Driver License Theory

Driver license quiz records.

1. ABS
   1. Prevent wheels from locking up when braking heavily. Vehicle is not maneuverable with locked braking.
   2. Maintain car manoeuvrability (机动性) at all times.
   3. ABS light is on in the control panel while driving: ABS has a malfunction.
2. Bicycle
   1. Cyclists riding on a lane or bicycle lane are comparable to vehicle, same yielding rules apply to them.
   2. Vehicles on a roadway have right of way to cyclists and moped drivers on a bicycle crossing. Unless have give way signs.
   3. When bypass a road cyclists, decelerate and move towards the middle of the road to make sure the vehicle has sufficient distance to it.
3. Overtaking
   1. Accelerate before changing lanes.
   2. Allows overtake two-wheel motorcycles or mopeds even with overtaking prohibition sign.
   3. Never allowed to cross a solid white or yellow line in any situation.
   4. When the lanes are heading the same direction, the overtaking in the front does not limit your overtaking.
   5. Permited to overtake on the right when: in a traffic jam, when the right lane is moving faster; Vehicle ahead turns left;
   6. On motorway, overtake to the right is not allowed.
   7. Overtaking over a cyclist, there must be enough space in between so that the air flow does not grab the cyclist.
   8. Route sign for detour (车辆改道) indicates there is an intersection ahead.
4. Speed limit
   1. Pedestrain zone: 20km/h。
   2. Populated area, general speed limit is 50 km/h.
   3. Outside populated areas, speed limit is 80 km/h unless traffic signs dictate.
5. Towing a trailer
   1. Snow tires are mandatory in trailer if mass (total mass) is 750-3500kg, speed imit is 80 km/h
   2. Lightweight trailer (trailer mass <750kg) speed limit is 100 km/h,
   3. Use plug to connect trailer for rear lights, etc. Check function correctly.
   4. Load trailer so the center of mass is on the axle. Rear-heavy and front-heavy trailer causes manueuvrability issue;
   5. Load must not exceed the trailer’s front edge by one meter, nor the back edge by more than two meters. Any extension exceeding one meter must be marked with a red flag. If it’s dark, the extended load must be marked with lights and reflectors of correspoinding colors.
   6. Load must not be wider than the vehicle’s body,
   7. From the trailer’s technical section of registraion certificate, people know if it is allowed to be connected.
   8. All trailers must equip with lights.
6. Towing a vehicle
   1. Towing rope is 3-6 meters, warning flag at midpoint.
   2. Top speed is 60 km/h.
7. B license allows to drive:
   1. Vehicles total mass 3500 kg, max 8 passengers in addition to driver.
   2. Combination vehicle, the total mass of the towed vehicle < 750 kg.
   3. combination vehicle towed vehicle mass > 750 but the total mass < 3500.
   4. Van, moped, quadrimobile, tractor, and snowmobile.
8. Risk
   1. Wet clothes can cause foggy windows.
   2. Black ice: Thin ice coating, does not look icy but merely wet.
   3. If a vehicle has stopped in front of a pedestrian crossing or is blocking the view, you must stop before the crossing.
   4. Its not mandatory to stop before pedestrian crossing if there is a raiesd platform or an empty lane between two vehicles.
   5. Big red triangle at back of vehicle indicate the vehicle moves slowly
   6. Child in backseat risk: I might feel the urge to take glances and reach to the backseat while driving.
   7. In a heavy rain, the rear fog light can be turned on to remedy poor visibility from the behind.
9. Parking
   1. In urban, park on inside the population center area, cannot be parked outside of street lane.
   2. Parking disk set to next half or full hour.
   3. Parking sign, black numbers applies to weekdays, black numbers in parentheses are used to a normal Saturday. Red numbers are used for Sundays and other holidays.
   4. Parking in the intersection is prohibited. Minimum distance between a parked car and a intersection is 5 meters.
   5. In resident area, parking is progibited outside of the marked parking spaces.
   6. At railroad crossings, parking should exceed 30m to it.
   7. In populated areas, vehicles must be parked on the roadway or in a designated parking area; Outside populated areas, parking on the roadway is not allowed, must park vehicle completely on the shouder.
10. Bus
    1. Bus lane is legal to use when grouping in order to turn.
    2. Must give way to a bus leaving a stop when the speed limit on the road is no more than 60 km/h
    3. At bus stop is permitted to pick up or drop off a passenger.
11. Tram
    1. Tram rails if not marked as a tram lane by a sign, just a normal lane that can drive normally.
    2. Tram lane with sign must not be used in any case. Must not use a tram lane for aligning or tunrning. cannot be use in any case.
    3. Tram has the right of way in intersections only if no limited with any traffic signs.
12. Motorway and motor-traffic way
    1. Motorway: for fast-moving motor vehicle traffic. Different directions are physically separated, does not cross at the same level with other transport routes.
    2. Motorway has two roadways.
    3. Motor traffic way can have a single roadway, with a median line separating the two lanes.
    4. Motor and motor-traffic way: no U turns, reversing, overtaking from right, standing, parking.
13. Stopping distance
    1. Stopping distance = reaction distance + braking distance
    2. Reaction time is 1-2 s.
    3. Braking distance is quadrupled is speed doubles. Reaction distance is directly related to your speed.
14. Safety distance
    1. On roadways, must maintain a minimum of four seconds’ safety distance.
    2. One general rule: current speed is equals the safety distance in meters.
15. Yielding
    1. At an intersection, the vehicle making a turn must yield all oncoming traffic.
    2. Always yield a tram in an equal intersection.
    3. Yield to a bus that is pulling out from bus stop when speed limit is 60 km/h.
16. Alcohol
    1. Drunk-driving limit is a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.5 per mille (g/l).
    2. Dissolve time for 70kg person: 2 hours.
    3. Bllod alcohol level of 0.5 permillage or more is guilty of driving under the influence.
    4. One small can of beer or cider takes about 2.5 hours to burn off. 3 cans take close to 8 hours.
17. Dash
    1. Red battery symbol: malfunction in battery charging system.
18. Economical driving
    1. Drive on the highest suitable gear.
    2. Engine braking is an effective and economical way of decelerating.
19. Tires
    1. Summer tires, minimum depth of tread is 1.5 mm, recommended depth is 4 mm.
    2. Summer tires, less than 3 mm increases the risk of aquaplaning significantly.
    3. Winter tires, mimum depth of treads is 3 mm. recommended depth is 6 mm.
    4. Winter tires, hyroplaning risk increases significantly at depth of 4 mm.
    5. When tire is low air pressure, it wears out fast and gets hot easily.
    6. If wheelset includes different conditions tires, should put the better condition wheels to the back, to prevent side slip.
20. Other
    1. Red jumper cable between plus posts on batteries, Black cable from subsidiary battery’s minu-pole to your car egine’s frame.
    2. Have sturdy net between a cargo space and the passenger space when dogs are transported: Dogs won’t come over the passengers in a collision.
    3. After heavy rain, risk: Other cars can splash water, cause a sudden visibility block.
    4. Do not touch the bulb with bare hands as the grease sticking to its surface may break the bulb when it heats up.
    5. If red and yellow lights are lit simultaneously, it means that the light is about to turn green.
    6. Vehicle insurance is mandatory for every motorized vehicle, and you must acquire one within seven days of change of ownership. Insurance cover all personal injuries and the material damages for the innocent party.
    7. A heater makes cleaning the windows easier and allows to drive without a thick coat under the seat belt.
    8. How decrease the amount of harmful particles in the exhaust, by preheating the motor in cold weather.
    9. Which areas are traffic laws inapplicable: Areas that are closed to general traffic.
    10. When turning onto a side road, steps are indicate, aligh the vehicle, and reduce speed.
    11. Police is showing the red light, pull over at the first possible location
21. Signs:
    1. No entry: one yellow horizontal line with red round board
    2. One-way sign
    3. The small downward arrow sign under a no parking sign indicate no parking ends here.
    4. Parking prohibited zone
    5. Parking prohibited: One red slash with blue background round board
    6. Parking and stopping prohibited: Red round cross
    7. Parking prohibited on odd/even days： One or two vertical lines with one slash
    8. Intersection with a minor road
    9. Intersection with equal roads
    10. Pedestrain road; allowed to drive but must yield to all pedestrains.
    11. Yield and stop signs mandate to traffic from left and right.
    12. Regulation ends to the sign
    13. Overtaking is prohibited sign.
    14. Railroad's level-crossing with multiple tracks
    15. Left lane ends
    16. Priority road
    17. no entry for vehicles
    18. Road number is framed by a dash line, means access to the road in question
    19. Blue speed round board: Minimum speed
    20. Population center: yellow rectangle with black city building outline
22. Noun
    1. Adaptive Cruise Control 自动跟车系统
    2. detour 车辆改道
    3. Engine braking: Reducing of speed when you are not giving gas and the gear is on.
    4. Transmission: 传输，传动，变速器
    5. Clutch 离合器