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Guide road signs in Australia

Guide road signs tend to be blue or brown with white or yellow icons and white lettering, although the red signs advising of a steep descents grades are guides, too. They can include tourist information, public areas such as sports

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Freeway guide signs in Australia

Freeway guide signs help drivers to choose their exit or know when the freeway is starting or coming to an end, or whether there are special restrictions. If you try to enter the freeway down the off-ramp you will see

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Driverless cars: will the future mean you don’t have to have a driving licence?

To drive a car, you need a licence. It’s how it’s been for many decades, but it might not be like that forever because the car might be able to drive you. Driverless cars, also called self-driving cars or autonomous

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Crossbuck road signs in Australia

A crossbuck road sign is made of two slats of word or metal of equal length fastened together on a pole in a saltire formation (i.e. resembling an X). The only crossbuck signs in Australia are for railway crossings or

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What are the ways you can navigate?

Once you start driving you’ll find yourself in places you don’t recognise and you will need to navigate your way safely. If you grew up in the country, like I did, you’ll know there’s a lack of street signs and

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How can a new driver drive more safely?

Congratulations. You’ve spent a lot of your own personal time learning how to drive so that you can achieve your goal of a full licence. Now you’ve got it, you still need to get more experience, but hopefully without having

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Avoiding accidents by reading other drivers’ intentions

We can’t be looking in multiple directions at the same time so we spend the majority of our driving making assumptions about where other vehicles are going to be and what they are going to do. Sometimes, though, these assumptions

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