What is it with the LTSA? Are they determined to be stupid?
This new road rule for indicating on roundabouts is plain daft!
First there is the logic.
Indicating
right while doing a
left turn onto a roundabout, is that counter-intuitive?
Then there is the practical issue:
Having to hold the indicator on, while doing the maneuver. The automatic cancellation on the steering keeps turning off the indicator! So you need to hold it "on", thus leaving only one hand for the wheel.
This is surely a safety issue.
Then there are all the little roundabouts.
They are so small that they are really just glorified intersections with a chicane.
So now you need to indicate right, and then indicate left; and in the amount of time it takes to go through these roundabouts, you'll get about one indicator flash each way.
Oh, and you'll have to do that one-handed, while you operate the indicator.
Brilliant. Like that's helping.
1 Comments:
I think this has always been the rule, they're just trying to enforce it?
You don't indicate right if turning left, you indicate left through the turn. .
BTW, you are allowed to adjust your plans, so if there is a big queue to turn left, you can do a 450 degree turn - for this signal right going into the roundabout, then left as you exit ahead of all the mug punters...
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