Entering a roundabout or traffic circle
A free practice question for the New York permit test, with the answer explained.
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You're about to enter a roundabout. Who has the right of way?
The rule
Approaching a roundabout, traffic circle or rotary, yield to traffic already in it: look left and enter from the yield line only when there is a big enough gap.
Roundabouts use yield at entry: look to the left and wait for a gap in the circling traffic before you enter.
From the New York State Driver's Manual, page 50. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
Often mixed up with
People confuse these rules with this one. Each has its own practice question.
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