Vorfahrt
A junction with no signs and no lights. A car is coming from your right. What do you do?
Erklärung: Right before left. With no police officer, no light and no sign, the vehicle coming from the right goes first — and a bicycle is a vehicle like any other, with no special claim and no special duty.
A junction with no signs and no lights. A car is coming from your left and slowing. What do you do?
Erklärung: Right before left works in both directions. Coming from the left, the car has to wait for you. Waving people through is a habit worth losing: it takes the decision away from the person who can see best.
You reach this sign and the crossing road is completely clear. What do you do?
Erklärung: Give way asks you to be able to stop and to let others through — not to stop. If nothing is coming, you carry on. That is exactly what the octagon next door demands and this one does not.
You reach this sign; a car is on the crossing road but still far away. What do you do?
Erklärung: The stop is unconditional; what happens after it is a normal give-way judgment. Stop, look both ways, and go when the gap is real.
This sign is repeated along the street you are riding on, and a car waits in a side road. What do you do?
Erklärung: The yellow diamond switches right-before-left off in your favour for the whole length of the street. The car in the side road is the one who has to wait, whichever side it is on.
You arrive at a roundabout marked with this sign above a give-way triangle. What do you do?
Erklärung: Inside the ring has priority. Signalling on entry is expressly forbidden because it would suggest you are leaving at the first exit; you do signal right when you come out.
You are riding out of a supermarket car park onto the street. What do you do?
Erklärung: Coming out of a property, a car park, a field track or a traffic-calmed area, you are joining traffic rather than meeting it — right before left does not apply and you give way to everyone.
The lights at a junction are flashing amber and there are no priority signs. What do you do?
Erklärung: Flashing amber means the installation is out of service. The rules fall back one step: signs first, and if there are none, right before left.
You have priority, but the driver waiting in the side road is already rolling out and looking the other way. What do you do?
Erklärung: Having priority is a rule about who is at fault, not a force field. A driver who has not looked at you does not know you exist. Give up the right and keep the collision.
At an unsigned junction the car coming from your right must let you go, because a bicycle is smaller and slower.
Erklärung: No. Right before left makes no exception for bicycles in either direction. From the right you have priority; from the left you wait.
At this sign you may ride across the junction without giving way.
Erklärung: The thick bar is your road. This sign gives you priority — but only at the next junction, unlike the yellow diamond, which runs on.
What does this sign tell you?
Antwort:
give way
Erklärung: Be able to stop and let the other road through; you need not stop if it is clear.
What does this sign tell you?
Antwort:
stop, then give way
Erklärung: The wheels must come to a standstill every time, then the normal give-way judgment follows.
What does this sign tell you?
Antwort:
priority at the next junction
Erklärung: The thick bar of the cross is the road you are on. One junction only.
What does this sign tell you?
Antwort:
priority road
Erklärung: Repeated along the whole street; a diamond with a grey bar ends it.
What does this sign warn you about?
Hattest du es gewusst?
Antwort:
a junction where right before left applies
Erklärung: An even cross, not a thick one: neither road has priority, so the old default is about to decide. The thick-barred cross is the other sign.
What does this sign mark?
Antwort:
a roundabout
Erklärung: Almost always together with a give-way triangle: the ring has priority.
No signs, no lights. Which of these two goes first?
Hattest du es gewusst?
Antwort:
the car, because it comes from the right
Erklärung: Right before left. The rule does not care what kind of vehicle either of you is.
What does the German phrase "Vorfahrt gewähren" mean?
Antwort:
give way
Erklärung: It is written on the give-way sign and said at every junction lesson.
How do you say "give way" in German, as it is written on the sign?
Antwort:
Vorfahrt gewähren
Erklärung: The reverse of the card you already have — same fact, different retrieval path.
What does "rechts vor links" tell you to do?
Antwort:
let the vehicle from the right go first
Erklärung: The default at any junction with no officer, no light and no sign.
Which four things decide priority, in the order they are read?
Hattest du es gewusst?
Antwort:
police, then lights, then signs, then right before left
Erklärung: Each one switches off everything below it. A police officer overrides a green light; a green light overrides the yellow diamond.
You passed this sign and rode through the junction after it. At the next junction there are no signs, and a car is coming from your right. What do you do?
Erklärung: This sign gives priority at one junction only. After it, with no new sign, right before left is back. The yellow diamond is the sign that runs on along the road.
Who goes first at a roundabout marked with this sign and a give-way triangle?
Erklärung: The give-way triangle at the entry means you wait for the ring. Right before left does not apply here.
Riding out of a car park onto a street, right before left gives you priority over a car coming from your left.
Erklärung: Leaving a car park, a driveway or a farm track is not a junction. Whoever leaves one waits for everything on the street, from both sides.
You ride out of a car park onto the street. Who has to wait — you or the traffic on the street?
Antwort:
you do
Erklärung: Coming out of a car park or driveway, you give way to everyone on the street — right before left does not apply.
A priority sign beats the hand signals of a police officer directing the junction.
Erklärung: The order runs police, then lights, then signs, then right before left. A police officer overrides everything below.
A junction has working traffic lights and a priority sign that disagree. Which one do you follow?
Antwort:
the lights
Erklärung: Working lights switch the priority signs off. The signs only take over when the lights are dark or flashing amber.
The light is green for you, but a police officer standing in the junction signals you to stop. What do you do?
Erklärung: A police officer's signal overrides the lights, the signs and right before left alike.
If you have priority, you may keep going even when a driver pulls out in front of you.
Erklärung: Priority decides who is at fault afterwards; it does not stop a car. When a driver has not seen you, brake and let them go.
Priority decides who is at … if it goes wrong — it does not protect you.
Antwort:
fault
Erklärung: A rule about fault, not a force field.