Drivers left baffled by ultimate RACQ merging road rule quiz

Merging has long been a cause of confusion among drivers, with hundreds partaking in a RACQ road rules quiz expressing their frustration.

Drivers have been posed a particularly polarising question about merging in a puzzling road rule quiz that has divided hundreds.

The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) on Wednesday shared a graphic depicting two hypothetical merging instances to Facebook, asking motorists to identify which vehicles should give way.

In the first instance – scenario A – a blue car was indicating out of a lane that was about to end to join a line of traffic occupied by a yellow car.

The dotted lines were ending and the blue car was positioned slightly ahead of the yellow.

The other instance – scenario B – depicted a blue car once again indicating out of an ending lane and into one with a yellow car, also slightly behind it, but this time the dotted lines continued.

Drivers have been posed the ultimate merging question. Picture: RACQ

The RACQ asked Facebook users to respond with which car they thought should give way in each of the situations.

Almost 600 drivers responded to the tricky quiz, many of which struggled to come up with the correct answer.

“I know there is rules, but I let the one go who’s in front. It’s the easiest way I reckon,” one person’s response read.

“In reality neither will [give way]. Both will speed up trying to get ahead of the other,” someone else argued.

Given the diversity of answers and many being incorrect, many agreed that “a lot of people need to read the road rules again”.

“I just get blown away by seeing how many people actually have no clue about the road rules. No wonder there are so many accidents and fatalities on our roads,” another wrote.

The RACQ later updated the post to settle the disagreements and explain which cars were actually entitled to move first.

The yellow car had to give way in scenario A because it was behind the blue car on a road with no markings.

In scenario B, the blue car had to give way because markings showed its lane coming to an end, therefore requiring it to treat merging as though it was changing lanes.