PassRank Istanbul – Türkiye Drive it in 3D.

How the simulator plays Istanbul

Each drive is built from OpenStreetMap: the roads within a few hundred metres of the route, the buildings, lanes, traffic lights, crossings and the speed limit on every street. The simulator switches to right-hand traffic and km/h by itself.

Free drives that start in Istanbul run in city traffic: nearly twice as many cars around you as on a UK test route, shorter gaps in every queue, drivers who sound the horn a second or two after you hesitate, and yellow taxis among them.

Signal for every turn, keep to the limit and take the right lane at each junction, and the drive is marked like a driving test at the end. Press Watch it first to see the route driven for you.

Before you drive in Istanbul

• Traffic drives on the right and limits are in km/h: 50 km/h in town unless a sign says otherwise.
• The Bosphorus bridges are toll roads paid electronically with an HGS tag; check that a rental car has one.
• Expect buses and minibuses to pull in and out of stops without much warning, and give way to trams in the old city.
• Plan around the morning and evening rush hours, when the bridges and the main avenues slow to a crawl.
• The emergency number is 112.