Does anyone follow this rule?

[spacemonkey]

Also why don't the cops enforce this rule?
Not enough revenue from that fine maybe??

[Berries]

The Rule change is out for consultation right now. Worth objecting if you have a yellow car.

[superman]

How did you pull him over?

Do cops usually pull into carparks/driveways and not stop?

[superman]

Also why don't the cops enforce this rule?
Not enough revenue from that fine maybe??

You have to pay a lot more attention rather than the point and click revenue collection beauty.

[Drew]

It can be entertaining but don't you find it gets old doing this every single time you go near a car park?

I hope that I can write my car off and get paid out for it. So it will never get old.

This 'informal social rule' following bothers me.

People are thinking they no better than the law and making up their own? I will plow straight into anyone who thinks they no better than the law, and get well over my cars real worth as payment for it. Whoever I hit will be liable for that amount.

[Katman]

People are thinking they no better than the law and making up their own? I will plow straight into anyone who thinks they no better than the law, and get well over my cars real worth as payment for it. Whoever I hit will be liable for that amount.

That's an interesting viewpoint Drew and one that I'd not necessarily disagree with but.......

.....you could actually apply that same principle to the car that pulls out on a motorcycle doing 160kph because they consider that if the motorcyclist was doing the speed limit then they would have time to safely do so.

[ducatilover]

Blue car = potential blind spot for fuck witts who cannot use a median strip = more crashes = somehow making that into motorcycle condemning statistics = ACC raise = less registered bikes = more money for big pies = happy Fat Max, it's all his fault.

[Drew]

That's an interesting viewpoint Drew and one that I'd not necessarily disagree with but.......

.....you could actually apply that same principle to the car that pulls out on a motorcycle doing 160kph because they consider that if the motorcyclist had been doing the speed limit then they would have had time to stop.

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

The law is clear, you may only pull out into the flow of traffic once you have made sure there is sufficient room to make the move. If you see someone speeding and then pull out knowing they will have to brake, you are breaking the law.

[Katman]

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

The law is clear, you may only pull out into the flow of traffic once you have made sure there is sufficient room to make the move. If you see someone speeding and then pull out knowing they will have to brake, you are breaking the law.

Fair enough Drew.

I've edited my previous post to make my point a little clearer.

[Drew]

Fair enough Drew.

I've edited my previous post to make my point a little clearer.

You're right in that it's a slippery slope into assigning blame to someone when one is breaking the law themselves, I've been charged with careless use when woman failed to stop at a stop sign, on nothing more than her word that I must have been speeding as she didn't see me coming.

I just don't like it, so will argue it every time.

[Scuba_Steve]

I hope that I can write my car off and get paid out for it. So it will never get old.

This 'informal social rule' following bothers me.

People are thinking they no better than the law and making up their own? I will plow straight into anyone who thinks they no better than the law, and get well over my cars real worth as payment for it. Whoever I hit will be liable for that amount.

hope you have full cover then

And whats wrong with "social law"? Should the people not be able to make laws themselves if the majority agree? many laws can be "overwritten" if it can be shown that under a true democracy the people would have it this way.
And if you like dictatorship, may I recommend North Korea as a country you might like to live

[Katman]

on nothing more than her word that I must have been speeding as she didn't see me coming.

Were you?

[vifferman]

There's a supermarket exit on our street which is exactly like this. In the 11 years I've lived here, I have three instances of cars in the blue car's situation (with me being the red car) actually give way.
The problem is, NZ drivers invent their own unofficial road rules, like "the small road gives way to the big road", regardless of what the actual law is.

[Drew]

Were you?

Not at all. I put my hand up when I fuck up. Was really weird crash, she started to pull out then stopped, I figured she saw me, then she just crept out like she couldn't make up her mind. If I'd hit the picks as soon as she moved I wouldn't have hit her, but she had heaps of room and just never commited to any course of action.

I take responso for not diong what I could, but the whole thing was so un real as it unfolded I was just confused as fuck.

hope you have full cover then

And whats wrong with "social law"? Should the people not be able to make laws themselves if the majority agree? many laws can be "overwritten" if it can be shown that under a true democracy the people would have it this way.
And if you like dictatorship, may I recommend North Korea as a country you might like to live

If the public think a law is wrong, they can't just make up there own and start using it. There are channels for having them changed properly. To just start doing it however we want is fuckin stupid. On top of that it will take nothing for a lawyer to argue the case for the person obeying the ACTUAL law.

You keep obeying the law you like best, and someday I'll be lucky enough for you to sponsor me a new car.

[BMWST?]

The thing is that drivers do not recognise a driveway or supermarket entry/exit as part of the road system, which is why the blue car will not often give way as required by law. And I don't think it's policed (except after a prang, of course).
Isn't the right hand rule about to change back to what it was (in the late 70s?). Once it does, the blue will have right of way.

the old right of way rules have the either car giving way(courtesy) but the overriding rule was give way to the right.Most supermarket etc carparks round here have give way signs on the exit which means the blue car has right of way.Quite often the give way signs are less noticeable cos of a lot of other signage