German road rules
Monday, September 3rd, 2012 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manIn the UK, all road intersections have, at the very least, white lines painted on the road indicating which road has priority.
In Germany, that's only the case for major intersections. Minor ones have the rule of what I will always think of as priorité à droite, after the language I first encountered it in.
Unfortunately what that means is that, when approaching a crossroads, you need to look right, to see if there's any traffic you need to give way to, but also simultaneously look left, to see if there's any traffic you'd come into collision with as you ventured out onto the road.
I think this road rule was invented for chameleons (which can move their eyeballs independently)...
In Germany, that's only the case for major intersections. Minor ones have the rule of what I will always think of as priorité à droite, after the language I first encountered it in.
Unfortunately what that means is that, when approaching a crossroads, you need to look right, to see if there's any traffic you need to give way to, but also simultaneously look left, to see if there's any traffic you'd come into collision with as you ventured out onto the road.
I think this road rule was invented for chameleons (which can move their eyeballs independently)...
