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In road transport, a YIELD (Canada, Ireland, and the United States) or GIVE WAY (most current or former Commonwealth countries) traffic sign indicates that a vehicle driver must slow down and prepare to stop if necessary — usually while merging into traffic on another road — but needn't stop if there is no reason to do so. A driver who stops in this situation is said to have yielded the right of way to traffic on the main road. In contrast, a stop sign always requires a full stop. The first YIELD sign was installed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, having been devised and designed by Tulsan police officer Clinton Riggs.¹²³

According to the Federal Highway Administration's (U.S.) Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a YIELD sign may be warranted: ⁴

1. On the approaches to a through street or highway where conditions are such that a stop is not always required.
2. At the second crossroad of a divided highway, where the median width at the intersection is 9 m or greater. In this case, a STOP or YIELD sign may be installed at the entrance to the first roadway of a divided highway, and a YIELD sign may be installed at the entrance to the second roadway.
3. On a channelized turn lane that is separated from the adjacent travel lanes by an island, even if the adjacent lanes at the intersection are controlled by a highway traffic control signal or by a STOP sign.
4. At an intersection where a special problem exists and where engineering judgment indicates the problem to be susceptible to correction by the use of the YIELD sign.
5. Facing the entering roadway for a merge-type movement if engineering judgment indicates that control is needed because acceleration geometry and/or sight distance is not adequate for merging traffic operation.

GIVE WAY signs, or the equivalent road markings, are often used at UK road junctions at which stop signs would have been used in the USA.^{citations needed}

Sign used in most of Europe, Canada, Israel and Chile	Sign used in Sweden, Serbia, Croatia, Finland, and Poland	Spanish sign with and without legend
Sign used in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Singapore	Australian sign at a roundabout	Sign in Hong Kong
"Give Way" sign in Irish.	U.S. sign	Taiwanese sign in traditional Chinese
Taiwanese supplemental plate in English	Old U.S. embossed yellow sign in rural Vermont

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External links

• Gallery of Stop and Yield Signs

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