some road rules clarification

[mike787]

There in lays the issue...you ask for "clarification" in a place no such rationality exists. 

3 facts: 

1.  This is Thailand.

2. Thailand driving will never change.

3. Thailand has the top 5 highest vehicular mortality rates world wide.

Edited December 26, 2019 by mike787

[nrasmussen]

2 hours ago, mike787 said:

There in lays the issue...you ask for "clarification" in a place no such rationality exists. 

3 facts: 

1.  This is Thailand.

2. Thailand driving will never change.

3. Thailand has the top 5 highest vehicular mortality rates world wide.

As long as the traffic rules apparently are so complicated that a bunch of foreigners, most of whom I'm assuming are coming from countries with a thorough driver's education, cannot seem to agree on the interpretation of said rules, it's no wonder that watching a couple of hours of video at the DLT doesn't cut it.

[Gulfsailor]

Thai traffic rules were mostly based on the New Zealand rules, not the UK rules. Unfortunately for Thailand NZ changed some weird rules, so they are now consistent with other countries, but Thailand has not changed these. In effect that means in Thailand;

1) cars going straight on a principal roadways have right of way (a roundabout is a principal roadway)

2) at equal junctions cars coming from the left have right if way

3) at oncoming traffic, the one turning right into a side road has right of way over the one turning left into the same road (that’s a hard one to believe for most)

4) when on a principal roadway (for instance a T junction) the car turning right into a side road has to give way from the car exiting that side road and turning right into the principal roadway (also hard to believe but it’s true). 

Numbers 3 and 4 were the same in NZ until they changed the law in 2012. 

Edited December 26, 2019 by Gulfsailor

[HHTel]

Before NZ gained independence it was British.  It's citizens were British and guess who made the road rules.

It really doesn't matter whether Thai copied the rules in NZ or the UK.  It pretty much amounts to the same.

[HHTel]

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In New Zealand, driving is on the left with overtaking on the right. New Zealand has the same system of signs and road rules as you would find in the United Kingdom so you'll feel at home. 

 

[Salerno]

Reading this I'm surprised there's not even more accidents involving farang than there are   

[mike787]

Numbers are clarification they don't lie....

Edited December 27, 2019 by mike787

[stevenl]

On 12/26/2019 at 7:11 AM, HHTel said:

I've already explained the narrow rule where the vehicle on your left goes first.  However, you say that I made up the rule of giving way to the right.  The law stipulates that anyone entering a junction must be given way to by anyone approaching that junction.  Also in the same manner traffic on a roundabout must be given way to also.  That is the law and in both those cases, if you don't give way to the right then you're in big trouble. The guy coming in from the right is going to hit you whereas the guy coming in from the left is already in front of you and no problem.

 

Sorry, that sentence makes absolutely no sense.

 

This is about junctions or 'interchanges' as the say in the US and giving way to the left when you arrive at a junction with no priority AT THE SAME TIME then the car to your left goes first. 

 

For goodness sake.  It's so simple.  So logical.  No wonder there are accidents.  OMG

Yes, OMG.

 

Traffic from the left has right of way, unless the other road is more important. Like roundabouts or roads with less numbers.

Edited December 28, 2019 by stevenl

[stevenl]

On 12/26/2019 at 8:27 PM, Gulfsailor said:

Thai traffic rules were mostly based on the New Zealand rules, not the UK rules. Unfortunately for Thailand NZ changed some weird rules, so they are now consistent with other countries, but Thailand has not changed these. In effect that means in Thailand;

1) cars going straight on a principal roadways have right of way (a roundabout is a principal roadway)

2) at equal junctions cars coming from the left have right if way

3) at oncoming traffic, the one turning right into a side road has right of way over the one turning left into the same road (that’s a hard one to believe for most)

4) when on a principal roadway (for instance a T junction) the car turning right into a side road has to give way from the car exiting that side road and turning right into the principal roadway (also hard to believe but it’s true). 

Numbers 3 and 4 were the same in NZ until they changed the law in 2012. 

Yes, finally, thanks.

[Lancashirelad]

This might help some to grasp where and when the give way to the left rule applies. The question is taken from the Thai driving theory test question bank.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Lancashirelad

[HHTel]

And I'm sure you know that many of those 'translated' questions are presented with all answers being wrong or more than one answer being correct.

In the example above, if you're ready to go after allowing the car on the left to proceed, you're in danger of hitting the car from the right.

Of course, under the same rule, the car on the right (car C) should wait for car A, who is waiting for car B etc.  And what does the red car with it's headlights on intend to do.  Should that not be waiting for car C?

 

Many of these questions are badly translated, or ill thought out.