I think you are allowed to briefly go faster than speed limit to pass. I also think it’s safer not to drive directly next to another car.
Eta: googling, i see this varies by state.
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Very few states explicitly allow it, although a few do. Most people assume that it’s legal when it’s not, and few cops will enforce any speeding laws anyway.
It is certainly de facto legal in more places than it’s de jure legal.
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I dunno US but here, you do signal left when entering a roundabout. Signal right if taking the first exit, no signal if taking second exit, left if taking the third.
Turn off when I. Roundabout, the signal right to exit the roundabout.
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I figure this makes sense if it is a high speed roundabout, with a significant turn to the right before joining. That would make it like a “I’m merging to the left”. The low speed commercial center roundabout nearest me doesn’t have much turn to the right before entering, it is almost a t into the circle. If I saw someone signaling left at that, I’d panic (especially considering local drivers and roundabouts).
Are there many roundabouts with rightmost lanes that are exit only? You’d have a protected entry, but have to merge to go further than 1st exit. If such a thing existed, I’d only signal left if going past the 1st exit. I suppose it would have to be a large roundabout.
Huh, here there’s generally no place to go other than the roundabout, so people don’t signal when entering it. I believe you are supposed to signal (right) before exiting, but few people do.
I was following a car into a roundabout and he did the left turn to go the wrong way in the roundabout. I was going the same place he was and I went around and exited the same place he did. I was a little shocked and slowed down more than normal to make sure he exited at the 90 degree left turn where I was headed so I was sure we wouldn’t meet at some place around the other side. I was dumbfounded.
There there was the guy who had stopped at the entrance to my right for a car and I was following the car he stopped for but there was a little space in between and he took off after the car but I had to hit my breaks to not crash into him. He honked and flipped me off and continued yelling. The road then goes under the freeway and there is another roundabout on the other side. He stopped halfway through the round about got out and came back to scream at me more. For a minute I was actually fearful he was going to attack me and I had my granddaughter in a car seat in the back. Luckily she had fallen asleep and didn’t witness this idiot or my idiotic response.
Though the best was one day it was found that some vehicle, over night, had simply gone straight through the center of the roundabout. I don’t think they ever found him but the city had to replace quite a lot of the landscaping they had in the middle. Probably a reason to have something big and fairly unmovable in the middle or not.
Yeah, when I had to take the written test to get my Utah DL back when I moved back, the test was open book and I looked up one or 2 questions to ensure I got them right and then ended up missing 3 questions (still way above the pass mark). One of the questions I missed was “When is it permissible to exceed the posted speed limit?” and one of the choices was to pass which is what I chose and got wrong.
I argued with the guy that if you were on a 2 lane road with a speed limit of 55mph and come upon a vehicle going 52 or 53, that you would have to be in the oncoming traffic lane for quite a while to pass if you didn’t exceed the 55mph posted speed limit. He just said, “then I guess you shouldn’t pass.” And looking it up in the manual, Utah must be one of those states.
I was pretty sure when I took Drivers Ed in HS that one of the films we saw showed how when passing in that situation you would wait for the lines on the road to tell you it was OK to pass and that you could see far enough to pass safely, then you would move into the other lane and accelerate until you were passed the vehicle and then decelerate as you moved back into your original lane. Maybe the changed the law after I got my DL at 16.
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I thought it was right signal just before your exit. Didn’t realize it was this complicated!! 
One of the most common mistakes that people use on roundabouts is signaling incorrectly, or not at all. When appropriately used, indicators can be an excellent way to increase safety and convenience on a roundabout, by letting those around you know of your intentions. A good rule of thumb is to always signal immediately before your exit, using your right indicator, just as you would when turning. Correct indication on a roundabout goes as follows:
–When turning right (first exit), signal right as with a normal right turn.
–When going straight ahead, no signal upon entering, signal as you approach your exit.
–When turning left (last exit/three-quarters around), signal left upon entering, switch to right as you come to the exit.
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I will keep this in mind the next time I hit a roundabout!!! 
Poland already has flying cars?!
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I guess the car in my town wasn’t going quite that fast because there were large tire track clear across the landscaping kind of similar to what that roundabout has in the middle.
I was on the bike path today, and it has several roundabouts. I was going left at one and there was no traffic and I went through it backwards. Total anarchy.
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Was this bike path adjacent to an automobile-carrying-road? I’ve never seen a bike-only path with a roundabout. That would be kind of cool, yet, with the way many of my fellow bicyclists ride, also total anarchy.
The bike path is top to bottom, sidewalks are out the sides there, although all are really shared by walkers and bikers.
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Are there any signs directing traffic? While it looks like a roundabout I doubt I would go around to go under 15th street coming from left on bottom or right on top. Doubt I would go around if going straight either.
Unless there were signs directing bike traffic in particular way, I would probably take the shortest route. Of course if this were my turn around point, I would go all the way around if I were intending to say on the same path I arrived on.
There are signs indicating that you’re to go counterclockwise.
Did you use your turn signal when you left the roundabout?
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