Roundabout argument help!

[Spazm]

Quoted from: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/roadcode/abo...undabouts.html

When coming up to a multi-laned roundabout:

•try to get into the correct lane
•give way to all vehicles that will cross your path from your right as you enter the roundabout.


1, If you are turning left at the first exit of a roundabout:

•signal left as you come up to the roundabout.

2, If you are going 'straight' through a roundabout:

•don't signal as you come up to the roundabout
•signal left as you pass the exit before the one you wish to take. At some small roundabouts it may not be possible to give three seconds warning, but it is courteous to give as much indication as you can.

3, If you are travelling more than halfway around a roundabout:

•signal right as you come up to the roundabout
•signal left as you pass the exit before the one you wish to take.


That roundabout is a bit tricky as it could be interpreted at the time of approach to it that the exit you wanted is straight ahead.. if you take some time to study it with google earth it appears to be more than halfway round

Had you hit the other car.. I think they would get the infringment notice for failure to give way and you would be told to be careful at roundabouts and maybe lectured on indicator usage just for good measure..

[Skyryder]

The argument is this.
GF thinks i should indicate right and then left.
I think i only have to indicate left as i am heading straight through.

Mates think i am right Mum agrees with the GF. Its silly but someone needs to win this.

Both woman are wrong. Indicate right if turning right and exiting from a right hand turn. So many think as both your mum and girlfriend do.

Otherwise indicate as you exit the roundabout. Dumb rule I know, simple as, yet so many don't know and get it wrong.


Skyryder

[Bend-it]

Tell both women to shut up, cook some eggs and leave the driving to you.

They're both wrong. You were right.

:P

[Winston001]

FFS they're indicators to "indicate" what you're doing so we don't have to be mind readers.

And there it is in a nutshell. :



I indicate for Africa, just in case.....

[Indiana_Jones]

why was she not in the kitchen?

or do you have a kitchen on your car? nice

-Indy

[spookytooth]

If two women agree that you are wrong then its a sure bet you'r right

[Bend-it]

I indicate for Africa, just in case.....

Approaching a roundabout northbound, that's left then eh?

If two women agree that you are wrong then its a sure bet you'r right

Because 2 wrongs don't make a right!

[icekiwi]

You need to learn that your girlfriend is always right.

Including this time....

LOL...what he said...

[Indiana_Jones]

She was mistaken, even if she was right

....correct her....

-Indy

[pzkpfw]

You are in the roundabout. You only need to indicate your exit when you are going 'straight' through. ... If you are turning right at a roundabout then you indicate right. So many people get this wrong at roundabouts!

No!

No. No. No.

You still indicate your exit (with left indicator) when you exit, when turning right.

If you keep your right indicator on, a person at the next exit around may think you are continuing, and give way to you when they don't need to. Same as someone turning left who doesn't indicate at all, so you give way thinking they might go "straight". Damn that pisses me off.

See: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/roadcode/abo...undabouts.html

If you are travelling more than halfway around a roundabout:

* signal right as you come up to the roundabout
* signal left as you pass the exit before the one you wish to take.

From: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/overseasdriv...oad-rules.html

[Ragingrob]

No!

No. No. No.

You still indicate your exit (with left indicator) when you exit, when turning right.

If you keep your right indicator on, a person at the next exit around may think you are continuing, and give way to you when they don't need to. Same as someone turning left who doesn't indicate at all, so you give way thinking they might go "straight". Damn that pisses me off.

See: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/roadcode/abo...undabouts.html



From: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/overseasdriv...oad-rules.html

Hmmm text ambiguity perhaps...

You only need to indicate your exit when you are going 'straight' through....

Does the 'only' relate to 'going straight through', as you've taken it?

Or does the 'only' relate to 'indicate your exit'?

Because if she was meaning "you only need to indicate your exit when you are going straight through", then you guys are on the same track to begin with.

[pzkpfw]

Because if she was meaning "you only need to indicate your exit when you are going straight through", then you guys are on the same track to begin with.

Ah, good point. As in she meant "if you are going 'straight through' you only indicate your exit", and didn't mean "you only indicate your exit if you are going 'straight through'".

I would stand corrected.

[Jonno.]

As long as you indicate to exit, a few degrees is just being silly. She didn't give way, period.

[pzkpfw]

Does it matter why she didn't give way?