Traffic Rules and Road Signs
What the exam tests
This domain covers the Norwegian Road Traffic Act's core rules: driving on the right, vikeplikt (yielding), forkjørsrett (priority), signs and markings, speed limits and junction behaviour. Questions often present a junction or sign combination and ask who goes first.
Core rules
- Norway drives on the right. The default rule at an unsigned junction is høyreviktsregelen: yield to traffic approaching from your right.
- Signs and markings override the default. A forkjørsvei sign gives you priority until an "end of priority road" sign; a vikeplikt or STOP sign removes it.
- When entering a road from a driveway, car park, petrol station, field or similar, you always yield - even if you are on the right.
- In a roundabout you yield to traffic already circulating; use the indicator when leaving.
- Yield to pedestrians on or stepping onto a fotgjengerfelt (zebra crossing), and to trams where they have priority.
- General limits: 50 km/h in tettbygd strøk (built-up area) and 80 km/h outside, unless signed otherwise; lower limits near schools and housing.
Worked example
You approach a T-junction with no signs. A car comes from your right and another from your left. Who yields? You do, to the car on your right, because høyreviktsregelen applies. The car on your left yields to you. If the junction had a forkjørsvei sign for your road, you would instead have priority over both.
Traps
Assuming the wider or "main" road always has priority; missing the "end of priority road" sign; yielding to the left in an unsigned junction; forgetting the exit indicator in a roundabout.