News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’. Parent comment

Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by mrob on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:29AM (#22223262)
"Right of way" in the UK means a legal right to use the road. Pedestrians have right of way on most UK roads (motorways being a notable exception). "Right of way" is sometimes used as slang for "right to proceed first when multiple road users are competing for the same part of the road", but the correct term for this, as used in the Highway Code, is "priority".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by chippy on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:37AM (#22223301)
Just to build on this, pedestrians have priority at marked pedestrians crossings of course but also outside of marked crossings when crossing a smaller road where a car is on a main road and is wanting to turn into the smaller road.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-...

"Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by 45ure on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:02PM (#22226105)
>"Right of way" in the UK means a legal right to use the road. Pedestrians have right of way on most UK roads(motorways being a notable exception)

There are distinctions to be made, when it comes to 'Right(s) of way' but your bizarre and daredevil interpretation of what constitutes a legal route for pedestrians and the call to ignore common-sense road security, would only be considered by those who have a death wish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-of-way_(transportation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_way_in_England_and_W...

Countryside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryside_and_Rights_of_Way_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by mrob on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:41PM (#22226643)
I said nothing about safety, and made no calls to action.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by 45ure on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:07PM (#22227017)
Pedestrians have right of way on most UK roads(motorways being a notable exception

Your open-ended statement implies that legging it across a road is fine, as long as it isn't a motorway. This is not a safe guidance for the uninitiated.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by mrob on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:12PM (#22227093)
It implies no such thing, and it is not guidance.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by 45ure on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:35PM (#22227346)
Your original statement was emphatic and conveys authority. Perhaps, I misinterpreted your riposte, as an intention to inform the reader.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by OJFord on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:37AM (#22223998)
The confusion probably arises because we 'give way' to the higher priority traffic.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by mongol on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:27AM (#22223925)
Is "right of way" perhaps a naval term, primarily?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by twic on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:09PM (#22238853)
Apparently not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_...

[ Parent | on HN ]