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Originally Posted by spring_chicken
I still don't understand why people in golf carts believe that all they have to do is turn on their blinker, throw out their hand, and the whole world stops for them. You do NOT have the right of way and it is not the job of cars to slam on their brakes because you throw out your hand.
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Originally Posted by rubicon
Au contraire: you might want to brush up on the "Rules of the Road"
And to answer you specifically what I expect is that after I have made a proper look out, placed my turn signal on prior to my intended merger and completed my merger maneuver that no, I would not expect the whole world to stop, just the driver behind me . What is it you don't get about a driver intentionally accelerating and making a left pass around a cart in a childish and irresponsible manner?...
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Sorry, rubicon, but everything spring_chicken said is exactly right. Chicken knows the "Rules of the Road". You're the one who should brush up.
All the proper look outs, turn signals, hand signals, whatever else, do not eliminate the need for the left turner to identify an
adequate gap. If there is not an adequate gap, that "driver behind me" is NOT obligated to stop for you. The gap is what matters, not just the fact that a car might be a short distance behind you.
Before you huff and puff at me, if the driver behind you is really "intentionally accelerating and making a left pass around a cart in a childish and irresponsible manner", then of course he is in the wrong. But that doesn't change the fact that spring_chicken was right...you do not automatically have the right-of-way just because you've signaled your intentions and a car may be a short distance behind you. There's where that little matter of there being a proper opening for your maneuver comes into play.