That's funny because on 1 occasion i was a little slow turning right mainly because an oncoming car obviously accelerated. but from the back seat came the voice of my then 8 year old grand daughter-"what are you waiting for an invitation?'
Larger roundabouts it's less likely, but a lot of the roads around home have those relatively small roundabouts where the road itself isn't super-wide and in order to fit footpaths between the road & the fence-lines the roundabouts are tiny (the circle of concrete in the middle is probably about a 3m diameter & even the non-articulated buses need to drive over the top of that circle of concrete).
Which I guess enforces to them their ability to get away with it?100%. I've decided they seem to think the rule is give way to the right. I've also seen a comment from someone on social media who said their driving instructor told them the best thing to do is stop and wait 5 seconds before going onto the roundabout. That driving instructor needs a good paddling.
I'm not sure being at the entrance is important. The rule is give way to traffic on the roundabout. If you are at the entrance, technically you're not on the roundabout.
Actually the rule 30 years ago when I was learning to driving was give way to traffic on the round about. They're just not following the rule, IMO
I don't get how you can just let them go if you're already on the roundabout. They have to give way if you are on the round about. If you haven't entered the round about then they do not have to give way. On a small roundabout where you entered first (and hence they are giving way), I'm not sure how you can just let them go.So when someone comes barrelling into the roundabout at a rate of knots, often only looking to their right because "give way to the right", they can quite easily get really close to running into the side (or rear) of you 'cos you've accelerated from a standstill. Often it's because they want to quickly get onto the roundabout before a stream of traffic from a set of lights up the road on their right.
And if I'm honest, when it happens I do usually just let them go despite having right-of-way, as it's kinda better to avoid a prang if possible.
MS Paint, it makes EVERYTHING better.
Larger roundabouts it's less likely, but a lot of the roads around home have those relatively small roundabouts where the road itself isn't super-wide and in order to fit footpaths between the road & the fence-lines the roundabouts are tiny (the circle of concrete in the middle is probably about a 3m diameter & even the non-articulated buses need to drive over the top of that circle of concrete).
So when someone comes barrelling into the roundabout at a rate of knots, often only looking to their right because "give way to the right", they can quite easily get really close to running into the side (or rear) of you 'cos you've accelerated from a standstill. Often it's because they want to quickly get onto the roundabout before a stream of traffic from a set of lights up the road on their right.
And if I'm honest, when it happens I do usually just let them go despite having right-of-way, as it's kinda better to avoid a prang if possible.
Makes sense now. In your situation, I just go. Have chased down and educated some clown in the "orange car" who got all stroppy about it.MS Paint, it makes EVERYTHING better.
The scenario (and this is a highly detailed image showing a particular intersection) I have in mind is this:
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I'm green, the person in the SUV or dual-cab (it's always an SUV or dual-cab) is in orange. I've stopped or nearly stopped because the vision isn't great & I can only see the orange SUV if I'm right at the intersection, but even if Orange SUV accelerates hard I'm still on the roundabout first. But because Orange SUV is carrying a fair bit of speed, if they don't slow down they can easily hit me.
PS. on the 30 year thing It's probably OVER 30 years ago now I think about it, and I can't recall whether the rules changed before I got my license in 1987 - they may have! But in NSW there was a time when there was a universal rule for intersections without signage or markings that was "give way to the right", before they actually made a rule for roundabouts which was "give way to those on the roundabout" ... the subtle difference does allow better traffic flow if everyone follows the rules. A lot of drivers were taught by their parents who were doing the wrong thing, and heaps of people who started driving WAY after the current rules are Doing It Wrong and don't know they're screwing-up.
Understood. But these are clients in OUR database whom I know and have called previously. And they have called to speak to me when I was occupied.
I dont reward these companies with my foldingP&O Customer support (somewhere in Philippines?)
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Me: I tried to register on your site and it says I have to click on the link to confirm email address but no email received
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"Green Friday" is the new black
Indicating right when passing an exit to reinforce ”not exiting here”, followed by indicating left prior to actual exit, is fine by me.
Or the cyclist on my left who decided it was a good idea to use the shadow cover of a truck next to her who decided to enter the roundabout instead of give way to me, the truck accelerates leaving the cyclist fully exposed to a potential TBone from me. I screeched the breaks so hard all the traffic simply stopped. Britannia roundabout Adelaide.
Yeah … but the law also says not to exceed the randomly-chosen speed limit regardless of whether it’s safer for all parties to do so … where I can get away with it, I’ll do the thing that keeps me & mine undamaged as well as being the best thing for other road users…
Small roundabouts like my bad MS Paint above, that’s the rule.
