How can you maintain a proper course when driving on an express road in thick fog?
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Correct answer
A. By following road markings designating the lanes.
Explanation
In the photo, the expressway is covered in thick fog - you can see only a short piece of the roadway in front of the bonnet. In such conditions, you keep the correct path by watching the road markings that mark the lanes, that is, the lines on the roadway just in front of the bonnet - answer A. They are close, so you can see them even in fog, and they guide you exactly along the middle of the lane.
Road signs (B) stand at the side and appear out of the fog too late for you to steer the car by them. Satellite navigation (C) does not see lanes or obstacles. In conditions of reduced visibility, the Road Traffic Act requires you to exercise particular caution and to switch on dipped headlights or front fog lights, and when visibility is below 50 m it allows you to switch on the rear fog lights. On top of that, you slow down so that you can stop within the distance you can see.
Legal basis: Art. 30 para. 1 point 1 and para. 3 and Art. 19 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)