STATUS AT THE INTERSECTION.

STATUS AT THE INTERSECTION. In a heirarchy, often the higher ranking person insist on deference when it is owed. I read an article some time ago about the peculiarities of the rule in Belgium that the car on the right has the right of way. The article discussed other rules for right of way. The most interesting was that before the French Revolution, when two carriages met, the higher ranking person had the right of way. Occasionally, the coats of arms on the carriages did not make precedence clear, in which case there might be a fight between the servants.