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| Thread ID: 97360 | 2009-02-13 02:07:00 | Roundabouts signalling | qazwsxokmijn (102) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 747478 | 2009-02-13 09:43:00 | If people used roundabouts properly, traffic flow would be a heck of a lot better than it is with traffic lights (most of which seem to be clockwork, rather than traffic-sensitive). | johcar (6283) | ||
| 747479 | 2009-02-13 09:49:00 | On the North Shore, indicators are used solely to get a warrant of fitness. Outside of the testing stations, if you see someone indicating, it means only that the indicator works. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 747480 | 2009-02-13 10:07:00 | If people can't figure out such a simple concept like indicating at a junction or roundabout, then they shouldn't have a license to drive. Plain and simple. That and things like following distances. So that's about half the population then. |
johnnyfrango (14148) | ||
| 747481 | 2009-02-13 11:12:00 | These are the roundabout rules Sweep www.landtransport.govt.nz | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 747482 | 2009-02-13 11:25:00 | why indicate when going straight, indicate right for right, left for left and none for straight. suppose you could flick on the hazards... | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 747483 | 2009-02-13 18:23:00 | why indicate when going straight, indicate right for right, left for left and none for straight. suppose you could flick on the hazards... Exactly! :thumbs: |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 747484 | 2009-02-13 19:07:00 | why indicate when going straight, indicate right for right, left for left and none for straight. suppose you could flick on the hazards... That thinking just illustrates why many or most people do not signal correctly..... going "straight on" is actually turning left as you leave the roundabout. In the site referenced by robbyp, top picture, if there was a car approaching the island towards the blue car, then if the blue car didn't signal left, the approaching car would be left sitting like a lemon giving way to the blue car on its right, which then turns left. When the blue car is level with the island then it is in virtually the same position as a car that has come round the island from its right. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 747485 | 2009-02-13 19:30:00 | It is the law as shown in the pics on the roadcode at www.landtransport.govt.nz f you are going 'straight' through a roundabout: * signal left as you pass the exit before the one you wish to take. The law is an idiot. If I saw someone signal left at the first exit I would then expect them to turn left. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 747486 | 2009-02-13 19:35:00 | :2cents: They seem to have decided on roundabout rules in a very roundabout way . When they got a roundtuit they ran round in circles and came up with a panelbeater's delight and probably increased the blood pressure medication sales 1000 fold . Some roundabouts are so small they may as well put a walnut in the middle of the intersection and call it a roundabout . At one place I was working our windows looked out at a roundabout that we dubbed the roulette wheel . I've often thought that speed humps before every roundabout might be a good idea . |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 747487 | 2009-02-13 19:35:00 | f you are going 'straight' through a roundabout: * signal left as you pass the exit before the one you wish to take . The law is an idiot . If I saw someone signal left at the first exit I would then expect them to turn left . Great big sigh . . . . . . . . . . "as you pass the exit" how on earth can you turn left into that exit if you are already passing it ?????????? It is not the law that is an idiot . |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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