TripleS wrote:It will surprise no one to learn that I normally steer a course that feels natural, which means I drive over the hatched areas, which I regard as being 'necessary.'
As you say Dave, there are many hatched areas that have virtually no taper. As an examiner once said to one of my ex pupils when she passed her test, "You tried very hard to keep out of the hatched areas when entering right turn boxes. Some are so sharp that you simply have to cut across the hatched area to enter the box as the car can not just lurch sideways. The examiner who took me for my IAM test, an ex Met class 1 when asked about the large hatched area on the Oakly Roundabout on the A349 between Wimborne and Poole and whether it would be
acceptable to cross the hatchings replied, "they're surrounded by broken lines, drive over the bloody things, they're totally unnecessary and you're likely to get someone try to overtake you if you go out wide to pass round them."
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