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  • We're going to help you learn your New Zealand using the mock theory tests at www.drivingtests.co.nz.

  • This will help you get your learner licence quicker. Today we'll look at the signs sections.

  • There are 44 questions in total, and we'll break this video into two lots of 22 questions.

  • These are the second 22. This blue sign shows that this area is a pedestrian

  • route only. This green sign shows children. You may also

  • see the sign in yellow, but it means the same thing: watch for children crossing.

  • This yellow sign shows light rail will be crossing the road ahead.

  • What colour flashing lights do maintenance vehicles use? Red lights are used by ambulances

  • and fire engines. Red and blue lights are used by police cars. Yellow and purple lights

  • are used by pilot vehicles, and yellow lights are used by maintenance vehicles.

  • When coming up to a one-lane bridge, what does this sign indicate? The white arrow is

  • on your side and pointing upwards. The red arrow is for traffic coming towards you. This

  • indicates that you have right of way if it's safe to proceed.

  • If there's another vehicle already on the bridge you must give way to that vehicle.

  • But if not, you are safe to proceed and other vehicles will yield to you.

  • This is a speed limit sign showing that the maximum speed is 100kph for a car. Don't get

  • confused and click D because not all vehicles are allowed to do 100kph. For example, if

  • you are towing a trailer you can only do 90kph. The answer is B: a car can drive up to 100kph

  • if the weather is OK. This sign is often seen near roadworks and

  • it indicates that the left lane is closed and traffic will need to merge from the left

  • into the right-hand lane. This yellow sign shows that there will be

  • a slight right-hand bend followed by a sharper left-hand bend, and the recommended comfortable

  • speed for that left-hand bend is 35kph. If it's raining you may want to take that corner

  • slower again. Which type of vehicle does this sign apply

  • to? Select all that apply. If we think about this question, what it's showing is that the

  • maximum height is 4.65m. So, you might see this sign on a bridge, and therefore there's

  • 4.65m of space underneath that bridge for vehicles to pass. So, obviously this is going

  • to apply to high vehicles. It could equally apply to wide vehicles because

  • a wide vehicle could also be high or it could be towing a trailer with something that's

  • high on it. Long vehicles, again, could be tall vehicles. And heavy vehicles could also

  • exceed that 4.65m. Therefore the answer is A, B, C and D.

  • This sign shows a speed limit of 50kph. Don't be confused by the trick answer 50mph. New

  • Zealand's speed limits are in kph. Which of these signs won't you see at a railway

  • level crossing? Sign A shows there's a crossing with a give way. Therefore if you are driving

  • up to the crossing and you can look up the crossing to the left and the right and see

  • there are no trains coming then you can proceed. If there is a train coming then you will stop

  • and wait for it. Sign B shows a railway crossing with a stop

  • sign. This is a compulsory stop. You must stop at the railway crossing, check whether

  • it's safe to proceed and if it is safe, then you can go.

  • Sign D is a sign showing that there's a railway crossing ahead. Sign C is the correct answer.

  • This shows a one-way bridge where you don't have the right of way.

  • What does this sign mean? It's a blue sign with an I pointing to the

  • right and it shows the direction to a tourist information centre.

  • This sign shows you are prohibited from turning left.

  • This sign is often seen around roadworks. It means that the road ahead may have loose

  • stones and therefore you should slow down. The stones can be flicked up by your wheel

  • and they can hit pedestrians and cyclists, or motorcyclists, and they can smash the windscreens

  • of other vehicles. This white sign shows that a bus stop is to

  • the left and the right of the sign. There's no parking in the bus stop except for buses.

  • What must you do at an intersection controlled by a give way sign? Select all that apply.

  • If you are turning, you must give way to all vehicles that are turning. Therefore A is

  • correct. If you are turning right then you must give

  • way to vehicles coming towards you, including those turning left. For example if you're

  • at a crossroads where both facing vehicles are at a give way sign, you're turning right,

  • and the car facing you is turning left, you must give way to that car turning left. So

  • B is correct. C, give way to all traffic on a continuing

  • road (which is the top of the T) if you are on the terminating road (which is the bottom

  • of the T). So, in this example, you've driven up to a T junction, you're waiting and you

  • have to look left and right to see if there's traffic coming up the road, you must give

  • way to that traffic. Therefore C is correct, too.

  • This sign shows that the national speed limit now applies, and therefore the speed limit

  • is now 100kph. It doesn't mean that it's necessarily safe to do 100kph, and you will often see

  • these signs on roads that are fairly windy where it's difficult to do 100kph.

  • This white sign with a black arrow pointing upwards indicates that this lane must proceed

  • straight ahead. This sign means no parking.

  • This sign means that you should watch out for cattle on the road.

  • This blue sign shows a white arrow on the left pointing up and a smaller red arrow pointing

  • down. The white arrow indicates that you have priority over vehicles coming towards you.

  • You will often see this sign in conjunction with a narrow bridge sign.

  • This sign indicates there's an accident ahead. You must slow down to 20kph or less until

  • you have passed the site of the accident. Once you've finished your test you will see

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