unregulated intersections??? thats madness, how do you know who has the right of way?
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there's always some rule... in Germany it's 'rechts vor links' or 'right before left' which is like the US 4-way stop rule where if 2 cars stop at the same time the one on the right has the right-of-way. most major roads have an indicator sign (usually a yellow and black diamond) that designates that they have the right of way or an inverse yield-sign and then smaller roads usually have a yield sign...
i don't know if this is 'international' on the Continent here or what? i guess our Sweedish and English and Dutch members can answer that one...
but it works pretty well, except about 2 months ago on a road i ride almost every day home from my work commute, i have one of the right-of-way signs and the cross-road has a yield, so i continued on at 30kmh or so as a car approached from the right. then he kept coming at like 35kmh or so... i slowed and he locked up the brakes and i stopped about 2 feet before him. the guy starts yelling at me in German and screaming 'rechts vor links' - i'm consufed b/c my German is OK but not great and i don't know all the road laws, but i thought i understood this one. i pointed to my sign and tried to explain that 'rechts-vor-links' didn't apply, but i wasn't completely sure i was right, so i didn't assert myself like i would have otherwise. Then his wife (he had 2 kids in the back too) rools down the window and starts calling me an idoit cyclist and how i should know how to ride, etc. etc. etc. anyway, i rode off and questioned myself the whole day. went back the next day and examined all the signs and THEY had a huge YEILD sign in addition to my sign indicating I had right-of-way, plus i asked a few locals --- so THEY were the idiots who didn't know how to pay attention to signs... (annoys me b/c they could have killed me and THEN criticized MY actions) ---- anyway, the only problem was that these people THOUGH it was unregulated and thus right-before-left when in fact there was a huge YIELD sign there --- so no problem with the law, just their inability to pay attention...