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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
According ICBC's " Learn to Drive Smart" guide, the circular concrete planters used in residential neighborhoods, typically where you'd often see a 4-way stop, are "Traffic Circles", while the larger lane-controlled circular intersections are "Roundabouts".
It's important to distinguish between the two, because the rules are different. When there's a traffic conflict, you have to yield to the person on the right in a traffic circle (just like at an uncontrolled intersection), while in a roundabout you have to yield to the person on your left (i.e., "traffic already in the circle") |
In both one yields to traffic already inside the circle. The difference is that in a traffic circle IF two vehicles arrive at the same time they yield to the right; roundabouts are big enough that traffic arriving at the same time the would never be in conflict.
If Vehicle A arrives to a traffic circle slightly before and to the left of Vehicle B Vehicle A has right of way.
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