Traffic rules and road signs
What this domain tests
You must be able to read a Norwegian junction correctly, choose the right speed and position, and apply the sign hierarchy instead of guessing from how the road looks.
Who gives way
Norway uses a strict hierarchy: police signals override traffic lights, lights override signs, and signs override the general rules. Where nothing is signed or signalled, the right-hand rule (høyreregel) applies - you yield to any vehicle approaching from your right. The rule does not help you when you leave a private road, driveway, petrol station or car park, or a road marked with give-way lines: there you yield to everyone. Turning left always means yielding to oncoming traffic.
Speed and position
Built-up areas default to 50 km/h and rural roads to 80 km/h, but signs always override the default. Ride in the right-hand lane and keep well right within your lane. Overtake on the left, and never at or immediately before a pedestrian crossing, or where visibility or signs forbid it.
Worked example
You ride straight through an unsigned crossroads at 60 km/h. A car approaches from the right and also goes straight. Reasoning: there is no signal and no sign, so the general rule governs - the car comes from your right, so you must give way. You ease off, cover the brakes and let it pass. A give-way sign on your road would give the same result; on a priority road (forkjørsvei, yellow diamond) the car would have to yield instead.
Traps that cost marks
Assuming the wider or busier road has priority. Missing the end-of-priority-road sign, which switches the right-hand rule back on. Waving another driver through when you actually have priority - that creates uncertainty and is itself a fault.