{"id":702,"date":"2014-04-24T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-09-20T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T04:50:13","slug":"top-10-misunderstood-road-rules-in-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/top-10-misunderstood-road-rules-in-new-south-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 misunderstood road rules in New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads and Maritime has a <a href=\"http:\/\/roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au\/downloads\/campaigns\/top10_misunderstood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convenient booklet<\/a> for learner drivers that explains the top 10 misunderstood road rules. Unsurprisingly roundabouts, signalling, lane discipline and following distances make up a good chunk of the guide.<\/p>\n<p>As R&amp;M provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questions in the DKT<\/a> (which you can view on this website if you are practicing for your learner licence), here are the main contents for the booklet with links to sample questions and answers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approaching a roundabout &#8211; where you should be and what indicator to use; changing lanes within the roundabout, turning left, turning right and exiting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/intersections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all roundabout questions are here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Giving way to pedestrians when turning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/pedestrians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all pedestrians-based questions are here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/general-knowledge\/575-are-you-allowed-to-use-a-hand-held-mobile-phon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using mobile phones<\/a> &#8211; L and P1 drivers are not permitted to use any function of a phone while operating a vehicle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/general-knowledge\/535-when-merging-onto-the-freeway-from-the-entranc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merging when the number of lanes is reduced or a marked lane ends<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Keeping left<\/li>\n<li>Using headlights and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/fatigue-defensive-driving\/670-when-it-is-very-foggy-during-the-day-or-night-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fog lights<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Making a u-turn &#8211; this includes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/traffic-lights-lanes\/906-are-you-permitted-to-make-a-u-turn-at-traffic-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">traffic lights<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/fatigue-defensive-driving\/685-you-should-leave-a-gap-between-your-vehicle-an\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe following distances<\/a><\/li>\n<li>School zones<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit-questions\/car\/intersections\/727-as-you-drive-into-an-intersection-the-lights-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow traffic lights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads and Maritime has a convenient booklet for learner drivers that explains the top 10 misunderstood road rules. Unsurprisingly roundabouts, signalling, lane discipline and following distances make up a good chunk of the guide. As R&amp;M provides questions in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/top-10-misunderstood-road-rules-in-new-south-wales\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-car","category-heavy-vehicle","category-motorbike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}