Would you?

[DRZ]

Its late at night on a fairly unused strech of road (think dead at rush hour and you get the idea). You are giving it some serious beans because you think you are Senna and you know the road VERY well - you have been using both sides of the road etc up until now...

Up ahead is a roundabout, you want to take the 2nd exit on the roundabout. Its NSL, its fairly tight and you can see pretty much clearly in all directions - there isnt another road user to be seen.

The 'racing line' is the wrong way around the roundabout - would you take the racing line or would you conform to the rules of the road?

(If this gets heated enough, perhaps a poll?)

 

[DRZ]

In the dead of the night, when I'm driving home, I always wonder what it would be like to pass an obstacle (round-about/traffic island) on the wrong side of the road, but I leave it at that. I never act upon it, I conform to the rules of the road.

Traffic islands are rarely found on places where you would be giving it enough beans to consider passing it on the wrong side and usually they indicate some sort of hazard and so I generally pass them at reduced pace on the correct side of the road.

I cant think of one example where there is one on a road I know that I like to "press on" along.

Roundabouts could be a different matter though, hence the thread

 

[DRZ]

The roundabout in question isnt a mini roundabout, its a full-bore roundabout, albeit quite small.

Taking it 'normally' you have to slow to perhaps 20mph. From looking at it, I would guess that if you could turn off the part of your brain that handles fear, you could take that roundabout at 40+ using the wrong side of it.

I just couldnt bring myself to do it - I can happily use both sides of the road when needs be but to do that to a roundabout just seemed... wrong. I just couldnt do it!