Consensus is in favour of the rule change. Allister disagrees, instead claming that driver education is the only improvement that makes any sense, he doesn’t believe that any politiciens have the courgage to do that even though their government is obviously elected by the people, thus assuming bad faith. He believes that those supporting the Government’s position on the rule change just believe what they read in the media and are willing to believe that the government knows what’s best for them, as if New Zealand were an autocracy? Let’s go through takes one and two of the attempted debunking, it’s been there for a few years and hasn’t convinced peolpe to change their minds.
I’ll start with argument 3 because you migrated here; Say you are the only foreign visitor on the road and you are the one that runs into one of the locals, are they going to be in less sore. But if you drive on the right in your own country, should you really be driving in New Zealand on a US license? True or false? If we let people drive on a foreign license, there should not be any rules that confuse them. And by the way, our hook turn only applies to motor vehicles at very few intersections where it is clearly signed.
Now onto argument 2, the rule is said be confusing and many of those people do readily accept that many peolpe don’t even know the rule. I think that idea in this case is that given that many people are caught out by this rule and New Zealand is the only country with it, many people thus assume there is a good reason the rest of the world doesn’t use it.
As the rules currently stand, those turning right give way to straight ahead traffic and those turning left give way to right turners as well as pedestrians crossing the side street, this means that left turners need to make greater use of their visual field. Also, if you are turning left, whether you are requried to give way to the other vehicle depends on whether it is turning right, if you are going straight, you are not requried to give way to any opposing traffic, whether or not it is turing across your path, this means that a left turner may fail to give way if they fail to recognsie the other driver’s intention to turn right.
Regarding New Zealand’s medical standards for driving, the minimum visual field is only 140 degrees, whether for personal or commercial use, but the normal human visual field is more like 170 degrees. The average visual acuity of the healthy eye is between 20/12 and 20/16, but the minimum for driving in New Zealand for personal/non-commercial use is 20/40 in at least one eye, for commercial licences it is 20/30 in at least one eye. Stereopsis is not mentioned at all, but colour vision is. There is no explicit requirement for colour vision. But:

Some studies indicate that individuals with a protan defect have a reduced visual distance for detecting vehicle tail lights and red traffic signal lights, and may have an increased nose-to-tail collision rate.

Reduced visual distance for detecting brake lights is going to be much more of a problem if one also can’t see 3D, and how much it reduces that visual distance may depend on visual acuity. The visual distance for seeing brake lights and vehicle tail lights is probably more critical when driving at night and at times of restricited visibility than on a clear day, since designated drivers are likely to be driving at night, would it be best not to select a protan as a designated driver. I have wondered whether protanopia may even reduce visual distance for detecting turn signals, particularly if the turning vehicle has its headlights on, making the left turn yield rule even more confusing.
No mention is made as to whether driver vision test scores are notified in the license data, or whether visual impairments that do not legally disqualify one from driving are notified on a license. And would a recently successful moting license applicent voulenteer information about driving difficulties, and would you expect a visually impaired driver involved in an accident to voulenteer information about their visual ability, do police rountienly ask about vision problems?
True or false? Warning a tourist about the right hand turn rule may be like warning a blind person to make a full stop when they see a red light, if that visitor has a vision problem that nevertheless does not stop then from being “good” drivers in their own country, at least for personal/non-commercial purposes.
And lastly argument 1, Allister appears to be correct in that the blue car is compelled to wait, the red car slipping round the corner as long as there is room for the Yellow car to overtake, but it mean that the driver of the blue car needs to check for vehicles behind the red car that are going straight, could this be a difficulty for the stereoblind?

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I still favour CDs for any music I truly love, but downloads are fine for much. It would be nice if higher quality downloads were available, such as FLAC or better still, 5.1 channel formats. But the majority of music available today is still in stereo and the 256kbit AAC and 320kbit MP3 available are more than good enough for most.