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Written By Bheema.Upadhyaya - 24 February, 2011
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Well having practiced for few weeks now DDs must have come across various situations scenarios. Whatever I faced , I am asking you as quiz so that we know how a DDs would react to specific scene. For example today, I came across a scenario which I am asking DDs , how would you react.
Mark your answer as a comment to this post. Make sure that your answer is substanciated with logics. Some of quiz items may create ambiguity because of conflict between law, discipline, courtesy, common sense, prevailing conditions etc.
Q1.
Location: Near Hosa Road. A barricade is setup without prior indication.
Traffic Condition: Heavy and peak hour and you are in hurry to reach office too.
Situation : You are in middle lane. A (new??) biker has following left lane since Singasandra sinicierly. All of a sudden barricade appears, he is stuck up for a long. When you approach he tries to squeeze into your lane and honking recklessly. He does not even look at you to request for a way, but squeezing from your left. What would you do?
COMMENTS
bhanupriya k - 24 February, 2011 - 16:39
Well i would probably let him go if i can see the barricade. I guess one can always make out to some extent why the person is trying to sqeeze into your lane, so if it seems fair enough then i think we should let them. We might have also been in the same situation as him at some point, so its only fair we let them.
I might let him go if he is humble enough but not if he reckless
dvsquare - 24 February, 2011 - 17:31
Hi,
I have also driven in US for a shorter time and generally if someone does something wrong or try to come into the right lane from the wrong one, generally it comes as a request and he is given the way to come into right lane. But we cannot apply the same to same logic here, but atleast if that biker is reckless, constantly honking and trying to squeeze in without any thought, I will not let him go if I don't see any danger to my car because of him, otherwise I have to let him go sadly.
R V Raja Rao - 24 February, 2011 - 08:46
I will not allow him to pass through because of his reckless honking. I will squeeze through.
r v raja rao
sanjayv - 24 February, 2011 - 10:52
I will let him pass through.
Paranjit Mahanta - 25 February, 2011 - 08:57
it is a merging situation. the biker or anybody else on the left path which is barricaded, has right of way. as traffic is stated to be heavy {i guess packed } , d technique is alternate merging. here, the biker has obviously waited when the vehicle in front of you { in middle lane } passed him, so he has the right of way. if i were in a hurry, i would check if it were possible to move over to the right to make space for d biker. if that was not possible, i would give a customary honk to persuade him to keep waiting. but unless i m in a great hurry, and no one is honking hard beside me on d right, or behind me asking me to push ahead, i will yield n let him merge..
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