rule of the road

== English == === Noun === rule of the road (plural rules of the road) Any of the requirements for how drivers, bicyclists, etc, behave and operate while using public roadways. (with the) The regulation requiring all traffic (travelling on a road or otherwise) to keep either to the left or the right. 1986, New Scientist (volume 112, numbers 1540-1541, December 1986-January 1987) The Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first steam-operated passenger railway, which opened in 1830, adopted the British rule of the road, with trains passing each other on the left. (with the) (nautical) A regulation concerning safe handling of vessels on roadsteads, seaways, sea lanes, etc. Coordinate term: law of the sea (figurative, countable) A basic (fundamental) and general requirement or principle for how to operate or behave in a certain context or domain (for example, an industry, an occupation, a company, an association). ==== Translations ====