What are the traffic police hand signals for Subject One?
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Subject One traffic police hand signals include: Stop signal: The traffic police officer extends their left arm forward and upward, palm facing forward, indicating vehicles in the direction the officer is facing to stop. Go straight signal: The traffic police officer extends the left arm horizontally while turning the head to the left, palm facing forward; simultaneously extends the right arm horizontally while turning the head to the right, palm facing forward, and swings it to the left, indicating vehicles on the right to proceed straight. Right turn signal: The traffic police officer extends the left arm forward, palm facing forward, indicating vehicles directly ahead to stop; then turns the head to the right, with the right arm and palm swinging straight to the left front, palm facing left, indicating vehicles to make a right turn. Left turn waiting signal: The traffic police officer extends the left arm downward, palm facing down; turns the head to the left, while the left arm and palm swing straight downward, indicating vehicles on the left side to enter the intersection, approach the center of the intersection along the left turn direction, and wait for the left turn signal.
When I was taking my driver's license test, the most headache-inducing part of Subject 1 was the traffic police hand signals. There were mainly eight to memorize: the stop signal is like the traffic police raising their left hand to block the front of the car; the go straight signal is when both arms are extended and the right arm swings to the left; for a left turn, the traffic police will raise their right hand horizontally and swing their left hand left and right to indicate the direction; the right turn is the opposite, with the left hand extended and the right hand swinging. There are also signals for waiting to turn left, changing lanes, and slowing down, such as the slow-down signal where the right arm swings diagonally downward, as if telling you to drive slower. During the test, I always mixed up the left turn waiting signal with the right turn signal. Later, I realized that the waiting to turn signal involves the left arm swinging diagonally downward, which is completely different from the angle of the turning signals.
