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Originally Posted by Ben73
It seems that most people don't know the proper roundabout rules, but since everyone agrees on the same wrong rules it actually works out ok most of the time.
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Most people drive to survive...fortunately even if people completely stuff up at a roundabout they have usually slowed down so the consequences are relatively minor.
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Originally Posted by Ben73
If that's how Vic roads interprets the rule then that's ridiculous.
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I think it was a national change some years back.
I actually think it's great...it stops those idiots who scream up to a roundabout just cause they are approaching to your right.
But of course many blokes at the pearly gates screaming out that they had the right of way...so survival instincts usually kick in.
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Originally Posted by Ben73
NSW it states something like you have to follow instructions related to the lane that you enter the roundabout in. You are allowed to change lanes on a roundabout but you have to give way to vehicles in the other lane.
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That is simply a variation of the rule that the driver crossing a dotted line must give way....a dotted line is a "Give Way" sign.
Remember though...just cause a vehicle is in the right lane and if you are entering the left lane he still has the right of way in both lanes...because he is already in the roundabout....and you are not.
BUT...entering a roundabout also crosses a Give Way line, therefore the give way to vehicles already on the roundabout takes precedence.
That...is the law, perhaps imperfect but a law, whether one agrees with it or not.