Indicating at roundabouts

**Max Preload** · 3rd September 2007, 13:07

Originally Posted by kevie

Its was really funny seing the new regulations ....as I was taught to drive in 1969 by a Wanganui traffic officer that was also a driving instructor (Don Williams) and in 1969 he taught me to indicate correctly at roundabouts .... in exactly the same way the law has recently decided it should be done .... its actually a dam good system if people would understand and use it.

I too was taught exactly as the so-called "new" regulation is saying. By a driving instructor in 1988. Anyone else see a pattern? Is it time people had to learn to drive properly, through a competent instructor? (I emphasize competent because of that Target show where only 2 of the 5 driving instructors could drive a manual and only one was not a recent immigrant with a strong accent...)

**Max Preload** · 3rd September 2007, 13:09

I posted this in this thread before the crash and it was lost.

For those struggling with the concept, for our sake print it out and stick it on your dash.

**Hitcher** · 3rd September 2007, 13:17

I still don't see what's wrong with indicating right then left when entering a roundabout to go "straight" through. It's all about communicating intentions, right?

**McJim** · 3rd September 2007, 13:35

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I still don't see what's wrong with indicating right then left when entering a roundabout to go "straight" through. It's all about communicating intentions, right?

Respectfully....

a/ It's illegal
b/ It is all about indicating your intention so why indicate right when you have no intention to turn right?

In a way you answered your own question.

**Reckless** · 4th September 2007, 16:06

Hitch the whole idea is about flow and if you indicate right and don't intend to go that far around, the guy on the opposite side who is waiting to go straight through thinks you are going to turn infront of him, and he waits for you. Until you bail out and quickly flick your indicator to the left when he could have takin off as you where entering or just after. And that is what annoys the rest of us perhaps more than not indicating at all.

**Skyryder** · 4th September 2007, 17:23

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I still don't see what's wrong with indicating right then left when entering a roundabout to go "straight" through. It's all about communicating intentions, right?

So is not indicating at all. Anywhere else it means that you are not turning, so why confuse the issue on a roundabout. Look at what has happened since this 'so called' new law. Dipsticks indicating any way but where they are going.

Skyryder

**Hitcher** · 4th September 2007, 18:04

Originally Posted by Reckless

Hitch the whole idea is about flow and if you indicate right and don't intend to go that far around, the guy on the opposite side who is waiting to go straight through thinks you are going to turn infront of him, and he waits for you. Until you bail out and quickly flick your indicator to the left when he could have takin off as you where entering or just after. And that is what annoys the rest of us perhaps more than not indicating at all.

How is he to know if I am not indicating what my intentions are? He assumes I am going straight ahead, moves off, only to wear me in his driver's door because I was actually planning to go right but wasn't indicating? What a fucktard he'd feel then!

**Reckless** · 4th September 2007, 20:18

Jeepers you guys!

Ok then! Take the words "perhaps more than not indicating at all." off the end.

And then re read! I only said it because thats the other main problem at roundabouts not because I meant to do it.
Bloody hell you guys lookin for a scrap or what! Have a nice day!

**Max Preload** · 4th September 2007, 22:23

Originally Posted by Hitcher

How is he to know if I am not indicating what my intentions are? He assumes I am going straight ahead, moves off, only to wear me in his driver's door because I was actually planning to go right but wasn't indicating? What a fucktard he'd feel then!

If you're indicating right from the right lane on a multilane roundabout and go straight through you've been telling the car at the next entry in the left lane that they're ok to go when in fact they're not. Indicate properly. How hard is it, really?

**bikemike** · 5th September 2007, 23:27

If you're on a tiddlywink then yes, as per Hitcher, indicating right when planning to go straight through can be a lifesaver. However, I find it's needed very rarely, and when that close, a hand signal to clarify works better. All other times, indicate as per the law requires, which makes complete sense anyway. (Except for the 3 second rule which is nonsense - indicate from when and for as long as is possible, safe and necessary)

As with speed signs and guidelines, I use all these with a pinch of salt. If you read the road and communicate your intentions rather than your knowledge of the law then you will live longer. The law in these areas is really only there to advise those who lack the common sense.

Stop complaining about indicator switches, get a BMW, huge thumb paddles :-)

**denill** · 29th September 2007, 08:43

Originally Posted by CptSolo

Hi guys, just need to vent a frustration..

People who indicate right when heading straight through a roundabout are getting on my wick.

Probably a year or two ago the law changed making it compulsary to indicate when coming off a roundabout, eg. turning right you indicate right going round the island and then when approaching your exit you indicate left. A good and simple rule to help traffic flow, but somehow a lot of people seem to have interpreted this to mean you must also indicate right when you are going straight through. Not the case, if you are going straight through you only need to indicate left when coming off the roundabout (right?!). The result is you end up waiting for somebody indicating right only to find they're going straight.

Anybody else sick of this happening? Its driving me freeking nuts!

Hey mate. Spot on - but you're pissing into the wind. The wankers who don't understand what you have written are the same ones you have to watch out for on the roads as they are the ones who will take you out! They don't or can't think. Just be VERY careful out there.

**Grahameeboy** · 29th September 2007, 08:51

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I still don't see what's wrong with indicating right then left when entering a roundabout to go "straight" through. It's all about communicating intentions, right?

But But...Right indicator means turning right.............

**Grahameeboy** · 29th September 2007, 08:52

Originally Posted by Hitcher

How is he to know if I am not indicating what my intentions are? He assumes I am going straight ahead, moves off, only to wear me in his driver's door because I was actually planning to go right but wasn't indicating? What a fucktard he'd feel then!

So in that case don't complain when a driver moves lanes without indicating.............