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This traffic sign is only available 13 times in Germany – do you know the meaning?
Germany is known as a sign forest – and most traffic signs can be learned in the driving school. However, there are rare exceptions that cause questions when driving past.
The rarest traffic sign in Germany is only 13 times – and even on about 140 kilometers of motorway north of Munich. No wonder that hardly anyone knows the sign and its meaning. Especially for tourists who are on the A9 between Pfaffenhofen and Kreuz Holledau, the question quickly arises how to behave correctly.
The answer: you can ignore it. This is rare in the road traffic regulations, but it happens. Because the so -called landmark signs, which have been set up with a distance of 2.5 kilometers along the A9, indicate no restriction or rule.
The signs with the black and white pattern are part of the “Digital test fields motorway” (DTA), which was set up in 2016. The pictogram serves autonomous cars that are tested there for orientation. The cameras of the vehicles can determine their position with the help of the landmark signs.
In 2016, when the signs were introduced, the then Federal Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt said: “Automated and networked vehicles control the road highly precisely. Together with the latest sensors and a centimeter -precise digital map, the new signs are another component on the way to the first fully digitized and fully networked street.”
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No, this sign does not mean that drunk drivers are often traveling on this street – it indicates that the road can be slippery when wet.
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The Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport and the Federal Street (BAST) Federal Institute for Roads are dedicated to the test fields. Including one who can be seen where there is research projects such as the DTA – currently in August 2021. There is talk of 26 test fields and 142 projects in the federal territory.
The “Digital test field Autobahn” is used
The “Digital test field Autobahn” Is the ministry as “Technology -open offer for industry and research” Advertised. According to its information, it has been “Germ cell established for future developments”. In one that commissioned the bast last year, the DTA was seen as a success.
Source: Stern
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