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Your road currently has a 50 km/h limit. A 70 km/h sign is ahead. Assuming your vehicle has no lower limit and conditions are safe, when may you begin accelerating above 50 km/h?

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A higher posted limit is permission up to a maximum, not a requirement to accelerate. Lower vehicle limits and unsafe weather, traffic or road conditions still govern your speed.

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