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If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
You'd think so, wouldn't you? People can't cope with the current, very simple rule, so how could they cope with something (slightly) more complicated? And yet before the simpler road rule was introduced in the late 70s, the rule for two right-turning vehicles was "Courtesy prevails". (Really!) And people consistently interpreted that to mean that the traffic in the side road gave way. And now, after 30 years, about 75% of the driving population still drive as if this were the case, even though the current, very simple, very clear rule states it's not. It's almost enough to make one reexamine one's assumptions, isn't it?
Back in the 70s, New South Wales had an even simpler rule than ours: give way to the right. Never mind who's turning and who's going straight ahead, just give way to the right. That was a very simple rule, so it must have been a very good rule, right? It wasn't. I visited Sydney as a teenager. I was just learning to drive in NZ, but thankfully I didn't drive in Sydney. I lost count of the number of times I was in a car going along a straight road, when there was a flash from the right, a screech of tyres and a curse from the driver. A local explained the reasoning behind the rule to me, "At least you always know who's in the wrong when there's a crash: the one with the dent in the right-hand door." "Er, but," I said, "don't you have more crashes?" "Well, yes."
I'll make my message simple:
Simple does not always mean good.
Then we can have a go at this
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Courtesy and actual thinking is a thing of the past. If it hasn't been legislated out of existence, the ME generation have lost it somewhere along the line.
No
Not when it removes the need to think. But since that's been dealt to ^, then there is no alternative.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Yes, but (as I said before) I think the relevant question for the application of the give way rules is not, "Is this driveway/entranceway/whatever a road?" but "Is the place where it joins a road an intersection?". The Road Code says it is for public entrances and (I forget the rest).
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