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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Here's a little experiment for you:
Look at an old fashioned watch. See how the hands connect in the middle. Now change the time to exactly 6 o'clock.
Look at those hands. They go straight up and down. Or, if you were in a roundabout, straight north and south. Or straight east and west.
Notice there is no way to go STRAIGHT through that clock, from south to north, without running into the center of the clock where the two hands meet.
If that were a traffic circle, and you were going STRAIGHT through the roundabout, you would do the same thing with your car. I can assure you, the results would be unpleasant.
No, in order to move your finger around counter-clockwise from "near-center" (the inside lane), you go around, UNTIL you see the 12 o'clock coming up on your...what is that called? Oh yeah. On your right. When you see that 12 o'clock number coming up on your right, you veer away from the counter-clockwise movement, and instead, go to your RIGHT.
If you don't go to your right, you will simply continue going around in circles, endlessly, until you run out of gas or get a blister on your finger (depending on whether you're driving a car or moving your finger around a watch face).
You are physically, literally, moving RIGHT when you exit out of a traffic circle. That is what you are doing with your hands on the wheel, it's what your car is doing, and that's why you're supposed to put on your RIGHT turn signal when you exit.
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Let me try to educate you a different way:
It's a
CIRCLE, with traffic continually moving around. It is
NOT a traditional intersection with a left lane and a right lane. You are
NOT making a "right" turn,
EVER. You are exiting right, if you prefer that terminology. If it were an intersection of two 4 lane roads, you would go left from the left lane, right from the right lane, and straight from
EITHER lane. That is exactly what happens in the RB, except the left turn is a 270 degree "travel" through the RB, a right turn is a 90 degree travel, and straight is 180 degrees. When you use the inner lane to go straight,
YOU ARE NOT TURNING RIGHT.
Also, consider this. Ever travel of the turnpike to Orlando? Many "exits" are 2 lane exits, where the right lane
MUST exit and the 2nd from the right lane
MAY exit. If you view that situation in isolation, your premise is that the car in the inner/left exit lane is making a right turn from the left lane. Don't argue, it's
EXACTLY the same thing as the RBs. To take it further, if there is an entrance lane just before the exit, those cars that are coming into the turnpike
MUST YIELD to traffic in
BOTH exit lanes, just like in a RB
Get it now??????