alt Hacker NewsInteresting, I've driven in 15 different European countries and found France to be one of the easiest and most chill. I mean, on the highways and city streets, anyways -- not so much on the farmland single-lane roads that shockingly have a speed limit of 90km/h lol ... but regardless, the "people merging in from the right have the right-of-way" actually makes sense to me since they're engaging in the most "high-pressure" action, while those of us strolling along on the highway can just adjust our speed to give them space, or change lanes ahead of time as needed.
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> "people merging in from the right have the right-of-way" actually makes sense to me
Yeah but they don't; priority to the right never happens on motorways, all insertions lanes have “Cédez le passage” signs.
For somebody with seemingly so much experience its interesting how incorrect yet confident you are. Maybe less bragging about meaningless numbers (kms driven are much more important) and more fact-checking in the future?
I don't think they're talking about merging on a highway?
Sounds like they're talking about the fact that at an intersection, unless signaled otherwise, the people coming from the right have right of way.
People merging have right of way only on the parisian périphérique. On all other motorways in France, the merging cars must yield.
It is common courtesy to move over or match speed so they can merge more easily, but that's not the law.