Roundabout Rules Australia Driver Education Video EP 4

This is video 4 in the Driver Education series I'm making to help explain some road rules many people are confused about . This video will examine roundabouts , rather than a step by step of how to use its will focus the 6 main points/rules drivers get wrong .
NOTE correction in the video one part uses the term "has right of way " this was a typo there is no legally term used for right of way in NSW! It is " other car has to give way " thanks and sorry for error .

Reference links for the rules


Remember this is the rules for the state of New South Wales Australia and references the Rms website

Thanks for watching , any questions or feedback please leave a comment .
Video and image credit to Rms nsw and transport nsw

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[heredownunder]

As a safe driver, you have to be prepared for the idiot from the right who drives through at speed, because they do not care about roundabouts. Likewise, you have to be prepared for the same impatient idiot driving into the roundabout in front of you. The main thing is to drive through carefully, slowing to a speed where you can avoid hitting a car in the roundabout.

[alisondawson]

Feeling extremely pleased with myself, having passed all the roundabout queries in the correct manner. I am a good driver ! Don’t know why other can’t get it right ! Scotty, thanks for this one, again, very well presented ! xoxox

[Blanchy]

The rule about giving way to any vehicle already in the roundabout is important! I would never be able to enter a roundabout in my Semi if I had to give way to any vehicle coming from the right!

[learnerdrivernsw]

Could you please make a video showing how to safely navigate roundabouts during extremely busy times when all the entry points are queued up? What observations to make and practice so that one can smoothly enter the roundabout, without holding up those behind your car or annoying those already in/on the right? In case you do it, kindly include a camera pointed to the right as well. Most videos out there shows light or moderate traffic, which is more comfortable and less confusing to give way to.

[pip]

thank you! absolute legend. I could imagine the satire that this channel was birthed from

[castcrus]

Great video! The "tutor" i got just told me to give way to the cars on the right. Now I know he doesn't know the rule either.

[deadjoker]

Biggest one i think is that give way to your right (which I do myself). That essentially means whoever isn't in gives way. For example, if I'm approaching a roundabout and going straight, I would look right (not as a extreme as the guy in the video) and once I have a opening quickly get in. However, according to this video, I don't need to do that. As long as they're not in it, I can enter. A reference would be appreciated.

Keep up the great work.

[BrokebackBob]

Fantastic educational video for us US tourists! 😁 Now I can come and tour our best friend forever country with a wonderful Aussie chaperone and drive some myself! Cheers!

[jaymanilla]

here in New Zealand drivers stop at round abouts when there is no traffic on the right.

[Beyondact]

Only comment I would put is that signaling anything other than out of the roundabout when you are going to exit is pointless. If you are going out with the first exit signal before entering. If any other then signal right after the last exit before the one you are going out of. Anything else is confusing and in Denmark possibly illegal if miss directing.

[Amantino]

The cars traveling from the right hand side of the image have to indicate left when traveling towards the green arrow and indicate right when following the blue arrow to go back in the direction they came from, so am I right in thinking that they don't have to indicate right when traveling in the direction of the red arrow? Because I see people indicating right all the time and it's confusing when I'm traveling from the opposite direction and have to stop but they end up going straight instead of making the "u-turn" that they were indicating.

[tomaslachnicht]

If i go straight ahead, i don't lut any signal at all or when im exiting the roundabout i must singal left?

[ellesmerewildwood]

Thanks mate, much better now (thumbs up) :o)
Roundabouts are my pet peeve. It's like it says somewhere in the rule book, "Do not give way to vehicles inside the roundabout on the right. A driver must squeeze in to the little space between the two cars in front of him and in front of the vehicle already in the roundabout."
What these nit-wits did to you made for a good demonstration video but just goes to show how many @%$^holes are on our roads.
Then there are the dim-wits who use their left indicator and then their right indicator to go straight through. I've even seen some semi drivers do that who should know better.

[Maya-vfyr]

Hi there
I’m a L plate driver and just had a quick question. At 7:44 the green car enters the roundabout without giving you right of way - and this is marked as incorrect. However since it is a double laned roundabout, and assuming the cars already in the roundabout don’t change lanes, isn’t it alright for the green car to enter the roundabout in the other lane without giving way?

[lessgo]

When going straight on into a round about will I need to indicate? Also when turning right will I need to indicate turning into where I’m existing in a single lane roundabout?

[paulisaez]

I have to say that this videos are so good. I like them, thank you fir taking time to do it. And is about NSW.

[droceretik]

So the re is an unbroken steam of traffic stretching from Sydney to Melbourne entering a roundabout. Do i have to wait for a day while that queue clears?

[JL-zkhm]

Two lane round about turning right, exit on the left lane as changing lane after indicating and giving ways is ok?

[spyane]

I was taught "In the middle -- On the right " rule (in that order) for giving way at the roundabout. Everyone told me always look to your right at the roundabout. Can you please clarify this?

I also feel giving way to the right becomes problem at a busy roundabout when there are 10 cars lined up on your right and as many in your front.

What's the right way to enter a roundabout then?

[pradeepkandel]

I have 1 question regarding No 3.
If i arrive first at the roundabout and about to turn right, should i give way to traffic coming from opposite direction which are going straight. In normal intersection, we normally wait and let the vehicles go.
And are these rules same for small and big roundabouts???