Priority Question

[7mike]

thatguy11 said:

trevt said:

Doesn't the highway code recommend giving way to vehicles coming uphill?

That's what I go by

But what happens when the guy coming down hill hasn't read it for a while

[Mave]

7mike said:

I'll stick to using my judgment thanks and leave this obsession with who has right away to the internet experts.

Again, nobody said not to use your judgement. It is possible to recognise the rules, and use your judgement to avoid a collision when others aren't following the rules. The OP was about rules, why are people who answer the OP's question "obsessive"?

[Mave]

SK425 said:

I think he kind of did.

No, he didn't. He said "you have right of way". He didn't say "you have right of way so press on regardless of whether or not the other driver respects your right of way"...

[SK425]

Mave said:

SK425 said:

I think he kind of did.

No, he didn't. He said "you have right of way". He didn't say "you have right of way so press on regardless of whether or not the other driver respects your right of way"...

No, he didn't say that, although what else is a mistaken belief that you have priority when you actually don't going to lead to?

But what I was getting at was the general wrongness of romeogolf's post: a) it isn't called 'right of way' and b) whatever you call it, neither driver had it over the other in the OP's scenario. I suspect what 7mike was responding to was a post giving carelessly worded, bad advice, even if his sarcasm led him to extrapolate and caricature romeogolf's contention a bit.

[7mike]

SK425 said:

I suspect what 7mike was responding to was a post giving carelessly worded, bad advice, even if his sarcasm led him to extrapolate and caricature romeogolf's contention a bit.

who me? sarcasm? Fair enough, I get that way when I hear all that obsessive bks about right of way. Oh hum

[NotPennysBoat]

The car coming up the hill had priority.

A) the car going uphill always gets priority

B) if the obstruction(parked car) is on your side of the road, then the other car had priority.

So the car coming uphill had priority in both respects.

[SK425]

NotPennysBoat said:

The car coming up the hill had priority.

A) the car going uphill always gets priority

Always? So considering a different scenario, if I'm driving uphill on a narrower road than the OP and there's a parked car on my side of the road, I have priority to cross the centre line to pass it even if that forces oncoming downhill traffic to slow because they won't fit too? Well I never knew that. Is there a minimum steepness for this rule to apply - 1 in 10? 1 in 20? 1 in 100? 1 in 1000? There's probably a small but finite gradient on most pieces of road.

NotPennysBoat said:

B) if the obstruction(parked car) is on your side of the road, then the other car had priority.

There were obstructions on both sides of the road. That's the point.

NotPennysBoat said:

So the car coming uphill had priority in both respects.

Both the respect that you just made up without thinking it through and the respect where you completely missed the point of the question you mean?