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Originally Posted by taylor111947

I've encountered a couple of situations that I found confusing. I'd appreciate a little help.

As a car driver on a street with a cart lane, I was aproaching an intersection where I wanted to make a right turn and a cart was in back approaching at the same time. Not wanting to turn in front of the cart I stopped. The cart also stopped and waited until I made the turn. Not sure if that was because they saw my turn signal or because they saw my out-of-state plates and figured I didn't know what I was doing (or both).

The next time, I was in back of a cart and appraoching the intersection where I wanted to make a right turn about the same time as the cart. Since I didn't even know if the cart was aware that I was behind them I slowed down until they went through the intersection before turning.

This morning I was behind a cart that was not using the cart lane - I assume it was a street legal cart. Since it was only going 25-30 mph traffice was backing up behind me. Was there a reason why the cart did not use the cart lane?

I'll be riding a cart myself in the next several days and I want to make sure I'm doing things correctly - both as a car driver and a cart driver. Is there anything available to explain the rules?

I believe you acted correctly in both situations. As to the street legal, if there was a cart lane, then the speed limit on that road was no more than 30 mph. The street legal should have used the cart lane as a courtesy to other drivers but cars need to watch their speed when sharing the road with golf carts. By the way, I also hang back and yield to cars when I'm in my cart.