A couple of ways to show courtesy to other drivers

[spring_chicken]

If you are making a left turn or going straight in a cart (or a car, for that matter) at an intersection with no traffic light, please stop your cart or car at the far left side of your lane. This will allow those behind you who are turning right to proceed when safe.

If you are in a cart and turning right onto a street that has a golf cart lane, it is not necessary to wait for cars to pass. You may proceed safely into the cart lane when there are no carts coming. It is very easy for even the worst of drivers to turn into the cart lane without swinging wide into cars.

And if you ask what's my hurry, I'll know for sure that you are one of the inconsiderate drivers. It's not about hurry, it's about being courteous to other drivers.

[Polar Bear]

...If you are in a cart and turning right onto a street that has a golf cart lane, it is not necessary to wait for cars to pass. You may proceed safely into the cart lane when there are no carts coming. It is very easy for even the worst of drivers to turn into the cart lane without swinging wide into cars...
"Safely" is highly debatable. I rarely provide this "courtesy". My concern is not my "swinging wide into cars". My concern is the cars swinging wide into me.

Sorry, but what you are suggesting as a courtesy violates the most important principle of driving...self-preservation!! :)

[spring_chicken]

"Safely" is highly debatable. I rarely provide this "courtesy". My concern is not my "swinging wide into cars". My concern is the cars swinging wide into me.

Sorry, but what you are suggesting as a courtesy violates the most important principle of driving...self-preservation!! :)

And those same cars could swing wide into you at any point when you are in a golf cart lane, so for self-preservation, you probably shouldn't drive a cart. Shall I assume that when in a car turning right onto a 4 lane road, you also won't proceed when the right lane is clear?

[Skip’dabeat]

Amen!


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[graciegirl]

Do you honk if the cart in front of you is not positioned right, Mrs. Chicken?

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Here is a don't. Don't stop and wave me on when you have the right of way. You may think you are being kind and courteous...I think you are trying to kill me.

[Marathon Man]

If you are making a left turn or going straight in a cart (or a car, for that matter) at an intersection with no traffic light, please stop your cart or car at the far left side of your lane. This will allow those behind you who are turning right to proceed when safe.

If you are in a cart and turning right onto a street that has a golf cart lane, it is not necessary to wait for cars to pass. You may proceed safely into the cart lane when there are no carts coming. It is very easy for even the worst of drivers to turn into the cart lane without swinging wide into cars.

And if you ask what's my hurry, I'll know for sure that you are one of the inconsiderate drivers. It's not about hurry, it's about being courteous to other drivers.

So, I am supposed to share the lane with another vehicle? No thanks.

[coffeebean]

Here is a don't. Don't stop and wave me on when you have the right of way. You may think you are being kind and courteous...I think you are trying to kill me.

I second this suggestion. Car drivers who wave on golf cart drivers when the car certainly has the right of way, only instills the incorrect way to drive in our community. Those folks who are not used to driving in our community (snow birds and visitors) will think it is normal for a golf cart driver to have the right of way when the car drivers have right of way.

PLEASE DON'T wave me on when I'm in my golf cart. I will patiently wait until it is safe to proceed. Thank you!

[Topspinmo]

I would just be satisfied if people knew vehicles now day have blinkers lights and when you turn either direction you suppose to use them. And YES when you exit the first exit in roundabout THAT IS A TURN!!!! !!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[Wiotte]

I would just be satisfied if people knew vehicles now day have blinkers lights and when you turn either direction you suppose to use them. And YES when you exit the first exit in roundabout THAT IS A TURN!!!! !!!!!!!! !!!!!!!



How about the guy that signals right every time through a circle, every circle from 466 to 466A.


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[Polar Bear]

And those same cars could swing wide into you at any point when you are in a golf cart lane...
So the driver of a an automobile 1) clearly sees a golf cart in the right lane ahead of him, or 2) he sees a totally totally clear road ahead with no vehicle in the cart lane.

If you don't see the difference, I won't try to explain it to you. It is clearly hopeless.

Shall I assume that when in a car turning right onto a 4 lane road, you also won't proceed when the right lane is clear?
You mean the left lane has has fast moving traffic approaching? Yes...safe assumption. Since in your words "the right lane is clear", how do you know the vehicle approaching in the left lane is not about to change lanes?

[graciegirl]

Funny about driving, I am usually an impatient person, but I am not when driving. It may be due to the example of the people I rode with growing up and still do, I don't know.


Once is a very great while other drivers make me annoyed, but not every day the way that I feel when I read the headlines of the news on my computer.

Thank Goodness.

I suppose we are all entrenched in our ways, so this thread won't change anyone.

[spring_chicken]

Do you honk if the cart in front of you is not positioned right, Mrs. Chicken?

No mam, I just shake my head at the inconsideration.

[bagboy]

lol...kinda don't think that dog will hunt.

[GolfGirl122]

I suppose you also want me to turn left on 466a just because I have a green light (not green turn signal) and it "looks" like no one is coming. You may be able to see over all the cars, but I can't, and I'm not moving until I get a CLEAR view or a green turn signal. Honk all you want - I'd rather be safe and alive.

[CFrance]

I suppose you also want me to turn left on 466a just because I have a green light (not green turn signal) and it "looks" like no one is coming. You may be able to see over all the cars, but I can't, and I'm not moving until I get a CLEAR view or a green turn signal. Honk all you want - I'd rather be safe and alive.
I agree. And the same thing to people who honk if you don't turn right at a red light. They can honk all they want when I'm traveling south and am at the intersection of 466 & Rolling Acres Road. 466 looking east is a bit of a curve, and it's impossible to determine for sure what lane the oncoming cars are in.

Plus it is not mandatory to turn red on a red light, nor to inch out into the intersection to turn left on a green if you can't see who's coming.

[l2ridehd]

You should always proceed when it is safe and legal to do so. And that means right turn on red, left turn on green with no oncoming traffic, and others. This saves fuel as it moves traffic at a safe and even pace. It helps our environment as you don't leave 5 other cars behind you wasting fuel.

My biggest pet peeve is when your the eighth car back at a traffic light and car number 3 fails to go on the green light. So you end up sitting through an extra light. It's because they are texting. It's an addiction. Watch how many people stop at a light and immediately grab their phone and start texting. What can possibly be that important that it can't wait until you get someplace and park. I just don't get it. Cars and or phones will be made so they will not be able to text in a car. Insurance companies will demand it if current accident trends continue.

[Fredster]

Those that complain on TOV about what other drivers should do, or don’t do,
seem to have trouble accepting things they can’t control!