Do you have to give way to the driver in front of you if you start moving from the parking lot at the same time?

Explanation

Yes, you must give way. You are behind the wheel inside a car park (the P sign is visible on the right) with your left indicator on, while the dark car ahead has also signalled and is moving off at the same moment. Starting off is a manoeuvre and sits at the very bottom of the priority hierarchy: whoever moves off must first make sure the way is clear and that they obstruct no one. The two manoeuvres being simultaneous does not remove that duty — it simply means the other driver has exactly the same one. The trap is the word simultaneously: the mind reads it as neither of us is obliged, whereas it actually means both of us are, and in a car park with parked cars and pillars blocking the view, going first means accepting full responsibility.

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