Originally Posted by VApeople (Post 1866309)

That is not how we drive. Everywhere I cross paths with a golf cart (like leaving our neighborhood, turning into the parking lot at Sarasota golf facility, or crossing the MMP at Turtle Mound), I have the right-of-way and I take it. However, I always drive slowly.

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1866317)

Then it’s just a matter of time before a golf cart driver hurls you unpleasant epithets for not yielding, as happened to me my first week living here. I innocently committed the cardinal sin of not letting a golf cart merge in front of me on Canal Street, assuming he knew to come in behind me.

Hope you stay safe and unscathed ignoring TV’s unwritten law. (You even see golf cart drivers here and on other threads talking as if it’s a given they have the right of way - they really don’t know they DON’T have it. It really is a strange phenomenon, that.)

Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 1866329)

Can we assume that you and the cart were side by side at the merge on Canal Street?

I can't believe people are willing to risk their nice vehicles to make a point. Sure, the heavier vehicle will win, but it will be costly to scrape my skin off their bumper.

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1866159)

This is a common, and dangerous misconception in the Villages. State law requires golf carts to yield to cars but unfortunately the majority of TV golf cart drivers, God love them, do not know this or refuse to comply with this law.

I so wish, for everyone’s safety, that awareness be raised that in the Villages, we have a tradition of cars yielding to golf carts (the opposite of the law).

So please...all newbies and outsiders, be aware of this unwritten law—- in the Villages, cars yield to golf carts. It’s not the way it’s legally supposed to be, but because the developer and the counties are doing nothing to enforce the real law, it’s in everyone’s best interest to learn this here wrong way of doing things.

Gee, I can think of other laws we Villagers, with our enormous power, should be allowed to ignore. Maybe we should form a committee.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 1866397)

Doubt if the Developer can enact state laws......

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1866409)

Nobody’s asking them to. The law is already enacted anyway. The statement was “the developer is not enforcing...”

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1866413)

Didn’t realize that the “developer’ had law enforcement authority :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1866436)

Maybe not, but isn’t this the developer paying lip service to “enforcement”? Now I’m on the floor laughing! Golf Cart Requirements | The Villages Florida

Originally Posted by Kenswing (Post 1866446)

I hope you're not under the impression that your link is affiliated with the developer.

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1866632)

Then I sit corrected. You and others might be right that the developer technically has zero enforcement authority other than advisory, as in the link. Or are you saying the link, which comes from the Villages’ own literature, has nothing to do with the developer? I would think all the official Villages’ website and written literature has to be at least rubber stamped by the developer, no?

In any case, the important take away here for newbies and outsiders and for everyone’s personal and vehicle safety, is that in the Villages, cars yield to golf carts, whether we like it or not, and regardless of whether that tradition is consistent with Florida law.

And it matters not who is failing to enforce the way it’s legally supposed to be.

Originally Posted by Kenswing (Post 1866646)

What I'm saying is that the link you provided is not an official Villages website. It appears that it's from the Villages GPS or maybe even affiliated with TOTV. If it was the Developer's website it would be from thevillages.com.

Originally Posted by sloanst (Post 1866447)

The rules for golf carts on the road are the same as cars. There is no room for courtesy if it is contrary to the traffic laws. It just causes confusion and confused people on the road cause accidents.