New dictionary revealed for Aussie drivers

Having bother deciphering what different drivers try to inform you? Or are your indicators being misinterpreted when out on the highway?

Following a nationwide survey of highway customers, a brand new dictionary has been launched displaying the most typical understandings of every sign – with the concept to assist standardise an Australian highway language.

In line with Continental – tyre producer and the writer of the Code of the Highway – greater than half of Australians are expressive on the highway, utilizing a mix of hand indicators, lights, and well mannered horn honks to speak.

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However whereas 72 per cent of these will use a honk to immediate somebody sitting forward of them at a inexperienced gentle, the examine discovered that these on the receiving finish can contemplate it useful or aggressive, or might fully misinterpret the intention.

“There’s clearly quite a lot of goodwill on the highway, however we’re not at all times talking the identical language,” Continental Tyres Australia managing director Mitchell Golledge stated on the announcement of the dictionary.

“The Continental Code of the Highway Dictionary is about bringing some readability to the small moments behind the wheel that may really make a giant distinction.”