Re: quattro-digest V4 #454

[Nivi@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-03-13 07:40:20 EST, David Weiss
<dzweiss@worldnet.att.net> writes:

<< Worked in Antwerp in '89, and the first thing I learned was the "right
 hand rule", which works differently than here in the States.  In
 Belgium, unless there are traffic controls (eg. signals) the guy on the
 right has the right of way, period.  So if you're on the a main drag and
 a guy comes out of a side street into your path, it's your fault if you
 hit him!  The exception is if he "hesitates" at the intersection, he is
 presumed to have yielded the right of way. >>

That's correct in most European countries....I was stunned to when my
German/Swedish girlfriend (at the time) kept repeating that to me when I was
driving around Zurich...not that I was a speed demon or anything, just
maintaining the "US method" of right of way....

That's true in Switzerland and Germany....

Dorab (nivi@aol.com)
1993 S4
1990 CQ
1986 Caprice