different, they are simply separate lights for a given direction, meaning all other lights are irrelevant to you.
This is correct but I'm not sure it's phrased in a way someone who doesn't know the system would understand so I'll try to say it simpler (no offense, OP): Arrow sign, made of metal: you stop, look at the traffic, and only turn when you are sure you will not interfere with anyone who currently has a green traffic light Green traffic light with the arrow shape: you can turn without stopping or looking at the traffic. (Obviously it's advisable to still make a short glance because other people can make mistakes, but you definitely have the right of way.) Notably, this only applies to right turns. For left turns, you sometimes have to watch the traffic coming from the other direction even though the arrow is a traffic light because you have to cross that lane and other people in that lane might drive straight ahead or turn into the same street as you. As they are turning right and you are turning left, they have priority and you need to wait them out. You can only ever turn left once you are sure you won't get in anybody's way. It's pretty easy to remember, though. Just remember: when you are turning left, you have no rights. The pun even works in both languages. (And yes, having to wait people from the opposite direction out sometimes means that exactly one car turning left actually makes it through the intersection while their light is green and everybody else has to wait another cycle.)
20:21 the yellow diamond means indeed that you have the right of way as you are on the priority street (Vorfahrtstraße). It will also tell you if you are within city limits (then the sign is placed in front of the street coming from the right) or out of the city (then it will be located behind the street on your right). The positioning of this sign also helps you to determine if the speed limit is likely to be 50 (within the city) or higher (outside of the city).
Could even be used as an indicator for lower Speed limits within the city because if it's not there, there's a pretty big chance you're in a 30 zone. Almost no other part of a city uses "right before left" instead of traffic signs.
about yield sign over trafict light: In traffic control, a traffic regulator (e.g., a police officer) has the highest priority, followed by traffic lights, then traffic signs, and finally road markings. At around 18:50, the sound likely indicated that the engine started as the driver removed their foot from the brake pedal (istop function or so).
In case driving in a foreign country the first thing should be to learn what is the difference in given signs and signals. When I was a child, I got a book title "Peter and the cars" or something like that and there were pictures of traffic signs of many countries and I did learn them in my childhood. The idea behind was, that my parents did see me growing up and the day I would be on dangerous streets with my first bicycle was not far and they wanted me to know all traffic signs before. When I did visit USA first in my life and did know I would use a rental car there, I did learn the US traffic signs before...so the whole life is permanent learning, it is not forbidden to learn as an adult, and of course better than driving without knowing the signs. There is a speech in german language, I try to translate: Ignorance does not protect against punishment
While that is indeed the literal translation, I feel that "ignorance doesn't excempt from punishment" would be a better translation of what we Germans hear when someone uses this little saying ...
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Als jemand der in Ausfahrt lebt, freue ich mich mein vertrautes Stadtschild zu sehen.
Mit Abstand der am weitesten verbreitete Städtename in Deutschland :)
Da lebe ich auch! Hallo Nachbar!
Was ist dieses Rom? Alle Wege führen nach Ausfahrt 🤓
@@klarasee806ich komm von Auffahrt
wenn man es genau nimmtleben wir alle in Ausfahrt
Hands up, who lives in Ausfahrt 😂😂😂 I heard it is a beautiful place. Always wanted to go there.
I went there so often from the Autobahn, but I never arrived.
I am pretty sure "Ausfahrt" is a part of Bielefeld!
the moment when he thought "Ausfahrt" (exit in english) was a place 😅😅 that gave me the absolute edge, I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂 please someone have to make a clip out of this
Haha
I've had that problem once on Tenerife. I never found that damned village called Salida...@@steemlenn8797
It has branches everywhere.
The yield/stop/priority signs at the traffic lights only apply if the traffic lights are out of order. Or at smaller intersections, they may be switched off during the night.
signs
The priority in traffic in Europe is:
1. Police signals. That means that If a policeman waves you on you are supposed to ignore all other traffic restrictions and follow their lead!
2. Traffic lights (stoplights in the USA). A sign in a crossing is not valid unless the light is out of order or blinking yellow.
3. Traffic signs.
4. Right of way from the right!
Police>Traffic Lights>Signs>right before left
Commercial billboards along the roads are illegal in Germany! It’s only allowed if it gives valuable information to the traffic, like gas stations, restaurants and toilets.
They go around it sometimes by parking a trailer with a commercial message on it in a field of to the side.
The car has a start/stop system that turns the engine of when you stop. To keep millions of cars from idling without purpose.
When you let go of the break and touch the gas pedal it turns on again automatically.
It's actually some psychology having the traffic light on your own side of the intersection. By having it close to the car, you prevent the car from crossing the stop line (because you can't see the light that way). This is especially useful when there's a bicycle path or crosswalk in front of the traffic light that shouldn't be blocked
I assume it is also simply more convenient on smaller non standard crossroads to indicate which lights are which direction.
and you now wich traviclight is ment for you.
Now that makes sense as people in the west have a habit of sticking their nose into the intersection. That's the first time I've ever had anyone mention that.
It'd be really interesting to see you attempt the theoretical test, which you'd actually have to pass before being approved for taking the practical exam.
Or even the lessons!
nah most peope learn extensvely for a month, nobody can make that exam first try without any prep material or time. the attempt itself is extremely expensive.
@__-fi6xg There are free mock exams online, you know. Even in English.
@@__-fi6xg theoretical only costs 30€???
@@cristina9202 1200-1500 euros initial price, you have 6 month to finish it in that time frame, i think 12-15 hours are granted, each extra hour is 100€-250 € for driving practize. And each new attempt for the big exam also costs extra and has fixed dates since the examiner is operating outside the drivers school for the practical part of the test.
Haha I love that 2:38 😄 "Ausfahrt" means exit. So if you want to exit this part of the faster road (which is not the Autobahn) and go into the more city/rural area with slower speeds, you can do that there.
"Ausfahrt" the most common town name in Germany :D
I live in Ausfahrt, its everywhere.
Hahaha I get all the jokes now…
the moment when he thought "Ausfahrt" was a place 😅😅 I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂 please someone have to make a meme out of this
In the Netherlands the sign simply says "UIT" (Out) but Dutch also has the word "Uitvaart" meaning Funeral. So when Dutch see Ausfahrt, they think why are there so many funerals 😉
00:48 This is not the Autobahn, it is the Kraftfahrtstraße or Bundesstraße. The signs would be blue if it is one.That arrow you are pointing at is just a hint where you have to go, so you dont drive in the wrong lane
02:23 "Ausfahrt" means Exit
05:18 It means "End of Kraftfahrtstraße"
06:07 An arrow is an indicator that u can go and dont have to look out for other Cars, Bicycles or pedestrians (oh yeah, he says it later). Here u can go if u want to turn right but everyon else has to wait. If this arrow turns off, u have to wait too and the Signst only matter if the traffic is off. The Order is Police > Traffic > Signs > Right before left. So there is no Police and the traffic is on, so the Sign doesnt matter.
07:54 The Emos isnt a regular Sign. It's something like an ad or an interesting place to go.
08:03 You are right. If it is red and turning green, then red and yellow are on at the same time. If the traffic light is turning red, then only the yellow is on.
11:06 We have yellow lines if there is a change because of construction.
12:15 Right before left means that u are not allowed to go if someone is right to you
12:51 Yes you are right
16:31 U have an inducton loop under the street. The induction chanes when a car is standing on it so the traffic knows "Oh he here is a car, i have to turn green soon" otherwise the traffic would stay red
18:29 some cars have a feature that the motor turns off when u are standing still and have no gear active (neutral). So u need less gas and u are more economical. But there are also people that say u are harming the motor because it has to start often
20:11 that is the sign that u are on the priority street and the cars left and right have to wait (so you are rght here)
20:58 A green arrow sign means that u are allowed to turn right even if it is red but only if there is no other car coming from the left. So u can go right but dont have priority. Its different to a arrow light. You see the sign primarily in east-germany and not that often in west-germany
22:52 Yes. Pedestrians have priority on that "Zebra-Streifen"
23:10 That red-white-cross means that the tram/train has priority and the lightning inside means that its electrical powered
24:37 under the sign for priority street you have another sign. That means that the priority street is turning left and doesnt go straight forward. The cars which are following the priority lane have priority. The red car wanted to leave the priority street so he has to wait. Thats why it was illegal here. thats why the white lines on the street are turning left too.
30:50 You should open the right door with your right hand because you automatically turn yourself around and look for bicycles and other cars and you should open the left door with your left hand for the same reason.
I think that's all :D
Good job
Exactly opposite… open LEFTdoor ( driverside) with your RIGHThand… (upperbody than automatically turns )
Also wie die Autostrasse in der Schweiz? Keine Autobahn, aber Fahrräder, Ebikes sind nicht erlaubt.
@@mikey289cui Aka the "Dutch Reach"
@@Leenapanther Ja genau, beide Spuren sind baulich getrennt wie bei einer Autobahn und es sind mindestens 2 Spuren. Ich weiß nicht wie das in der Schweiz ist.
In Germany we don't use a stop sign all that often. We prefer the use of a yield sign because it is more efficient to keep trafic flowing. And often there is no sign at all which by default means you need to yield to traffic coming from your right.
Uk same very rare to see Stop.
Exactly the opposite in Greece, we really use the yield sing or the priority sign, to the point that many people have forgot what they mean...
you might say that "yield" is like a 'rolling stop' which americans seem to always do at real "stop" signs when no police can be seen :-)
in germany, "stop" signs are much more rare and usually used only at intersections where stopping completely really is important.
and instead of 4-way stops (which cause drivers to accelerate in front of such crossings to be first and thus cross first, and which also kind of "devaluate" real stop signs) we have the default rule "right before left" when there are no signs (right-of-way, yield, stop) for crossings with priority roads.
We have about an equal amount of yield and stop signs here in Schleswig-Holstein.
Don't forget that you have to fully stop the car for at least 2 seconds when there is a stop sign.
at 19:00 when the traffic light turns from red to red-yellow you hear the motor start. Modern cars often have a "start-stop-automatic" which turns off the motor to save fuel so its really practical to have the yellow light switch on additionally to the red light to announce green for exactly those things like switch to the first gear (which tells the car to start the motor again)
The yellow before the light turns green is especially nice for manual cars, as most will take the car of of gear when stopped and it gives you an indication to put the car back into gear so you are ready to go when the light turns green.
The sound you heard was actually the engine starting up. Most (if not all) newer manual cars shut down the engine when you put them in neutral and release the clutch. As soon as you push down the clutch pedal again, the engine starts and that's exactly what happened when the yellow light came on.
So in a manual it wont stop if you simply keep the clutch in for short waits?
My first car with this start/stop system was an automatic so it would shut of the engine after a second or two of standing still.
@@Gazer75 usually not, however I once had a rental Ford van that stopped the engine even if the clutch was held down. But any other manual car I've driven (and that had a start stop system) would only stop if the clutch is released.
Only the newer cars if they have "start and stop automatic"
@@onedudeontheinternet6185 depends on how you define "newer cars". I haven't had a car in 8 years that didn't have it.
@@WSandigI was about to comment that my 2003 built car doesn't have start stop.... yea
The yield sign above the traffic light is as a backup when the light isn't working or goes into yellow flashing mode (mostly at nighttime in rural areas)
perfectly true
06:40 The yield sign only applies if the traffic light is not in service. This might be because the traffic light is broken; on some intersections, the traffic lights are also turned of at night when there's very little traffic.
Generally at an intersection rules take the following priority over each other:
1. A police officer guiding the traffic
2. A traffic light
3. Signs
4. Right-before-left rule (If there's a car on the right from your point of view, you need to let it go first).
Hope this clarifies it! :)
And to clarify this for Ryan, the police officer guiding the traffic is technically the first priority, but that is not really a thing. I have never seen this in my life.
@@janos5555 However in my 25 years of driving i encounter this exactly 3 times. Last time i saw it, was in Munich at the a major intersection with a broken traffic light.
this is correct. police directing traffic superseeds any traffic light - any traffic light superseeds mounted signs above the traffic light - and if everything else fails, its the traffic sign that dictates what goes and what not.
@@janos5555 It only happens when there's a malfunction or an accident. So chances to encounter them are low. And I have no idea how many people would even understand the hand gestures beyond the most basic ones.
It was far more common in the GDR in like the 70s.
@@janos5555 I've only ever seen it in an emergency, when either there was an accident on the intersection, or when a road was closed, when a WW2 bomb was found.
Fun fact about opening the door with your right hand before exiting the car: It's also called "Dutch reach", as cyclists are so common in the Netherlands they came up with this system to reduce accidents
kinda funny as i was thought driving in the netherlands and i never had to do this "manoeuvre" XD btw i got al driving licensec and i littarely have never heard of this.. XD but heey you made me smarter today.. thnks for that :D
Nobody in the Netherlands does this or is teached this during driving lessons/exams. It is a concept that non dutch peoples came up with.
@@alcidesforever ik heb dit zeker wel geleerd. En je kan er op zakken.
@@wytze01 27-01-2022 (website: rij-instructie (.) nl
'IenW laat weten dat het het belangrijkste is om “gewoon” goed uit te kijken bij het openen van de autodeur. Volgens het ministerie kan de Nederlandse greep automobilisten helpen ongevallen door plotseling openslaande autoportieren te voorkomen, maar zijn er inmiddels ook auto’s op de markt waarbij de deurgreep zo ontworpen en geplaatst is dat de deur bij het toepassen van de greep lastiger te openen is. “Dat kan ertoe leiden dat je sneller vergeet goed uit te kijken, omdat je de aandacht nodig hebt om de deur te openen”, zegt IenW.
Het CBR laat in het artikel weten de Nederlandse greep niet te verplichten tijdens rijlessen en rijexamens. Volgens het CBR kan de Nederlandse greep wel helpen om medeverkeersdeelnemers te zien bij het uitstappen. “Daarom zijn er rijscholen die hun leerlingen deze methode aanleren”, zegt een woordvoerder.'
man I love the sight of flying cyclists in the morning
In Germany there is something like traffic sign override/priority. A traffic light overrides automatically any yield sign. Sometime traffic lights have yield signs anyway. Those take effect in case the traffic light is out of order.
First time driving in Germany with my 10 and 11 yr old kids, the signs "Ausfahrt" caused them great amusement (for obvious kids' humour reasons). It actually simply means "Exit", of course.
I don't understand the obvious Kids humour reasons🥲
@@melinaalba63 Fart humor.
I‘m not a kid anymore, but when in the right mood, it still makes me giggle 🤭
It's more funny for Dutch people, because it sounds like uitvaart (which means funeral).
Could be a fart from an Aussie aus well.
@@Rdlprmpf12 thats interesting, makes sence in a way. ausfahrt means "leaving this type of road" and you leave this world when you get burried at a funeral.
At 18:20 the noise you hear is the "start-stopp-automatik" it basically turns the engine off when you come to a stop to save fuel and when you want to accelerate it automatically turns the car back on. So what you heard was the engine starting :)
Edit: not exclusive to manual cars, a lot of automatics have it as well
what is intrigiung is he didn't know it indicating this feature is not prevalent in US cars. but isn't it?
the fact he doesnt know this is mindblowing..like the US is living in 2008 with their engines just going all the time at the traffic lights
I'm in Europe but my 2001 model car does not have this feature, neither did my previous 2014 model. Many modern Euro-spec cars do have this though, symbolized on the dash by the letter A in an arrowed circle.
@@nobbynobbynoobWhich i am switching off on every start.
Because it's annoying and i save nothing, basically.
@@embreis2257surely not outside california - indiana drivers don‘t use it too much 😉
18:30 It's called "Start/Stop-Automatic". The engine is automatically turned off, when you stay on the same spot for a certain period of time. It's automatically turned on, when you press the gas pedal. It saves some fuel, because the engine does not have to run, while you're waiting for the green light.
In case of manual transmission it would be a clutch pedal instead of gas
Most auto-stop automatics need you to be in drive with brake pressed, the engine comes back on when you release the brake not when you get on the gas.
Clarification for most manual cars with auto-stop-Start: being stopped, on brake, in neutral, with clutch pedal released is a trigger to stop the engine. Pressing the clutch pedal (in order to engage a gear) is the trigger to restart.
24:15 the only reason he got there ahead of the cam car was because he also cut the corner. If he had executed the turn properly it would not have worked out.
19:40 it's a loophole for the "no billboards on the streets" law. It's an ad on wheels and, since technically it's not a billboard, but a parked trailer, it does not require paperwork to be installed.
5:45 "Americans can only handle one arrow" 🤣🤣 LOL
I laughed so hard now, I'm sure I just woke up my neighbors!
😅👍
The green arrow sign next to the traffic light is an invention of former East Germany and after reunification we integrated it into the now reunified German traffic rules - more than 30 years ago! It allows "right turn on red" which is normally not allowed and the guy just doesn't like it because, contrary to the green arrow traffic light it doesn't mean you can just go without checking traffic from left. Which is probably perfectly normal for you.
It is really funny, that one of the few rules that confuses some germans, is the one rule that he got almost instantly right.
@@jakoblindner2356problem is, that there is the Lit up sign aswell as the plain arrow. I do like the Idea of the sign, but next to none drivers stop at the sign, cause theyll interpret it as a 'budget" or even 'permanent' Version of the lit up one.
i think the US has seperate signs for "right turn on red" and "right turn on red after complete stop"
also i'm pretty sure the driver in the video would have failed for stopping a the arrow... he is actively obstructing traffic
@@SoftSemtex, no not for stopping, that is necessary here! If regular light is red with this attached tin plate green arrow, you first have to stop, then ensure it is free and then are allowed to turn right while still having red light. Important thing to know, if you ever meet one of this. In my region, this is very rarely used, I just know one traffic light with this.
I feel like Germany is still divided
A general rule of thumb for the signs is: round blue signs tell you what is allowed (e.g. 0:55 tells you to drive on that side of the island) while red signs are warnings or yield signs. Triangular signs with a tip on the top are normally warning signs and if the tip is on the bottom it is a yield sign.
Yellow signs are generally informative signs that have an impact on the way you drive.
So the sign at 1:14 is telling you which city you are leaving (because of the diagonal line). If you would enter one (no line through it, otherwise the same), that sign would indicate a speed limit of 50km/h which is the default speed limit inside cities, towns and villages. So exiting that area removes that default speed limit.
In the last video you were confused about all the priority streets. The yellow diamond shaped sign with white border is telling you that you are on the priority street at this intersection. Bicycle lanes also being a priority street confused you as well, so for clarification: the whole street, not just the pavement where cars drive are considered the priority street. So that includes bicycles and pedestrians.
At 2:27 "Ausfahrt" just translates to "exit".
Also, the street entered in the beginning of the video is a Schnellstraße/Schnellweg, which is basically a slower version of the Autobahn. They are indicated by a blue sign with the white front of a car inside. The main advantage of those roads is, that they have exit ramps and no traffic lights like an Autobahn. An Autobahn sign is a blue sign with a white triangular looking road, implying perspective (so the tip is on the top). But as you know the Autobahn has speed limits in some areas too (especially near cities) to prevent to much noise and for safety reasons like construction sites, merging lanes and so on.
At 6:30 the yield sign above a traffic light is there just in case the traffic light is broken or switched off (which is commonly done during night time when there is less traffic in order to safe energy and have at least a little bit less light pollution).
The red light and green light arrow indicate, that the general traffic light is red (so no going straight or left), but the green arrow allows traffic to turn right. Without the specific arrow light you wouldn't be allowed to turn right either. Also a reason you might be confused is, that traffic lights in Germany generally are on the side of an intersection from which you are approaching so you can see them from a greater distance while approaching the intersection.
At 11:06 you once again comment on the white lines vs yellow lines. While I can see your point, in Germany the lines generally work as follows:
yellow lines are temporary lines put up for construction work overwriting any white line.
White lines are the standard lines. Also important to know: if the line is without breaks, you aren't allowed to cross it normally (though there are exceptions like the line where to stop at a stop sign, which can be crossed after checking there is no traffic). Broken up lines are allowed to be crossed, however they do not always indicate another lane, but rather that overtaking is allowed. So it is always safer to assume there might be oncoming traffic as long as you aren't sure. But since we have the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (driving on the right rule) you should drive as far right as possible anyway whenever you aren't overtaking somebody or want to take a left turn and there's a specified left turn lane. A special case can also be a double line with one side broken up. In that case only cars driving on the broken line side are allowed to overtake (and cross back into their lane afterwards) while the traffic on the side with the complete line isn't allowed to overtake.
At 12:17 the right before left is in effect at any intersection without signs/traffic lights. Normally you find that in the smaller streets only. The rule says, that if you have a car coming from your right that car has the right of way. But for them the same rule applies. So if you also have a car coming from your front they will have to let that one pass first since it is coming from their right. If a car is coming from all four directions, the one reaching the intersection first is the first one to go, however a bit of common sense should be applied. That is quite unlikely to happen though since as I said the rule normally only is in effect on small streets with little traffic.
At 12:44 the sunken curb is basically considered to be like a driveway even if it is a street. And as you can imagine merging into traffic from a driveway always requires you to wait for the traffic to pass.
17:00 You don't see the light because it is to the right front of the car and the camera has a limited viewing angle. The driver can see the light perfectly fine by just looking to the upper right corner of the windshield.
17:56 The lines in a crossing normally show you how to drive when you are on the main road and want to continue on the main road. Any other way you just have to imagine your lane yourself in most cases.
21:30 The green arrow sign is telling you, that even though you have a red light, you are allowed to turn right as long as you aren't disturbing the traffic on the crossing street. Otherwise you aren't allowed to turn right during a red light like I know some American states allow you to do.
24:10 He is correct about it being illegal, but keep in mind he is a driving instructor teaching you the correct way. In daily life you will see people do that all the time because as you said: he was gone before you arrived, so no harm done. I would even claim police cars would do the same.
Yellow signs are only traffic signs with additional helpful information. They don't serve any other purpose by law than to regulate traffic.
About 24:10 totally agree. But you can see the red car not ending up on the right lane, so he skipped the crossing a bit and maybe really should have waited to reach the correct lane. But yeah. Nothing to really worry about
Two things:
The "Schnellstraße" at the beginning also has the advantage that the speed limit is also way higher than on a normal street. (I thought it was 120 km/h but internet says it's like on the autobahn)
Also traffic lights in Germany are not PERFECTLY visible. It is often kind of a strech to get to see the traffic light. That's in my opinion an advantage of the American design.
Everything else, I totally agree.
@@fettpiek Schnellstraße is 120 km/h if traffic directions are isolated from each other (Kraftfahrstraße). The only exception is when the signs are blue instead of yellow. The only case I know is the B28 which is technically not an Autobahn but is treated as such (blue signs, isolated directions etc.) and so there is no speed limit on it (same rules as Autobahn).
@@xdevs23 So I just looked deeper in it and I think you're wrong.
§ 3 (3) 2c. of the german StVO states: "[F]ür Personenkraftwagen sowie für andere Kraftfahrzeuge mit einer zulässigen Gesamtmasse bis 3,5 t, 100 km/h. Diese Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkung gilt nicht auf Autobahnen sowie auf anderen Straßen mit Fahrbahnen für eine Richtung, die durch Mittelstreifen oder sonstige bauliche Einrichtungen getrennt sind.", meaning outside the city it's 100km/h but this doesn't take effect for any Autobahn or Autobahn resembling road with a divider for both directions.
So theoretically it doesn't even have to be a Kraftfahrstraße but those kind of roads mostly are. (Didn't know this fact before).
I'm not sure what the deal is in Germany, but in the UK, if you see a speed limit in a sign with a red circle round it, that's a mandatory limit and can be enforced - but if there's a rectangular plate that says "max speed 40" accompanying a bend or other warning sign then that is just advisory (and they are usually set very conservatively). In Spain, it felt like a complete mess, with no clear indication whether a speed limit was just for a particular hazard or whether it extended beyond, which got very confusing!
5:25, in much of Europe, the blue car symbol means motorway or expressway, so the crossed-out blue car symbol means end of motorway or expressway. There are various traffic laws that only apply on those classes of road, so it's easier to have a symbol for it than to spell them out in full each time.
6:20, sometimes you might find a combination of red and green arrows pointing in different directions, but in general a red light with a green arrow means "stop except if you're going in the direction of the arrow"
11:15, agreed that having a different colour line separating opposing traffic could be an improvement. That said, I can't remember any time when I've driven onto the wrong side of the road because I've got confused about which lanes are which, it's usually a lot easier to tell in context when you're there than when you're watching on a screen.
13:50, it's very common in Europe to have two-way roads that aren't wide enough for two cars to pass if there are parked vehicles, so if the parked vehicle is on your side then you have to wait for any traffic coming the other way to pass.
24:20, I think the problem was that the red car cut the corner, and so was driving on the wrong side of the road - in the UK, that wouldn't be illegal, but you would certainly be at fault if you caused an accident in doing so.
00:28:15 downhill is on manual gear easy set lower gear then engine (without steping on gas pedal) will naturaly breaking without need pushing break pedal or much less needed push breaks.
Sorry, I'm updating this entry but I have to stop the video from time to time. ;)
Ausfahrt = exit :D
He was driving on a Schnellstraße. I think the correct traanslation is express way. It's not the Autobahn.
You are right about the green arrow and the red light. He is only allowed to turn right. The yield sign is only valid in case the traffic lights are off for some reason. And, of course, you should be careful and look to the left before you turn. And you should look for pedestrians and bycicles: some of them ignore the red light!
That smaller light is not prompting you, but it's for pedestrians (and bycicles). And usually your light will turn green soon afterwards.
Right-before-lef: If there are no traffic light or other sign indicating who has the right of way, the car/bycicle/pedestrian that is coming from the right is going first. If there is an intersection and all cars arrive at the same time, you should make eye-contact with the other drivers and grant them the right of way. You will find a solution. ;) In my over 20 years of driving I never had that.
"Sunken curb" is a one to one translation. I assume there is a better one. But basically those intersections coming from houses, minor streets, supermarkets usually don't have priority. The vehicles on the main street go first.
Billboards aren't as common as in the US. They find some in the cities or at the city limits. On the autobahn there are some but there are not for advertisement. Usually they are there to make you aware of dangerous situations or "don't text while driving".
The bus is not really parked. There is a difference between parking and standing or waiting. If you park you usually shut off the engine, log the car and leave. If a vehicle is just standing or waiting the driver usually is inside.
Induction loop: There are cables in the ground that recognize that a car is slowly rolling over them or stopping there. A signal is sent to the traffic light to grant you a green. If no cars are there, the traffic light will stay on red. Don't ask me about the technicla details. ;)
EMO seems to be a company. At least that sign at 17:27 indicated that delivery trucks can enter at that intersection.
There are cars that shut down the engine while you are stopping at a traffic light. To save gas.
Advertisement for McDonalds... :D And on the left you have some billboards.
That green arrow sign is basically like the green arrow light just without an off button. ;) I remember that there are "no turn on red" signs in the US. It's bascially the opposite. If you go slowly into the intersection, stop for the traffic coming from the left and the lane is free you just turn right.
Green arrow was discussed and introduced when I was younger. As far as I remember its an East Germany invention. And mostly older people still don't like it.
Ecological driving: You shift up to the next gear as soon as possible. And if you slow down, you try to roll as much as possible instead of hitting the brakes at the last moment.
That illegal bycicle: It was fine crossing the street for going straight (green light) but then it turned to the left and crossing the other street as well. And there would have been a red light, definitely.
The pedestrian crossing with the switched off traffic lights: There are button to push and then the traffic lights switch on and go to green for the pedestrian really fast. It's used at less frequently needed crossings and saves some power.
I hope I covered everything. If you want to know anything... Will be here to watch your next video.
When I was in France I also wondered why the city of "Sortie" was so big and I had never heard of this city.
_"In my over 20 years of driving I never had that."_
I had this several times, but usually as a bicyclist: The solution is easy, just go first because all of the cars had stopped yet and the drivers don't know what to do.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer That was also my first thought when I read this for the first time. After a few streets, it was clear to me that this must have a different meaning.
EMO is a fair on the exhibition grounds. Its in hannover, which has one of the largest exhibition grounds in Germany
Don't worry, you did your best, that counts. 👍 Germans have it easier, since we start learning signs since pirmary school for our bicycle test in 4th grade 🚲
learning the signs is also easier when you walk and ride with your parents and see all the signs all the time. and it also helps to have no text so that you can learn the most important and most common signs already when you can't read yet, long before starting school.
bicycle test is not mandatory. i never had one.
@@kurzwaslernen2843 i never had one either, it didn't even exist back then.
U need to have a bicycle test to ride it … as Czech person I’m mind blown that u need to have test for bicycle. We have it for free
One of the main driving rules in Europe, is that if there are no signs in an intersection, the vehicle on the right has the priority to pass. That's why the white and yelow diamond sign is important or the inverted white and red triangle are important for drivers to know if they have priority to go or not.
24:30 The red car only got through the intersection in time because it turned into the wrong (oncoming) lane. There wouldn't have been the time for it to turn properly so it's illegal.
25:50 if we decided to go straight we'd have struck the cyclist. he most likely had a red light.
Your comment about the sign to Ausfahrt reminds me of when a couple of friends were visiting Paris and were travelling on the métro 🚇. The carriage was crowded and they were struggling to see through the windows, but as they pulled into a station, one of them glimpsed a sign on the platform and called out "We're just coming into Sortie, can you find it on the map?"
_Sortie_ is the French for "exit"...
It was so much fun to notice what I don‘t notice anymore while driving, because I usually follow the signs automatically.
Ryan, you would be a great driver in Germany, since you use your brain. I feel that‘s the most important thing here. Once you understand the rules, you almost don‘t need most of the signs.
It's so funny to me that he said the "no parking" signs seem to be The most common because for one, he's kind of right probably but at the same time I have never noticed how many of them there are. I just love getting a New view on stuff like that
8:10 It's so cool how fascinated you are with the yellow traffic light :D That's basically how every normal traffic light works in Germany (and I think in most other European countries too). Only the pedestrian traffic light switches from red directly to green, without any yellow light in between
And basically you need it in manual cars where you have to prepare yourself
Nope. Red and amber before green is not common all across Europe. (edit: Apparently many European countries do it this way but there are also many that don't.) In the Netherlands we have just red before green. The same in Belgium, France and Spain. I'm not sure of other countries. I saw a picture of a Swedish traffic light with both red and amber on so I assume they do it the same way as Germany.
@@jiriwichern It's red, orange, green in Slovakia too.
@@Sirius_home Pressing the clutch and flipping into first gear really doesn't take more time than moving the right foot off of the brake over to the gas.
This video actually made me look up the rules for "orange" traffic lights (red and yellow lit). Turns out I had been regularly commiting a misdemeanor carrying a 15€ fine by starting to roll over the stop line at orange lights. Never got in trouble for this, but I simply leaned this wrong. It is sadly too common here in germany for impatient people to freak out being the second car at a traffic light with you in first, and you don't start rolling before green actually comes on.
@@ESCLuciaSlovakia and some traffic lights even have timers for when exactly you get green
24:54 I am with you. He's already gone, and so he caused no problem for us.
Well, its a Fahrschullehrer, what did you expect? ;o)
The yielding sign above the traffic light is what's valid is the traffic light is out of action or when the traffic light is turned off overnight.
Turning right on red: normally not, only if you see one of those green arrow metal shields on the traffic light like in 20:58, but you of course have to stop first at the red light go slowly forwards and dont block any pedestrians bycicles or other cars while doing that!
Parking there are 3 different parking "styles" in Germany either on the street nect to the corb, half on the curb and fully on the curb, little blue signs show you what one you have to do!
And it's not a actuel test because the guy wouldn't tell him what to do!
5:50 I understand why Americans aren't abel to handel more than 2 arrows, if they even have problems to count to 5
17:00 The position of the traffic light increases safety because:
1. Prevents driving too far into the intersection. If you drive too far into the intersection, you will no longer see the traffic lights.
2. The right-turn lights are often positioned approximately where pedestrians might be (e.g. people with walking difficulties couldn't cross the street quickly enough). If the traffic light is on the other side of the street, you are probably not looking directly in front of you
And one additional thing. Having the traffic light on the other side only works if the crossing is rectangular. It would not work if there are more than 4 roads or they're at a flat angle.
THX...the FIRST one to explain why we have the traffic light in Germany as we do! Thank you, thank you, thank you......THAT is the argument and reason....
Apart from that (17:00), it is a legal thing. Signs and traffic lights provide rules for the piece of road right after them. It would be a legal issue if the light or a sign is further away, and still applies to a piece of road before it.
In Serbia we do have traffic lights hanging in the middle of the crossroad or are on the pole on the other side of the crossroad, but these are just auxiliary lights. For better visibility. There are still the main ones that are on your side of the crossroad, and there is a line on the road that you are not supposed to cross if the light is red. That line is aligned with the traffic lights.
@@Felix-st2ue Actually in the USA generally all intersections have traffic lights on the other side of the intersection - even when the crossing is not at a right angle or there are more than 4 roads. There is technology that can be used to make the signals visible only to the cars to whom they apply - in certain incoming roads or (turn) lanes.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#Programmable_visibility_signals
@JorgBarfurth that sounds like an awefully conplicated solution to a simple Problem. But probably not one that's not needed all that often.
German here, my son had his practical just a few months ago, and we've been studying (that was a whole family activity) for that together.
1:16 It is a road sign. It says "You're leaving THIS Town (the one crossed out) and the NEXT Town is that many KM ahead". Meaning, the usual "50km/h Speedlimit has been lifted, and the speed limit 'Ausserorts' (outside of settlement) is 100km/h, unless otherwise specified by signs." So unless it's an Autobahn or a speed road like this one, the speed limit is 100km/h outside of any settlements or towns or cities. Autobahn and Speed roads with at least two lanes in each direction do not have a speed limit unless otherwise specified.
1:36 It is in fact a "Danger" or rather said "Attention!" sign. This one is meant for a bumpy road (Yeah, that happens when the street got fixed or because of the road conditions here too), or speed bumps ahead.
2:29 Ausfahrt only means exit *lol*
3:16 Digital signs are indeed getting installed more, for the simple convenience of not having to manually put up and tape off signs, in case of construction sites, traffic jams, lanes closed, accidents ...
3:39 The blue sign in question is pointing to a parking lot, usually with restrooms attached.
If you look ahead, you can see a larger yellowish orange Sign. This sign tells you where the next exits are, which cities are along this road and so on. On this sign, at the top, there is a smaller one. (Not the two on the very top). That one is blue, and has a road with a bridge over it. This indicates "Autobahn". Meaning, you follow this speed road, you'll reach the autobahn.
Autobahn has those signs in blue instead of yellow. That's how you see if you're on a "Autobahn-Alike" (Namely speed roads) or on an Autobahn itself.
4:37 Those speed limits are enforced, yes.
5:23 Actually, this sign indicates the speed road you've been traveling on stops here. Meaning smaller vehicles like bikes, tractors and rollers are allowed on the road you're following now, which before, on the speed road, they have not been allowed.
6:12 Those are lane based lights. Basically, the basic traffic light is for the lane that goes straight ahead. The arrow is for, in this case, those who would turn right. If you didn't have an arrow, the basic traffic light would be for all the lanes. (You sometimes have more than one traffic light, even if it just goes straight ahead. The one on top that shows the people that come from behind that it's go or no go, so they can prepare, and the smaller one more on 'eyelevel' is meant for the people that are standing right in front of the crossing, so they can see the traffic light too)
If there are signs at the traffic lights, they are to regulate traffic should the lights not work. It's "Lights, then signs, then left before right".
8:24 basically, yes. Means, you can restart your car, start shifting into first gear, but you're not allowed to drive yet, and then green.
10:34 If pedestrians get green light at the same time you might drive, there'll be a yellow flashing sign on the traffic light. If you look closely at 10:38, you can see the red light for pedestrians, and there is a black box hanging beside that. There will be the yellow flashing light, if the pedestrians have green while you do. You have to yield for pedestrians.
11:33 that's what the street arrows and lines are for. They tell you "You're following this line."
13:12 "Sunken Curb" is exactly that. It means there is an exit or entry to a private property. Be it a shopping center parking lot like this, or a private road, or simply the driveway of a home. State property like parking lots for town halls, churches, whatnot, they also most often have sunken curbs. They do not have the right of way, since they're entering the 'public roadway' from a private driveway. HENCE the sunken curb, because it's not an 'official public roadway'
15:07 Outside of settlements, like on an Autobahn, advertisements and billboards are forbidden. You can put up billboards when you're in town, and there are some, but most are on the facade of a house facing your lane. And yes, as someone who has been to the USA, the amount of billboards there is just mindblowing...
16:38 basically, it tells the traffic light system "Someone's driving up to the traffic light. Please change accordingly". It's used for crossings with traffic lights, where there is one or two roads that aren't that busy that it would need a whole light cycle. Crude example, if there is no one driving onto that induction loop, that traffic light stays red, while the other much more busy streets' lights stay green.
17:01 'Your' light is in this case hidden from the camera by the mirror. It's the traffic light next to your car, basically.
18:31 It's a Start-Stop-Automatic. The newer cars literally turn off if you come to a stop (like at the traffic light), then turn back on once you tap the gas pedal to drive (it can vary, model to model). Unless you're manually turning off the car (with keys, fob, button). It's to reduce smog and gas consumption.
21:11 yeaaahhhh green arrow signs. That's something like the american way of "turn right on red". Same principle. No one comes your way, it's still red? you can turn right. Usually, you can NOT turn right on red. It's forbidden.
22:54 Yield to pedestrians, that's right. The yellow flashing light is a warning light for that, maybe because it's not well lit.
24:12 Illegal because he left the priority street, and took priority from 'us' who were staying on the priority road. As if you'd both go down a straight road, and they'd just pull into another road, right in front of you, crossing your lane. (Plus, the hero driving the red car was cutting the corner, driving on the wrong side of the road he pulled in. If he hadn't done that, he wouldn't have been 'out of the way' that quickly.)
26:15 Those are pedestrian activated lights. They hit a button, the lights turn on red, and you have to yield.
So basically, this is a driving instructor and his student. This is practicing for the practical exam.
WHILE the exam is running, the instructor is not allowed to give tips or tell the student what to do.
The examiner sits in the passenger seat, and he and the instructor will do some small talk. THIS TOO is a test! To see if you can focus while others are talking/making noise/distractions.
The instructor will give you vague requests like "Turn the next right/left, find a place to park, turn the car if possible." They WILL test you, if you check your surroundings, and see if you know IF you can actually turn left/right/into a street, and they WILL try to trap you. "Turn right if possible" and the next one right will be a one way street that you're not allowed to drive in from your side. Or ask you to park, and it's a no parking zone. Or ask you to turn your car around, and there's no suitable space to reverse.
They'll also check if you buckle up, use the mirrors, ask question about traffic situations, tell you to "Speed up" when you're in a town and there are no speed signs in sight.
They're tricky! All to check if you keep constant sight of your surroundings, are aware of the street signs, and other traffic.
There's a reason that you usually have at LEAST 14 driving lessons (90minutes a lesson), and about 12 theoretical lessons, and why you need to pass the theoretical exam before the practical. Most people calculate about 3-6 months for their driving lessons (Of course, most 17-18 year olds are working or go to school, so there's about one theoretical and one practical lesson per week). And the usual price for all of that is around 2000€.
wiat, you got it for 2.000€ ... Now thats cheap ^^
@@julonkrutor4649 That's because my son only needed the mandatory practical and theoretical driving lessons. If it was more, or if he flunked one of the tests, he would have paid at least 500 more. I got mine for actually 1800DM, so barely 900€. Back then.
@@skyure Ich mach das mal auf deutsch ... die 1.800 DM sind leider nicht 900€. Inflation ist eine Bit** ^^
Ansonsten - ich habe meinen Lappen 3 in 3 Anläufen gemacht. 2 mal in der Großstadt ... Beider male ist mir ein Radfahrer vors Auto gefahren - quer. Beide Male sagte selbst der Prüfer es sei nicht meine Schuld, aber der Fahrlehrer war schneller auf der Bremse (und ich war nervlich durch^^)
Dann Kleinstadt und sofort bestanden ^^
@@julonkrutor4649 Inflation und all das, wären heutzutage, über 20 Jahre später, auch wieder fast 2000 Euro.
Und ja, so Kleinigkeiten ruinieren einem den Führerschein.
@@skyure I had my Spanish one for 125.000 ptas. (around 650 €) and I only had to do 10 mandatory practical lessons. I got it at first try, like your son. Now is really pricey.
1:16 is a very important roadsign in germany called "Ortsschild! It sets the allowed spped from 50km/h up to 100km/h. And the revers side( to see in 5:15 ) is setting the speed down to 50km/h without any additional speed limit sign. You really need to know the meaning of this sign when you drive through germanys countryside.
6:55 The yield sign takes precedence in case the traffic lights are switched or if they failed due to technical issues.
In Germany, at least on all multi-lane intersections, you will see traffic lights left, right, and above your lanes. The red light on the right says "Stop going ahead", while the green arrow allows to go and turn right only.
31:09 If you forget to look over your shoulder when you get out of the car at the end of the test, you will fail at the very last second.
THANK YOU so much for reading the comments. It was really infuriating in Part 1, but now it's satisfying :D
I can‘t tell how often I think "if Ryan would only read (more of) the comments, he‘d know this“ 😄
It was very satisfying, indeed, that this time he did, and that it actually helped. Hallelujah! 🎉
I am amazed by the number of times you are amazed about something so normal for us, followed by the sentence "we do not have that here in America". Things like default speeds, the well drawn map-like signs that give an overview of the crossroads ahead, and things like speed limits on exit ramps.
In Germany, the default speed in cities and towns is 50 km/h, outside of towns it is 100 km/h and on the Autobahn (just German for highway, nothing special) the recommended speed is 130. You can recognize a town by the yellow signs having the name of the town on them, and you leave a town when you see the same sign but with the name crossed out. No speed signs necessary, you just automatically think 50 or 100 respectively. And one other aspect about speed that is shown throughout the whole video is the sense of speed, not the speed limit. If you drive on a narrow and twisty country road for example, in theory you can drive 100 km/h there. In practice, you have learned that that is not safe, so you drive sensibly, about 60-80 km/h maybe. Just automatically, don't just stare at speed limits.
Yield signs above a traffic light are there for situations where the traffic light does not work. You gotta have a back-up.
He's not entirely correct about "default speeds" btw: There's a Wikipedia article called "Speed_limits_in_the_United_States_by_jurisdiction"
@@salat True, but the concept of a default speed in the US differs from state to state, and everytime the speed limit changes, there will be a sign. The idea of just not posting a speed sign when a town ends is not possible in the US, and it is in Europe. At least not in Indiana where Ryan lives.
Didn't it use to be 90 km/h rather than 100 km/h?
@@BlacksmithTWD In Germany, the maximum speed outside of towns and motorways has always been 100 km/h as far as I know. This speed limit varies from country to country; it is 80 km/h in The Netherlands for example, and 90 km/h in Slovenia. Just like the maximum speed on motorways, it is 120 km/h in Belgium, 130 km/h in France and 140 in Poland. The maximum speed in cities is 50 or 30 km/h (almost) everywhere in Europe, I know only Russia has 60 km/h.
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I guess I confused it with some other German traffic sign, not sure which, could be the 90 when wet sign or a 90 sign I came across on the german road I travel most oftly when going to Germany.
The maximum speed in the Netherlands is slightly more comples, on car highways (autosnelwegen) it's 100 km/h during daytime and 130 otherwise, on car ways (autowegen) it's 100, other roads outside towns 80 (though often there is a further reduction to 60 indicated by a sign).
16:31 Induction Loop in fact is an electrical component integrated in the raoad (asphalt) in front of a traffic light. It is capable to detect whether there is a car (a certain amount of metal) ) holding above it to trigger the traffic light sequence at this intersection.
2:33 "Ausfahrt" Is not a City it just means Exit of Autobahn/Bundesstraße
The yellow light comes together with the red light so that you can tell whether the traffic light will turn red or green next. if you only see a yellow light, you know for sure that the traffic light will turn red next and you should use your brake and not the accelerator.
1:13 That is a "Ortsschild". It will either show you what which city or town you're entering, at which point the speed limit is 50 km/h or in this case it shows you which city or town you're leaving (crossed out at the bottom) and which city or town follows this one and how far it is. This also indicates that the previous speed limit is now lifted.
1:33 You wouldn't have to worry too much. Just remember that an empty red-white triangle means "Yield". It's only upside down so it may be recognized from the back,
2:33 "Ausfahrt" is the German word for "Exit". That's an exit, not a city.
5:24 That sign indicates the end of a "Kraftfahrstraße", which Google Translate translates as motorway.
8:12 The traffic lights will start off red, then be red and yellow, then green and then yellow. This is done so you can easily see whether the light is turning green or red. The light will turn red and yellow only when all other traffic lights that are supposed to be red at that moment have been red for a few seconds so that any drivers still in the intersection may pass without danger. By the time you're light turns red and yellow, all other cars should be out/away/off (?) the intersection. This happens with every German traffic light that has three lights.
13:03 Basically, if it looks like someone just took the sidewalk and pushed it further into the ground to make it level with the road, it's a sunken curb.
14:45 Uhm... The car we're in is passing a load of trucks... Clearly showing.... that the street... can fit atleast two vehicles side by side with some space to spare?
21:50 Nope :)... unless there's a green arrow whether it be a sign or light
24:12 It seems you are having trouble understanding this situation and who has priority here so let me try to explain:
First lets say we are on street A, to the right is street B, in front is street C and to the left is street D. Now as you can see we have the yellow sign giving us priority but so does the red car from D. We know this because of the sign underneath the priority sign, the white one with the three lines. This indicates a curved priority street where all drivers which are coming from the directions of the thick line have priority. But if both drivers from A and D wanted to go straight, they'd collide so who has to yield to who? Easy! You yield to the right! Here A is to the right of D so D (the red car) would have to yield to A (we). After that between B and C priority is again determined by yielding to the right.
So if a car were to approach from all four directions and wanted to go straight or otherwise would have to go over the markings on the street the order is as follows:
1. A; has priority and is on the right of other priority streets
2. D; has priority and now doesn't have anyone on the right to yield to
3. C; all priority street cars are gone and you are to the right of someone
4. B; sucks to be you, no priority and the left doesn't have to yield to you because they have prority
25:50 The white car came from the other side of the instructer's car which would indicate that the pedestrian light is red there
26:12 It's a pedestrian traffic light. It only turns on if a pedestrian pushes the button on the pole and afterwards the traffic light turns off again.
Actually, the "Yield" sign has distinct upside down shape, because it must be visible even when its 50 years old and wind has sandblasted the paint off, or it got covered by snow. For this same reason STOP sign is a distinct octagon and priority road is a square balancing on corner. Being able to recognize sign from behind is never needed in normal driving (unless some joker turned the signs around, in that case, you have to slow down and drive very carefully)
@@MuSic-ok7dh What matters is that it's DISTINCT
24:12 I think he understands the concept of a curved priority street and was just confused that the driver said that the red cars turn was illegal because it looks like there was enough distance for the red car to make the turn.
I also think the red car had enough time to turn because the pov car didnt had to break or let go of the gas because of the red car, only if the pov car was driving straight then the red car would be in the pov's way.
For priority, in general, once you've stopped, you've given up all priority. So even if you 're on the priority lane, once the car comes to a stop, other cars can go before it.
Also, iI miss the green blinking in Germany.
9:00 in austria, we have green blinking too. essentially, at the end of the green phase, we get 3 times green blinking. it says: the traffic light is about to switch to yellow. think about it, if you can make it or not. great, if a crossing with green light is in the distance. you can determine if you can make it or not.
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sorry, it blinks 4 times, also the pedestrian light in the background
Hello, in Poland, on some lights we have also a clock with information, how mamy time to change is.
German here!
5:20 no that sign just means that you are no longer driving on the motorway.
6:15 a red light with a green arrow basically means you have to stop at the stop line (referring to the fat white line on which you should stop) then you have to make sure it is safe to proceed without endangering anyone who might be coming from any direction and THEN you can proceed to follow the green arrow. Sometimes the green arrow isn't even a traffic light like here, sometimes it is just a little black sign with a green arrow on it next to the red light. Also also, this "green arrow rule" isn't common all over germay, but where i come from you can see it very often.
6:43 in germany we have a rule for crossroads because sometimes the traffic lights stop working because of some sort of malfunction. The rule states that on crossroads the traffic can be regulated by
the police
by traffic lights
by street signs
and by "right before left"
You have to follow these things in that order. Meaning if there is a police officer managing the traffic, you have to follow his instructions and can ignore all other options. If the traffic light is working, you have to follow it if there is no police managing traffic. If there is no police and the traffic lights don't work, you have to follow the signs. And if none of these things are present or working, you have to follow "right before left". I hope this makes sense, it's really hard to explain but it's very simple once you understand it.
8:23 yep you guessed it right! In germany the traffic lights turn from red to red and yellow to tell you that you can prepare yourself for it to turn green so you are ready to go.
12:22 right before left is only used if there are no traffic lights or signs or anything else that indicates you who goes first. And right before left is meant literally wich means that if someone is coming from my right side on a crossroad i have to let them pass. If nobody is on my right but somebody is on my left, i go first because i am on their right.
15:41 well the signs and traffic lights are supposed to keep the traffic flowing and to avoid car accidents in areas where many people drive through every day. But on this street you can see that there isn't much traffic and it looks like it's an industrial area so there drivers should mostly use the right before left method. Same goes for the lane lines.
16:38 an induction loop is a sensor that is built into the road and you have to drive on or over it and the sensor sends a signal to the traffic light and the traffic lights then changes to green so you can go. This is used mostly on crossroads where one lane is used often and others are used less.
17:05 see in germany the traffic lights are placed very differently than the US. In germany, the traffic lights are most of the time directly next to the stop line where you stop your car right in front of the crossroad. Yeah sometimes it is hard to see them and speaking for myself i am a small female, i often have to lean forwards or backwards to see the lights.
17:15 it's not only hanging over the car, there is always a second traffic light on the right side of the other one just a little bit lower. I guess that the higher hanging lights are for truck and bus drivers since they usually sit higher that the average car driver.
19:50 that is a very popular marketing technique in germany. Many companies use these tiny trailers for advertising. I don't know why but it is very common here. And no there is usually nothing in these things. It's just for show.
20:20 yep thats the sign for the priority street which means that every car on any street that crosses this street has to let us go first.
22:53 yes you absolutely have to yield to the pedestrian on a "zebrastreifen". Many germans are extreme jerks when it comes to this because the rule states that pedestrians can cross the street on a "zebrastreifen" freely by WALKING. But many cyclists are very rude and don't even stop to get off their bikes, they just cross the rode via bike and that's very dangerous. Usually as a cyclist who wants to use a "zebrastreifen" they would have to stop and get off their bike and THEN they can freely cross the road. I once nearly crashed into a boy on a bike who was probably in elementary school because of his ignorance to this rule because i simply couldn't see him coming.
23:16 there is actually a sign and a rule for parking halfway onto curbs in germany so it is very common to see.
25:50 the bicycle crossed the road twice, the first time he had a green light but the second time he crossed the road he surely had read. AND he is using the sidewalk to ride on. Both things are illegal in germany.
26:15 that is a traffic light specifically made to help pedestrians to cross the road. If a pedestrian would want to cross the road they would push a button on the streetlight and after a few seconds the streetlights would turn on and quickly switch from green to red so the pedestrians can safely cross the road. Many traffic lights in germany have those buttons to make street crossing safer and easier for pedestrians.
28:42 the lights are only relevant for the lanes they are each hanging over or besides. So we are on the right lane to go right so our light is red indicated by the right red light and the hanging red light. The lane that continues forward currently has a green light hanging over it and one green light to the left of them.
I hope everything i explained makes sense, i'm driving my car minimum 90 minutes a day so i guess i know what I'm talking about. But honestly most germans don't know everything because we have so many signs and rules and exceptions to rules that it can get confusing very quickly so i can't guarantee. 😂
To 25:40 we can see a green light for us and the bicycle crosses right in front of us. Thet means he crossed a red light.
No, the bike originally came from the same direction as us and turned left. There was a green light from our direction. It only looked illegal because the cyclist made what is called an “indirektes Linksabbiegen” (indirect left turn).
25:23 no, this is not an actuall test.. nobody is telling you all these things when you get testet .. you have to know all of this
6:56 - The row of the rules is: police officer, then traffic lights, then traffic signs, then right before left. So in this case the yield sign does only apply, if the traffic lights are out of order.
ONLY if the traffic lights are out of order.
thats what he said@@steemlenn8797
hey first one here, french canadian and i love your canada videos but also love the german ones, so hi from montreal and have an amazing day
Induction loop is indeed an electro-technical term. It's a coil that detects if there is a car at the red light, so that the lights are set automatically to whatever it is set to do.
And in case a car is detected, immediately check all other directions for the absence of conflicting traffic and give you a green as fast as possible. It's to avoid leaving you waiting due to fixed-phase timing when there's literally no one else you would have to wait for.
And if you approach on a bicycle, you will be stuck there for all eternity, because most of them aren't sensitive enough to detect bicycles.
21:53 Yes you can turn right on red, with the digital green arrow like da traffic light one. You can also turn right on red if you have the green arrow sign. If that's the case you have to YIELD to traffic from the left tho
21:40 Correct! No right on red, EXCEPT when there is this "green arrow" sign. Then, you have to stop and can go if all clear.
The rectangle yellow sign with the red line inside it means "end of the city/town/village". Now traffic rules for rural areas apply, the most important one of them is that speed limit of 50 km/h is over. (km/h = kilometers per hour) The top part without the line shows you the name and way to the next city/town/village, in most cases the arrow shows the direction straight forward (but I think I have also seen arrows for right/left turn yet).
18:22 Some cars have a function where they automatically turn off the motor when you are standing, shifted into neutral and have the break pedal pushed down. As soon as you let go of the break pedal the motor will automatically start and you can continue driving.
Not quite. VW turn the engine off when in neutral and you let go off the clutch. The brake pedal has nothing to do with it. That would only the case with automatic transmission probably. The engine starts up when you press the clutch pedal down to shift into gear.
The electronic speed signs are pretty useful.
They would display the typical 100 or 120 kph, but can be changed. For example in case of weather when there is an accident ahead.
And yes, while there are parts of the Autobahn with no speed limit (but a recommended 130 kph), the rest has a 100 or 120 kph limit.
As a German it's really great to see you reacting to something that seems so obvious to me - although if you start to think about it it's REALLY confusing. Like yeah, all the markings on the street show if you're on a priority street, because if they cross you have to yield. Also with no markings or a yield-sign it's always "right before left" - which does not apply on a lowered curb and ALSO not, if the street on the right is a "Spielstraße", play street with low traffic. And the yield signs on top of traffic lights are for the case they don't work, so you still now which rule applies. You can think of the upside down yield-sign as "Attention!" - so if you got this sign with a red, yellow and green circle in the middle it would mean "Attention, traffic light!". Oh, and some cars have an automatic start-stop, which turns off the engine at a full stop to save fuel - that's what you've heard when the traffic light turned to yellow.
Yeah, it's easy when you've learned all that but REALLY confusing for anyone else.
29:11 arrow in light means no crossing trafic. A normal light indicates to watch out for other trafic still
0:52 - As a German I never really thought about it, but that's not an Autobahn-specific sign. You'll find those arrows all over the place.
1:13 - That's a sign that indicates that you leave a city or municipality and which city or municipality will follow afterward.
1:39 - Contrary to the yield sign, the "danger" sign usually shows what it warns of (uneven street in this case)
2:44 - Fun fact: Ecological driving is actually a real aspect of the driving test. They might fail you if you e.g. always drive in a too low gear.
3:30 - This is indeed not the Autobahn but not *because* it has a maximum speed. In fact, majority of the Autobahn has a speed limit. It's a "Kraftfahrstraße" which is kind of "one level below" the Autobahn. You easily see that you are on one due to the yellow signs contrary to the blue ones on the Autobahn.
4:30 - While those are enforceable and punishable, you probably won't see anyone driving 50 there.
5:14 - There you have the counterpart of the sign at 1:13. It tells you which city or municipality you're about to drive into. PLUS it also indicates that the speed limit is now 50 km/h because you're within a city.
5:40 - Not only that, it tells you how many parking spots are still available on each lot.
6:26 - Yes you are allowed to turn right. And as it's a green arrow and not just a green circle, it also indicates that there's no traffic from other directions you might need to yield to. The other red lights are valid for the whole intersection: For turning left, right and going straight. And the green arrow overrides that as the more-specific traffic light for a single direction.
6:40 - In fact way too many German driver's license holders don't get it as well which is quite annoying hahaha. Signs on top of (or below) traffic lights that indicate that you either have to yield or the way of right ONLY (and I mean ONLY) apply when the traffic light is off (either completely off or the middle yellow-light is blinking).
6:54 - Yes. Yes. No (because the traffic light isn't shut off, thus the sign has no meaning whatsoever).
7:47 - There are two versions of this. One with two red lines through it (like an X) which means no parking and not even stopping for a short time. And there's one version with just one red line through which means no parking but stopping for < 5 minutes for the sake of loading/unloading is permitted.
8:20 - Yep. The reason for that is pretty simple. If you'd just see a yellow light you wouldn't know whether the traffic light is about to turn red or green. By indicating red + yellow it shows you that it was red and it's about to show green. When it's green and goes to red, only the yellow light is shown (no green + yellow). So you always know which comes next and can react properly.
9:20 - Yes, but only those with three lights. There might be traffic lights with only two lights (green and red) that are shut off if they are not required. Those are usually for pedestrians.
13:33 - It's a street that comes from the right. So you have to yield for cars coming from there. But they can't really see in there, so you need to slow down (sometimes even first gear) and creep into that intersection to ensure no one is coming from there. Because cars that would come from that street know that they have the way of right and sometimes they just blast into the intersection without even looking. And while that's not good as well, it's your responsibility to ensure that you don't fail to yield there.
18:30 - That's a stupid EU-thing where they dictated us to have something called Start-Stop-Automatic. If you leave your gear selection in neutral and step from the clutch, the engine shuts off and re-starts once you press the clutch again. Minimal effect for maximal wear and tear. However, it's not specific to manual cars. Automatic cars do that as well here. You can turn it off but you need to do it every time you start up the car. Really annoying.
19:48 - Here's another fun fact. You noticed that we don't have many billboards which is correct. Companies found another cool trick to advertise their services in a cheap way. They just get a trailer, put some ads on them and then just park those trailers around their businesses. Trailer can remain parked for free for 14 days before they need to be relocated. Then you just attach it to a car, drive 50 m down the road or around the block and park it again. Profit. Free advertisement space.
20:30 - Yes but then we'd have either a stop or a yield sign. The more common scenario would be that there's no priority (right of way) at all and it's just left before right. Either way, the car on the right would have the right to go first in those cases.
21:01 - Don't worry if that's confusing. It's a very rare sign in the west, more common in east Germany. I'd guess 80% of the German population don't know how to PROPERLY handle it.
21:59 - 100 of 100 points. You basically just passed you citizenship test ;-)
22:33 - Yes it is
22:52 - You assume right, you need to be ready to stop and yield to the pedestrians at any time
24:30 - It happens all the time. However, the red car crossed "our" lane in order to turn left into that street there and if it's a close call or you make the other car break/stop accelerating you will definitely get honked at.
25:28 - It's not an actual test. In a real test, you'd have your driving instructor sitting next to you and the official that conducts the test would be sitting in the back. And they only tell you what to do in German (Turn left at the next possibility, parallel park you car here, whatever). That's all you will hear from them. I guess it's more like a test simulation for a drivers license holder from a foreign country where the instructor is preparing him for the test.
26:12 - This is the kind of traffic light I talked about at the 9:20 mark. It only turns on when a pedestrian specifically requests to cross the street.
29:00 - You'll find both and they both mean the same.
31:08 - Especially in bigger cities there were many incidents in the past where cyclist were killed (!) due to a suddenly opened car door. Those are extremely sturdy and you can imagine what happens if you blast with 30-40 km/h into that door with your bike.
if you drive 30-40 with a bike than you are the one to blame and no one else
@@kurzwaslernen2843If you go 30 with a bike where 50 is allowed, you are the one to blame, fascinating. Geh' mal kurz was lernen und sag' Bescheid, wenn du rausgefunden hast, dass das Unsinn ist.
The sunken curb also here in the Netherland implicates an "exit" (uitrit) construction. And as you know, when you go from your private land onto a road, you also have to give all other traffic the right of way. Here in NL there are many sunken curbs. It also is then when a side walk bou dry does not end, it has the same rule as the sunken curbs.
but you have to be careful, when you drive more than 10 minutes in the NL you may be already abroad
@@manloeste5555 now you mean San Marino 🇸🇲....😋
But indeed 2 hours from west to east and about 4 from north to south. 100 km/h between 6 and 19h and on many places 130 km/h between 19 and 6h. And wayyyyy better roads then in Germany, Belgium or Great Britain.
14:00 we had in Germany some railway rails for connecting different factories. Some of these freight trains used also streetcar rails.
In Berlin where I live, we had this kind in Schöneweide and Weissensee, there was much industry, that needed freight trains. Meanwhile we have abandoned level crossings.
In the Hannover video you may notice the railway and that the factory railway have connections to the regular railway.
23:15 if you look closely to the blue P (allowed to park) signs every 3 seconds, you will notice the tiny white attachment below the P, it has the drawing of a car with one half on top of a curb... so this is how you must park here.
Some times that tiny white attachment below the blue P indicates 45 degrees angled parking, and so on.
28:29 and the policeman sais "unfortunante, here is your speeding ticket" :D
18:14 the sound of the car is the engine starting. It's the start-and-stop feature (mandatory in all new european cars): when the car is still and the gear is in neutral, the engine stops. When the light is red and yellow, you push the shift pedal to engage the first gear, this pushing on the shift pedal makes the engine restart automatically.
It's not mandatory.
3:16 digital signs are quite common on major highways and also the autobahn in Germany. One goal ist to slow down traffic
when traffic density increases. This reduces possibly dangerous situations that would arise when fast cars approach queues from behind, and it also may avoid the formation of traffic jams.
Congratulations on your channel, Ryan. Youre a nice guy to sit and watch a video with. Already 80k subscribers, incredible how much your channel has grown. I've been here since the beginning, and its crazy to see that soon you will be at 100k! Keep up the great work and best wishes from the Netherlands as always. :)
He should read more and not act so stupid all the time. I watch the videos, but I won't subscribe.
18:21 it's the stop and start feature, when you are at stop whatever reason and you are on neutral, the engine stop automatically, when you apply to the clutch pedal, it's start the motor again without any other action from your part.
the last thing shown in this video is realy important, it's the so called "dutch reach". it prevents accidents and saves lifes.
as byciclist, i am always thankful watching cardrivers and passengers (!) perform this move, and always say thank you when passing them by.
traffic participants get huge awareness through that technique!
maybe im a bit to young so im just used to it when growing up, but it seems crzy to me that u would try to leave your car any other way like what the heck do some people think? u just open that door and step right on the street without checking for anything?? thats so insane to me
@@saschaberger7201 Thanks for beeing aware of the traffic around you. But sadly, opening doors without checking causes still way too many crashes and injuries.
that's why this technique should be the gold-standard and mandatory to every driver and passenger. Greetings to you, Sascha!
@@SuperBalders Thank you, yea it def. should be mandatory like the "Rettungsgasse" imo. Many Greetings back ^^
At 5:28 it doesn't mean "no cars allowed", it just indicates the end of "Kraftfahrstraße" (highway/motor way), meaning you're on a "normal street" again ... and in this case inside a town (as indicated by the yellow rectangle sign with the name of the town on it) with the speed limit of 50. And yes the yellow light on a traffic light means it will turn green shortly. It works the other way around too ... if it's green and turns to yellow you will know the traffic light will turn red shortly after that.
"Ausfahrt" is German for "Exit". 🤣🤣
Every intersection, etc. that has traffic lights also have signs in case the lights fail.
The sequence of the traffic light is red - red/yellow - green - yellow - red for cars. The small ones for pedestrians only have red and yellow, except in Dusseldorf, they have a yellow as well.
We call the yellow diamond a "Spiegelei" (fried egg)
21:45 that's exactly it! You aren't allowed to turn right on red traffic lights at all - with the only execption if there is this small sign next to the traffic light with the green arrow to the right on it. And you don't see that too often. You pointed out that one perfectly 🙂
One of the few rules that the west adopted from the east after unification. Before unification that did not exist in the west.
Important thing many people, even in Germany miss: The green metal arrow while the stoplight is red means you have to stop, like at a stop sign only after you have stopped you are allowed to drive right carefully if you don't obstruct anyone.
6:48 The green arrow is pointing right so it's for the cars turning right. The red light next to it is for the cars going straight and thats either an arrow or a circle. The yield sign above the light is for when the lights are not working.
The signs above the lights are for when the lights are broken + 18:32 he started the car to start driving again bc. "Climawandel"
26:20 you have to push a button to activate the traffic lights as a pedestrian. Also the bike just before that crossed the intersection from right to left and there was a traffic light he ignored
16:36 induction loops or other methods to detect vehicles waiting at a red light (like video detection) are pretty common. If you don't stay at the right spot you maybe wait you entire life for the traffic light to turn green😉 because if the Detectors doesn't detect a vehicle the mainroad will always stay green.
Have you ever watch "Not just bikes" "Why the dutch wait less at traffic lights"? we have intelligent traffic light systems, with a lot of loops in the road (or bike paths) up to 3 loops and up to 50 meter before the traffic lights
m.ruclips.net/video/knbVWXzL4-4/видео.html
A T-intersection I was driving regularly got a traffic light with induction loops added a while ago. The first time I was also in "first place" for waiting on the light ,I didn't know, and worse, there were still some signs of the construction works left on the boardwalk so I intentionally stopped a bit earlier than I might have otherwise, and I waited forever, until another driver got out and told me to drive further up to trigger the induction loop. I felt a bit stupid, obviously. But I wasn't the first or the last to make that mistake, but by now it seems drivers have gotten accustomed to it. (I think they might have also added a sign to remind people to drive up to the road marking.)
Aside from the emberassing moments, the new traffic light has really improved the route, though. Before, you sometimes had to find forever to find a gap in traffic, particularly if you wanted to turn left.
@@DanielRMueller yeah i understand what you mean but we have a "Haltelinie" / Stopongline and you should stop at the Line not before or after because the detectors are configured to detect vehicles standing there not a Kilometer away😜
In my City we have some old traffic lights with the sign but most of them don't get a sign because it is common. But sometimes i have seen some people wait far away and they don't get green because they are to far away...
If you are driving a motorbike you maybe can get some trouble with some of the Detectors. Because the small size and light weight they often don't trigger the Detector even if they are well standing. If it is not perfect you will wait a long long time
timecode 31:00 - the dutch reach - opening the door with the right hand forces you to look through the side window. Not known to older drivers. dooring is serious problem to cyclists in cities.
I almost doored a cyclist - nay, prick on a bike - once, even though I did the diligent checks before opening my door. It was because I could not see him coming, as he was riding in the dark with NO lights, then he had the nerve to look back at me as if it was my fault!
We need more police on the streets.
9:28 That sign means "Halteverbot" so parking under 5 min not allowed there is neraly the same sighn bun only on time crossed that means parking not allowed so you can park there as long you dont block traffic and stay there under 5 min
A sheet metal green right arrow is even in Germany a bit "new". Its a leftover from East Germany and got taken over after reunion. An illuminted green arrow means you can go ahead and don't have to look for anyone crossing, not illuminated green arrow sheet metal sign means you have to stop for the red light, but can go ahead if no one is coming from the left. (@ 20:58) So, @ 21:58: yes, absolutely right.
6:53 Lights take precidence over street signs. The yield sign is for when the light is off (during the night or when it's broken or whatever). In the US you're generally allowed to turn right when red with yielding, unless indicated otherise ("No turn on red"), in germany you're not, unless a green arrow allows you to do that. If the green arrow is a sign, then it's like in the US. you can turn but you have to give way. If it's a light, you don't need to yield, you can just go.
But it's not like a yield but like a stop sign. you have to stop at red with green metal Arrow. Many get this wrong in Germany.
the line at the end (how to get out) referred to using the sam hand as used to change gear to open the door. So you reach from the opposite side of your body from the door. This is taught as it tends to turn your shoulders towards the door so you may see into the blind spot, and makes it less likely you will open the door into the path of a bike or passing vehicle, but also the door won't be flung wide in one move. In the UK this method is called the "Dutch reach". As you might expect, the Dutch don't call it that!
but it is invented in The Netherlands. There too many accidents car drivers open their door and hitting an approaching bicycle. Using our right hand (your left), force you to look in the mirror and at the dead corner before opening the door
The Billboard thing is for the most part heavily restricted by traffic safety laws, as they could be too distracting and such, sometimes it happens that one is approved by the authorities but later deemed unsafe by the police and taken back down again, so it's not always working so well, especially with animated billboards these days, one was approved a while back and ended up causing an accident... i do know one that still stands even though it's quite distracting since it is for a xxxclub... 😅
18:12 in Germany we have Start-Stop Automatic in the cars. So your car truns off when you waiting at a traffic light for example and it turns back on when you try to go on again. So you basicly heared the car starting.
That diagram at 5:44 is for parking spaces for Messegelände Hannover, a big exhibition centre that hosts various events, IAA and Agritechnica come to mind.
That sign is to show people approaching from the south side after coming off of the B6 south and on to Kronsbergstr./Lissabonner Allee.
If the person would have stayed on the B6 south, he could've either go of to the right and straight to stay on the B6, or right again at the clover leave intersection shortly after between the B6 and 443.
The B443 east can take to to the A7, both north and South bound.
If they would've gone center or left lane, they'd be on the A37 South which mergesinto the A7, but is only south bound.
Also, at the off ramp they took, turning right would've led you to the Blue and Yellow Swedish Lego furniture store that 1/3 of Germans only visit for the food.
the yield signs close to the red lights are only for when the red lights won't work.
I think, reacting to German resp. European traffic signs beforehand, would have been helpful :)
Hi Ryan, it is a basic rule that traffic lights or illuminated signs always have priority and simple signs are then used when the traffic lights are out. Another rule is that traffic should flow as best as possible and as long as you are going straight and you have green lights you do not have to stop (there is actually often a synchronization of multiple traffic lights after each other so that you can keep exactly at the speed limit, which is called a green wave). A synchronization of all traffic lights at an intersection is also happening, so that you also don't have to stop at traffic lights with arrows in it because you it is clear that pedestrians and cars from ahead have red. All that only works if you don't have the American turn right on red rule, which was the default rule in Germany for many years. However, the former GDR had the turn right on rule for some intersection which was indicated with the green arrow sign at traffic lights (the one that he didn't like because he was not used to it since the driver was from the non - GDR Part).
As I said, keeping the traffic flowing is one of the main is the main idea we have the priority street signs (yellow on white diamonds)and yield signs. If you are in a priority lane you can be sure that all neighboring streets have yield signs, some even have stop signs. However, stop signs are only at dangerous intersections, in all other you have yield signs, which means you don't have to actually stop but to approach slower and to observe the traffic in a why that you do not disturb the flow. If no one is there or you can see quite far enough you just can go. A second principle is right before left which is applied all the time where there is no sign or the priority lane is turning. If you are leaving the priority lane, e.g. straight ahead, you have are in first position if the priority lane turns left and you are in the second position if the priority turns right because someone comes from right from a priority lane. For the other ones it is the same. It's easy if you have it a couple of times.
Another big difference is that we (all over Europe) try to use words as little as possible since people with many different native languages use our roads. Therefore, we try to symbolize stuff as much as possible. The 180 degree turned yield sign means "attention" and the there is something symbolized in there, e.g. bumpy road ahead or train tracks ahead.
Regarding the bill boards, yes we have way less of them since they are distracting. You mostly find them in the cities and then at intersection where people might be stopping not at the Autobahn. Imagine you are driving 230kph (which is not that rare, at least for me ;) )and there are huge billboards everywhere like in the US. You should focus in the traffic and not the best lawyer to get rid of your wife. As someone who is regularly driving in many different countries in Europe, North America (i.e. US, CAN, MEX) or Asia, I can tell you that Germany has very thought through traffic rules and you need some knowledge about the basic ideas and rules before driving, therefore we have the rigid driving schools, however otherwise the system and the speeds we are driving wouldn't work with so little accidents and deaths (btw way less than in the us per Capita) and that traffic density and flow. Driving in the US is imho opinion is way more relaxed due to the wider streets, the long distances and the slow speeds, however sometimes even boring, so maybe it is Americans way of endless billboards and sometimes messy and countless street signs to make it not so boring. just kidding. Keep my fingers crossed that at some time in the future you can experience driving in Germany as well. It's not that bad but if you are not used to it you have to be more attentive.
21:55 in general, you're not allowed to turn right if the stoplight is red. If there is a sign with a green arrow on it, that basically means "turn right at your own risk if the way is clear", whereas an arrow-shaped green stoplight means "you may go, there is no crossing traffic". The sign is a recommendation, the arrow-shaped traffic light that we saw earlier gives you permission and guarantees the way is clear. The green arrow *sign* is more like a yield sign for right turns only.
6:53: The signs above or under traffic lights are backup signs. They specify how you should behave if the traffic light is off or out of service
Your vibe is great man! watched through both parts while editing (German driver here) One further thing you might have misunderstood is the so called "Rechtsfahrgebot" = "Right-hand side driving requirement" you always have to assume there will be traffic coming from the opposite direction, so you always drive on the most rightern free lane (unless you are in a city needing to change to specific lanes ofc, and also on the Autobahn, 3 lanes? All are free? you MUST drive on the most rightern. Overtaking? Check mirrors, toggle indicator to the left, overtake, and indicator to the right, setting indicators is always required when changing lanes) If there is a white blue loooong sing with the Letters "Einbahnstraße" (Oneway) (ß= basically a "S") there will be no traffic from the opposite direction. So you always take your left turns to the most rightern spot which are also usually indicated by diagonal round blue arrow sings but and half of the height that normal signs, usually ontop/infront of light polls or traffic islands. Additionally "Rechts vor Links" = "Right before Left" is the easy way to remember it, but at the lack of some information. It's ALSO "Rechtsabbieger vor Linksabbieger" which means: The one who turns right on a street or crossing will always have priority over the one turning left, for those usually cossing other lanes and therefore require to drive with caution, IF they have the same or no signs that is. Ranking of Instructions to follow: Police > Light signals > signs > "Rechts vor Links" ;)
Remember this and you will get used to driving relatively relaxed here. Ofc there are other who either dont know or care about some rules.
Hope you are having a lovely day!
Thüss! ;)
How to get out.... very important, since there are often bycicles in the road. I had an nasty accident as a kid, being on my bycicle because of the driver not paying attention. And thanks for your videos! :) I really enjoy those. Greetings from Austria
8:34 As most cars in Germany are manual shift you usually use the time during yellow to get ready, meaning shifting from idle to first gear so you are good to go at green light.
Edit: nevermind, you figured it out later yourself
ryan, in 6:30 you have to watch too the road arrows. One lane have an arrow pointing right. If you want to go to the right you have to change lanes and use the lane that permit go right and use the green traffic light. If you get on the other lane with the straight arrow, you have to stop because the traffic light is red and you are going to go straight.
at 6:45 here's how to decipher it:
Regular lights indicate you can drive straight, but in case you want to turn you still have to yield for oncoming traffic, pedestrian crossings, cyclists, etc that you would otherwise turn into/obstruct. If you have an arrow, that is a priority indication, meaning if it's red, you are not allowed to turn in the direction of the arrow even if your lane has a general green light. If the arrow is green, you can turn and you will have priority while turning (meaning crossing will be red for pedestrians, cyclists, and oncoming traffic etc).
So essentially, if you have a green arrow for the lane you're in, you can follow it without having to yield or look out for anyone (legally speaking. Ofc you should always check your surroundings even when you have legal priority).
at 8:20 yes the yellow is an alert that the light is shifting. When it is about to be green, it will have both red and yellow active at the same time. This ensures you know the light is already red, meaning it can only turn green from here. In the opposite case, when the green turns off it goes to yellow alone, and then red alone. So if you only see yellow, then you know the next shift will be to red. If you see red+yellow, then next shift will be green. Fool proof system :)
11:25 you would never find such a wide one-way street anywhere in Europe, ever. That'd be 4+ lanes going same direction, that's even uncommon on highways. Doesn't exist in any urban area whatsoever. Also the small dividing spaces in between the two traffic directions are called "islands" and always indicate a separation of direction of lanes. These are illegal to cross/drive over.
13:15 on some residential roads there are no sunken curbs or other indicators of yield priority, and in those cases you must always give way to the person on your right. Most of the time it happens on far narrower roads than this one, in areas where it isn't always clear which road appears to have priority.
17:15 it's just the narrow FOV of the camera that doesn't catch the light. There are at least 2 visible lights for the driver to look at without having to change their driving posture (a legal requirement for traffic light construction). Simply just barely outside the camera view, but not outside the driver view.
18:25 that's a "start-stop" system. You can get it in both manual and automatic cars, where the engine will shut down temporarily when you come to a halt, and when you re-engage the accelerator or move the steering wheel, it restarts the engine. It's a general economic/environment feature on most cars made since 2010.
24:40 Red car is doing something illegal because even if you 'can' make it, you shouldn't risk it. If there is a car with priority approaching, you should give way. You can also see by the speed the red car has to carry, they have no time to clear their surroundings and blind spots, they even pass across into the opposite direction lane on the street they enter due to the narrow corner angle they're forced to use. I mean, it's not a major offense by any means, but it's still technically illegal as it ads unnecessary risk to an otherwise riskless situation. The system is made to have near-zero risk, so anything that is above near-zero risk, is considered a wrong move.
27:03 For manual users who have driven manual all their lives, it's really not anything noteworthy. It's like second nature, you don't feel anything from having to shift an extra gear or not :) The light shift indicator is simply useful for maintaining a consistent traffic flow which minimizes risk of traffic buildup, it saves fuel, and promotes fewer road hazards.
30:00 You'd be amazed how many people just open the door without looking first, or by only partially looking. They may spot a car, but miss a bicycle in their regular blind spot - or simply not look at all and just be focused on having their driving test done with. I've heard stories from my own instructor back in the day of how many students he'd had to fail over the years for simply failing a proper vehicle exit, the literal last thing on your test.. He'd always be so disappointed in them lol.
Red car at 24:42: You are right, Ryan. Plenty of space and time. No critical situation. To consider such a situation as illegal is so german 😕
It's not German it's driving instructory.
It turned into the left lane of a two-way street.
@@phDexterable no it cut over the left lane.
Was about to say: he just got to turn in time because he cut the corner and used the left lane
In germany, you can't turn right at a red light unless there is that arrow sign. In this case you must treat the red light like a stop sign - you must come to a complete stop before carefully proceeding to turn. The arrow lights are different, they are simply separate lights for a given direction, meaning all other lights are irrelevant to you.
The green arrow applies the American rule for traffic lights. Stopping and turn right, even it is red.
This is correct but I'm not sure it's phrased in a way someone who doesn't know the system would understand so I'll try to say it simpler (no offense, OP):
Arrow sign, made of metal: you stop, look at the traffic, and only turn when you are sure you will not interfere with anyone who currently has a green traffic light
Green traffic light with the arrow shape: you can turn without stopping or looking at the traffic. (Obviously it's advisable to still make a short glance because other people can make mistakes, but you definitely have the right of way.)
Notably, this only applies to right turns. For left turns, you sometimes have to watch the traffic coming from the other direction even though the arrow is a traffic light because you have to cross that lane and other people in that lane might drive straight ahead or turn into the same street as you. As they are turning right and you are turning left, they have priority and you need to wait them out. You can only ever turn left once you are sure you won't get in anybody's way. It's pretty easy to remember, though. Just remember: when you are turning left, you have no rights. The pun even works in both languages. (And yes, having to wait people from the opposite direction out sometimes means that exactly one car turning left actually makes it through the intersection while their light is green and everybody else has to wait another cycle.)
20:21 the yellow diamond means indeed that you have the right of way as you are on the priority street (Vorfahrtstraße). It will also tell you if you are within city limits (then the sign is placed in front of the street coming from the right) or out of the city (then it will be located behind the street on your right). The positioning of this sign also helps you to determine if the speed limit is likely to be 50 (within the city) or higher (outside of the city).
Could even be used as an indicator for lower Speed limits within the city because if it's not there, there's a pretty big chance you're in a 30 zone. Almost no other part of a city uses "right before left" instead of traffic signs.
about yield sign over trafict light: In traffic control, a traffic regulator (e.g., a police officer) has the highest priority, followed by traffic lights, then traffic signs, and finally road markings. At around 18:50, the sound likely indicated that the engine started as the driver removed their foot from the brake pedal (istop function or so).
In case driving in a foreign country the first thing should be to learn what is the difference in given signs and signals. When I was a child, I got a book title "Peter and the cars" or something like that and there were pictures of traffic signs of many countries and I did learn them in my childhood. The idea behind was, that my parents did see me growing up and the day I would be on dangerous streets with my first bicycle was not far and they wanted me to know all traffic signs before. When I did visit USA first in my life and did know I would use a rental car there, I did learn the US traffic signs before...so the whole life is permanent learning, it is not forbidden to learn as an adult, and of course better than driving without knowing the signs. There is a speech in german language, I try to translate: Ignorance does not protect against punishment
While that is indeed the literal translation, I feel that "ignorance doesn't excempt from punishment" would be a better translation of what we Germans hear when someone uses this little saying ...
@@brag0001or as Brits say "ignorance isn't an excuse". We like to keep it brief.