Can you pass Amanda’s driving test?

Wear your seatbelt, no drink driving, stick to the speed limit - these are all rules we all know and have to follow to drive on the road legally. But do you know some of our more obscure ones? Take our driving test and find out.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
You cannot be drunk in charge of a horse on
a highway. Certainly one of the golden rules of the
Road Safety Act.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Thanks former Victoria Police detective Bruce Harwood. A good one
for us all to remember. In a country as big
as Australia, we do a lot of driving between us,
about six hundred and ninety eight million kilometers every day.
I wonder I'm exhausted. Keeping us moving requires quite a
few rules. And if you're one of the drivers on

(00:29):
our Rossie roads, maybe you think you know them all.
Let's find out. I'm Amanda Keller doing a three point
turn to bring you brain fuel. Great Ozzie stories from
the road, fueled by Ampole Australia's own. Question one, how
old do you have to be to be a passenger

(00:50):
on a motorbike? That's right, eight years old. Babies aren't
allowed to ride motorcycles, even if they have really cute
leather jackets. On question two, if your indicators broken, how
are you required to signal to other drivers?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
The metal arm used to pull the leader inside the truck,
and the arm would swing out from the truck, indicating
returning to the right.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
These days, a real arm will do straight out for
turning right up for stopping turning left. Well, hope for
the best. Question three when were speed limits introduced? There
were no speed limits in Victoria until after the First

(01:40):
World War. Luckily, most cars built before nineteen eighteen couldn't
travel that fast, not because they were slow, but because
the roads were so bad. If you see a car
spot fifty meters behind you, can you reverse all the
way back to it? After all, your technically still parallel parking.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, well, i'd suggest now you look for another car
park in all honesty YEP.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Regulation two nine six of the Australian Road Rules states
it's an offence for a driver of a vehicle to
reverse further than is reasonable in the circumstances. It's unclear
if the definition changes if your kids are fighting in
the back of the car. Question five. Can your dad
legally do a funny horn toot when he's saying goodbye? No,

(02:34):
it's against the law to use your horn unnecessarily, even
if you're doing it in a nice way.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's designed to warn people if there's a danger imminent.
But yeah, others like to use it as a bit
of how you're going too. Others like to let you
know they're not happy with you and give you the
big long honk.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Ah, the long honk how well I know thee And finally,
question six, how many potatoes are you allowed to carry
in your car in Western Australia unless you're a.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Member of a potato corporation and who isn't It's no
more than fifty kilograms. This one applies out of the
car too, so don't get caught walking along the street
with them either.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
So how'd you go? Did you get six out of six? Well,
you're ready to head back out there.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
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I'm Amanda Keller and this is brain Fuel.