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Originally Posted by PanEuropean
I'm going to guess that the German driver who cut you off in the UK was probably used to looking in the opposite direction (to the left, rather than to the right) to check and see if there was oncoming traffic already in the roundabout. There is also the possibility that if traffic was backed up both within the roundabout and at the approaches to the roundabout, the German driver was following the "zipper merge" protocol that is common in Germany.
Michael
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As a german driving first time in London 35yrs ago I organized a pretty nice chaos on the streets. Switching my brain from german legal right side to drive on the left side overwelmed me at first. Also I was impressed by the courtesy and coolness of british drivers when I used a oneway street from the wrong side...
So I think that guy from the roundabout had maybe similar problems...
In Germany roundabout rules are shown by EU right way signs. Normally when you want to enter a roundabout, you have to wait and to give way to drivers who are allready in. If these common rule is not valid you will find a massive amount of traffic sights in and around the roundabout. (Germans traffic authorities love to put massive amounts of signs for everything near the street).
Zipper merge is a common rule in Germany when 2 lanes get to one. In that case you have the right to drive to the end of the ending lane and to zipper into the other lane. The driver on the other lane should give you by law the right of your way.
But please be carefull with this because of the german driver mentalty. Be sure that you will meet a lot of drivers who doesn`t know or accept or ignore that rule because they are always willing to be the first or they drives a bigger, faster or expensive vehicle than you.
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