According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration: Safety is up to you. Designing highways with signs signals and markings can only do so much to ensure safety. But in the end, safety is the responsibility of every driver.

Safety is the goal of all the signs, signals and roadway markings discussed in this lesson. It is essencial that drivers cooperate when lane changing, merging, exiting, turning and many other situations they come across. We must all share the road and cooperating is one of the main keys to safety.

 

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For your safety and the safety of others, "read" what all traffic control devices - road signs, signals, and pavement markings - are telling you. They have been placed there for a reason: to help you more safely share the road and stay alive! Now lets get to the signs, signals and roadway markings that all drivers need to get around town or the nation.