That fucking sneaky give way rule

[schrodingers cat]

I struggle a bit with the stop rule that says you must come to a complete halt. While we're busy re-writing the give way rule that you don't get can we change this too?
Anybody else want anything changed?

Whats the world coming to if one can't be right all the time?

[mashman]

Whats the world coming to if one can't be right all the time?

Then you'll just have to accept that you're half left also ...

[Laava]

Get three females at an unmarked intersection and watch them all sit there giggling.

I like it when their boosies jiggle!

[Ixion]

Why is it sneaky? It's been that way since at least 1936. Plenty of time for people to notice it I would have thought.

[bogan]

Why is it sneaky? It's been that way since at least 1936. Plenty of time for people to notice it I would have thought.

exactly, and thats why its sneaky, fuck all people seem to have noticed, cos fuck all people obey it. And I used to find it way easier just to go (from lhs of T) instead of waiting and gesturing for ages till they utilised their right of way, somewhere in between its become force of habit and i just assumed i did have right of way, I'll remember bout it now, thought this thread may remind others of it too.

[Devil]

I struggle a bit with the stop rule that says you must come to a complete halt.

Forgive me if I haven't detected any sarcasm or other subtlety, but I didn't think the term 'Stop' was ambiguous in any way shape or form.

[bogan]

Forgive me if I haven't detected any sarcasm or other subtlety, but I didn't think the term 'Stop' was ambiguous in any way shape or form.

really? my sarcasm-o-meter was getting some pretty high readings

[schrodingers cat]

Forgive me if I haven't detected any sarcasm or other subtlety, but I didn't think the term 'Stop' was ambiguous in any way shape or form.

Here in Christchurch semantics are as fluid as our understanding of what various lights mean. Red is simply a more serious orange and you should hurry along.

ps - your sarcasm detector needs new batteries...

[grusomhat]

The best bit is when the dopey bugger waves "thanks" at you, as though you gave way out of the kindness of your heart.

Eh, I do that to say thank you for actually knowing the road rules.

[Devil]

Here in Christchurch semantics are as fluid as our understanding of what various lights mean. Red is simply a more serious orange and you should hurry along.

ps - your sarcasm detector needs new batteries...

*sigh*
I was afraid you'd say that.
/needs more beer.

[Max Preload]

If it's changed the people who know the correct way already will still get ignored by the fuckwits who don't simply because the fuckwits will have heard it's changed and will then do the opposite of what they've always done and as a result THEY'LL STILL BE DOING IT FUCKING WRONG!

[bogan]

If it's changed the people who know the correct way already will still get ignored by the fuckwits who don't simply because the fuckwits will have heard it's changed and will then do the opposite of what they've always done and as a result THEY'LL STILL BE DOING IT FUCKING WRONG!

yeh but once the rule has changed there be less of them doing it wrong!

[Ixion]

They'll be wrong just as often as theya re now. You assume that the people who "get it wrong" now do so because theya re confused, and conscientiously following an incorrect interpretation fo the rules. No such thing. They have no consistent rule at all.

[bogan]

They'll be wrong just as often as theya re now. You assume that the people who "get it wrong" now do so because theya re confused, and conscientiously following an incorrect interpretation fo the rules. No such thing. They have no consistent rule at all.

I'm assuming that the 90% or more of drivers who i see giving way to thier left when on the stem will continue to do so after the change, so yeh, obviously with that assumption less will get it wrong. Though people in other parts of the country may be more aware of the rule than they are here?

[Sentox]

When you boil it down, it's just give way to traffic from your right, which is drummed into everyone enough. I think the confusion arises because the vast majority of T-intersections are controlled, to the point that it becomes habit.