Here are the most important ones (to me anyway) When on the freeway (usually this means 4 lane superhiways) the left most lane is the 'fast lane'. If people are passing you on the right, then you are going too slow and you should move to the right. Even if you are going well over the speed limit this rule still applies. This is not a law, more of an unwritten rule, and is considered common courtesy. If you are on a 2 lane road (one lane in each direction), and you have 5 or more cars stacked up behind you, you are going too slow, you must pull over and let them pass (I'm talking rural country roads here, not city driving). This is actually the law and you can be cited for failure to pull over. On city streets, when making a right hand turn, even if the light is red you can proceed when safe to do so, after stopping, unless otherwise posted.

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In some states this is not allowed, but here in CA it is, and we get annoyed if you don't go when you should. All other laws are unimportant. I took a quick look a the link above, some good stuff.

Reminded me of a couple more things. The posted speed limit: what this really means to us Californians, it is the minimum speed. Anyone going under the speed limit is going ridiculously slow, and is the subject of foul language and obscene hand gestures Unless in a school zone of course. On the hiway, 99.9% of the time you will not get a ticket if you are driving 5mph over the speed limit. I usually go 10-15 mph over the speed limit. City streets 5-10 over (unless near a school or a cop) He's the deal with turn signals.

Driving is war, and you would never let your enemy know what your plans are in war. Turn signals are kind of the same thing. If you're in fairly heavy traffic, and you signal that you want to change lanes. Your enemy is likely to speed up a little, and narrow the gap in front of him so that you can't slide over into it.

Without the signal, his defenses may slip a little and allow you enough room to change lanes in front of him. Stealth is an advantage, so it would be crazy to signal and give away your intentions. You realize of course that Simbot is posting about turn signals ('He's the deal with turn signals. Driving is war, and you would never let your enemy know what your plans are in war. Turn signals are kind of the same thing.'

) with tongue firmly planted in cheek. It's not at all an unusual practice around here for people who make abrupt unsignaled lane changes to be followed to their destination where their heads are uncermoniously hacked off and placed on a pole at the site of their transgression with their car's turn signal lever stuffed into one ear and one eye propped open and the other closed, all as a warning to others about not using turn signals. It's just one of the ways we maintain decorum and civilized behavior. If you get caught a second time they send you to comedy traffic school, which is a far worse fate. With selective reading you should be able to whip through the CA DMV's California Driver's Handbook and extract the information of interest in less than half an hour. One tip for visitors is that it doesn't matter how spectacular a vista is nor how interest and unique a thing the passenger spotted, DON'T either turn your head to look, nor slow to see it yourself; park somewhere and backtrack.

It's guaranteed that the moment your attention shifts the Schmoo will come popping out from between cars, rocks, or trees, intent on important Schmoo business, and likely to be either flattened or terrified. Either way I get more than mildly irritated as either flat or terrified Schmoos aren't fun to deal with.

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When parking on a curb - facing uphill, point the wheels away from the curb; facing downhill, point the wheels toward the curb. (It's the opposite if there is no curb). ALWAYS set your parking break - even if you are driving an automatic. Juxie writes.Also - the pedestrians ALWAYS have the right away.NEW TO SF FORUMS? MUST READ AND MUST DO LIST. (UPDATED August 2016). WHEN?

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