Do you know give way rules changing on 25 March? Give way rule quiz

**Mom** · 8th March 2012, 05:13

Originally Posted by steve_t

How do you figure we're more vulnerable?

I would on average avoid being taken out at intersections on my commute half a dozen times a week by people that do not know their give way rules. Changing them will only make this even worse, ergo making us more vulnerable to idiots at intersections.

For some, this was the rule that was drummed into us as we learned, and what we applied to our driving/riding for many years, until it changed. Changing it back will be a relatively easy transistion for us, howevr, there will be plenty of people out on the roads that will have no friggen idea who gives way to whom.

**Newbi** · 8th March 2012, 06:11

It's gonna be fucken carnage......... that is all.

**sinfull** · 8th March 2012, 06:29

Originally Posted by Mom

I would on average avoid being taken out at intersections on my commute half a dozen times a week .

I love living where i am !

Don't commute so there's a bonus but i very seldom feel threatened by other drivers at intersections, could have something to do with the fact it's a bloody retirement villa mecca all up and down the kapiti coast now !

I tend to spend most of my time pacepalming and shaking my head while folk sit there and wonder which one of them has right of way !
Ok i'm not that calm a driver when in my van and am also generally screaming things like, come on you stupid fuckin woman or silly old prick !

**Maha** · 8th March 2012, 06:33

When in doubt.....wait, and you will live.

**Voltaire** · 8th March 2012, 06:38

9/9....just cast my mind back to the late 70's and driving overseas....unlike the old( current) rule which is just plain stupid and has never worked properly

**Usarka** · 8th March 2012, 06:40

Originally Posted by Maha

When in doubt.....wait, and you will live.

Not in auckland. It's when in doubt, get the f*** out!

**Maha** · 8th March 2012, 06:44

Originally Posted by Usarka

Not in auckland. It's when in doubt, get the f*** out!

ahhhhh the Aucklnad bus driver train of thought.

**MSTRS:Me** · 8th March 2012, 07:39

Originally Posted by Voltaire

...( current) rule which is just plain stupid and has never worked properly

Which is something I could never understand. It was sooo easy to remember. No ifs, buts, or any other exceptions.
The stupid part is one of the ads I've seen re the change states "Just remember, if you can be hit on your left side, then you give way".
Never did I see or hear such a simple explanation of the about-to-be-changed rule...And a car driver is so much more vulnerable to injury from a strike on the right side, n'est pas?

**Scuba_Steve** · 8th March 2012, 08:07

Originally Posted by Voltaire

9/9....just cast my mind back to the late 70's and driving overseas....unlike the old( current) rule which is just plain genius and is far more logical

fixed that for ya

My main concern is the amount of people (looking at other forums round) that are failing this online test some even to the point of only 4-5 correct... That's a scary thought, even worse given most of them are also of the age where they can remember the old rule

**oneofsix** · 8th March 2012, 08:20

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Which is something I could never understand. It was sooo easy to remember. No ifs, buts, or any other exceptions.
The stupid part is one of the ads I've seen re the change states "Just remember, if you can be hit on your left side, then you give way".
Never did I see or hear such a simple explanation of the about-to-be-changed rule...And a car driver is so much more vulnerable to injury from a strike on the right side, n'est pas?

I did and like you said no ifs buts or exception. As the driver of the cage if you were about to get hit in your door (note immediate danger to self) give way in all circumstances. Now it will be if you are going to be hit in your door give way EXCEPT at an uncontrolled intersection were you and the other car are both turn, in which if if the passenger is going to get hit, well who care its not you.

**MSTRS:Me** · 8th March 2012, 08:23

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

My main concern is the amount of people (looking at other forums round) that are failing this online test some even to the point of only 4-5 correct... That's a scary thought, even worse given most of them are also of the age where they can remember the old rule

Absolutely.
I learned to drive/ride under the old rule, and the 'new' one always made more sense to me.
I took that test. I applied the easy to remember 'If you can be hit on the left side' and got one wrong.
Yep...at the roundabout.
Regardless of who gives way to who, all that has happened is exceptions have been re-introduced.

**Gianz** · 8th March 2012, 08:37

I've been driving/riding 3 years here in Nz and finally I will obey the rules for the first time from the 25th of march. If I think it's stupid I don't do it, especially if the government asks me to.

**Scuba_Steve** · 8th March 2012, 08:50

Originally Posted by Gianz

I've been driving/riding 3 years here in Nz and finally I will obey the rules for the first time from the 25th of march. If I think it's stupid I don't do it, especially if the government asks me to.

Wow, you are lucky you never met me in my cage then. I enforce the sensible laws & people tend to get the message when they find a Landrover through their drivers door (tho to be honest they always tend to get the message before contact, shame really).