Traffic Logic

This page is designed to help you appreciate the logic of traffic rules. Once you know why (your safety, usually), and you know how, you would be able to navigate traffic as a pedestrian; and as a driver, you would be better placed to drive safely, and with confidence.

(Rules covered here are based on traffic laws in India, but most of the logic is common across the world. Just keep left/right conventions in mind when using these in other countries).

Sub-pages

Keep left

Where do pedestrians walk?

Pedestrians crossing the road

Zebra crossings

Overtaking

Turn indicators

Roundabouts (traffic circles)

Turn indicators and roundabouts

Give way/Yield

Who should give way to whom?

The STOP line

Horns and Silence zones

Driving at intersections

Speed Limits

Speed limits in special zones

Mobiles (cellphones) and driving

Traffic lights - red and green

Traffic lights - amber

Traffic lights - flashing

Emergency vehicles

Non-emergency vehicles and sirens

One way roads

Shortcuts on the wrong side of the road

Intersections and U-turns

Headlights on low beam

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