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Then one of her BFFs called from the side of the road about a minute into it and she slowly meandered off of the road. We tried slowly driving around the sheep, but she was resolved that this day-this very evening-was going to be her last day of existence. We stopped about 2 meters in front of that gal and we waited. Then, we approached a hill at 93 kph, two sheep scattered off into the darkness and one remained with the resolve of a deeply-depressed sheep who had lost everything and had nothing else to lose. We were 10 days into our trip without so much as a close encounter with a sheep in the road. The legends of suicidal sheep in the roads are real. Google didn't show any speed cameras and the locals seemed to know what they were doing and where they were going. The advice on 5 kph over the limit is pretty sound, though we sped through plenty of areas in Reykjavik to keep with the flow of traffic with no consequence.
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ProTip: You should definitely download the offline version of Iceland's Google Maps for GPSing on your phone, and so long as you've got internet with your mobile carrier, or you've rented a mobile WiFi modem to which you can connect lots of WiFi devices, Google will tell you precisely where the upcoming traffic cameras are located in plenty of time to slow down. Meh, they're in some places but they're not everywhere. Someone mentioned speed cameras everywhere. If you're constantly being overtaken, or conversely if you feel you're always seemingly overtaking others with some frequency, use the GPS as a metric to see if your speedometer is being useless. So, be prepared to gauge your speed based on your GPS in some cases where the speedometer is uselessly miscalibrated. Our rental SUV was off and under by 7 kph (so instead of 90 kph, we were driving 83 kph), and we would've never known had we not had several data points for comparison i.e., three separate phones with GPS pegging us precisely 7 kph under the reading of the rental car's speedometer. ProTip: It's likely that the speedometer of your rental car isn't correctly calibrated for whatever reasons (there are too many to enumerate). Google maps gives you a big heads-up when a speed camera is coming up (more on that below).
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Otherwise, you're not just being an annoying driver, you're also causing potentially unsafe driving conditions i.e., lots of drivers will be overtaking you when they shouldn't have to.
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That's typically the speed limit plus a few kph. Yeah I’ll be using cruise control and putting myself a little under the speed limit just to be extra careful I mean, it was fun just sharing the main roadways with tractors throughout the country, but in the city on the highways, it's just absolutely hilarious from an American perspective. That's a thing, and I think it's hilarious. So, probably plan to be in an inner lane for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th exits so you don't have to constantly be wondering if the car to your left is about to clobber you on each exit.Īlso, in Reykjavik, there are certain times of the day when the tractors get to share the highway with you.
Like someone else mentioned, on dual lane roundabouts, the outer lane YIELDS to the inner lane. I was raised in a small town, and driving is very different in those towns compared to larger cities, especially foreign larger cities like Reykjavik with highways clustered with roundabouts. Is Reykjavik hectic to drive in if you come from a small town? If you can't see one meter in front of your car, expect that the other drivers can't see one meter in front of their cars either. So, plan to adjust driving speeds accordingly, even if it means driving 5 kph. This happened once while we were there-around 10 minutes of pure deluge. Hrm, and also those moments when Iceland drops rain as if you were driving under Detifoss. So, take some bridges (and roads) slow, as if you're anticipating a head-on collision with conditions where visibility is only a few feet in front of the car. The paradoxical downside is that there are single lane bridges where it's damn-near impossible to see if there's anyone on the other side. The first car to their respective line gets to go over the bridge first. Noteworthy is The Single Lane Bridge Game: Each side of the bridge has speed limits that slow you down progressively until you reach a certain line in front of the bridge. Also, YouTube is helpful (just search and some talking heads will give a few tips on driving in Iceland).
Take a little bit of time to read and test your skills from this link, this link, and this link. Traffic laws? Any tips for someone coming from America? Been doing my best to research any traffic laws like finding out that headlights must always be on and you cannot turn right on a red light. We just finished three weeks and 3,000 miles of driving in Iceland.
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