THE RIGHT-HAND RULE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 6

THE RIGHT-HAND RULE.

Will "Motorist", kindly sketch a diagram as follows? (1) Draw a plan of a right-angled intersection of two streets and call them Blue Street and Green Street; (2) place the plan so that Blue Street is running away from you and Green Street is running across your view; (3) draw a dotted line running away from you along Blue Street and showing the normal course of a car going up Blue Street and across Green Strget; (4) draw similar lines along Green Street left and Green Street right, up to and across Blue Street. These two lines will intersect tlio Blue Street dotted line at two points. Call the one nearer to you A and the other B. Imagine yourself driving "P Blue Street. A is the likely collision point with traffic from the right. B is a similar point for the left traffic. But B is considerably further away from you as you enter Green Street. Therefore I* urge that B should be made the recognised danger point instead of A. In other words, the present rule should be reversed. Furthermore, if you sketch a car in successive positions as it goes along Blue Street towards Green Street, you can draw dotted lines to left and right showing how much vision you have "around the corner" 011 each side. The foregoing reasoning applies to country road intersections as well as to town intersections. SINISTER.