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See the sign examples above. Paying for Gasoline Benzin At autobahn and other gas stations, you pump gas or diesel and then go inside to pay the cashier. The cashier will ask for your pump number You do know your German numbers up to 10, right?

You can pay cash or use a credit card. Some stations require pre-payment during late hours, but usually you pay after you pump. Non-autobahn stations in Germany may or may not accept card payment.

Look for the usual credit card logos at the door or by the register. The EC card is not a credit card; it is a bank debit card for European residents only. Credit card readers at the pump pay-at-the-pump seem to be a thing of the past in Germany. I never found one on my last trip.

I always had to go inside and pay the cashier, whether cash or credit. Next Autobahn Tolls. You must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

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Speed limit. Here are some of the most popular as well as potentially confusing road signs in Germany. This is obviously not an exhaustive list, so if you would like to see all the roadsigns in Germany I highly recommend taking a look , here is a good source.

The alcohol tolerance for driving is probably one of the most strict of the German driving laws rightfully so. Germans take driving as a privilege, not a right, and to drive after even having one beer, is jeopardizing your life and everyone else on the road with you.

Currently, the limit of alcohol is. What does that translate to? For many people, that is actually just one normal German sized beer the beer here is strong! In the US, this is so second hand nature, but in Germany, unless otherwise rarely noted, then you may NOT turn right on red lights. I know I mentioned this previously in the Autobahn section but it is that important in Germany.

Everywhere else it is just common courtesy. This one takes some major awareness and getting used to. If you see a white diamond with a yellow diamond on the inside that means you are on a priority road and do not need to yield. So, without the priority sign, at an intersection, you must yield to the car on the right.

This can be hard to remember and confusing at times, so always be on the lookout. There are plenty of roundabouts in Germany and I remember being equally terrified of these as I was of the Autobahn at first. When approaching the roundabout, you must yield to traffic already in the circle. When exiting the circle, use your blinker to indicate your exit.

No, you get a bright camera bulb flash right at your beautiful face and license plate number so that they have clear evidence. On your car, you will see a colored circle sticker in the corner with a number inside it.

Some bigger cities will have a Green Zone law, limiting vehicles to ones with the number 1. Along the Autobahn, there are countless gas stations that you can stop at many that are accompanied by some fantastic restaurants or even playgrounds for kids! For many people coming from the US, we are taken back by the number of pedestrians and cyclists in German cities. Germans are rule followers, so most likely, the pedestrians will wait patiently at the stoplights until they get the green walking man, but you still need to be very mindful when driving and always on the lookout for walkers.

Another thing to be particularly aware of is cyclists. Around two-thirds of the globe drives on the right side of the road.

So how did those other countries wind up going the other way? Well, it turns out that driving on the left came first! Image courtesy of ThingLink. We all know how annoying it is to mount a horse with a sword in your sheath. These are a few of the hypotheses by historians who try to figure out why Romans initially road on the left side of the road. One fun fact: this is reflected in staircases from the Middle Ages as well!

They spiral in the clockwise direction going upward to allow defenders at the top to attack while preventing right-handed attackers from drawing their swords as they ascended.

A map where red countries drive on the right and blue countries drive on the left. Courtesy of Wikipedia. After the Middle Ages, European countries like France and England started to make their own choice about which side of the road to prefer. England was the first nation to pass an official rule, in , which made driving on the left the law.

Europe generally drives on the right hand side apart from Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom. Guyana and Suriname are the only countries in South America to drive on the left.

If you plan to rent a car in the UK or any other country that drives on the left and you usually drive on the right, you should take extreme care for the first few miles until comfortable with driving on the other side fo the road.

About two thirds of the countries in the world drive on the right including the USA, China and Russia. Canada used to drive on the left but changed to the right to make border crossings with the United States of America more manageable. The reasons for driving on different sides of the road are historical. British horse riders used to ride on the left hand side of the road, thus keeping their right arm free to offer greetings to passersby or draw their sword.

But in the USA Teamsters who drove animals used to sit on the left hand horse while driving a wagon and therefore keep their right hand free for whipping the other horses. In order to avoid collisions they decided to start driving on the right so that they could see the passing wheels of other wagons.

See the table and image below for a full list of countries that drive on the left or our full size map here. Send to friend. Please enter email address. Please enter an email address. Please enter some message text. Handy Guides. And why do countries differ? It's the right, if you didn't know.

Virgin Islands St. Thomas, St.. John, St. Croix in the Caribbean do drive on the left side. Kitts, Nevis, Dominica etc. The geographical information was correct, albeit lacking quite a few countries, the terms we swapped.

Although that is the case.