Core: Giving priority versus letting go first: two terms, not synonyms

Letting the other driver continue on their way unhindered — braking in time, stopping at the right spot. This is the term for crossing traffic: the rechts-regel at an equal-rank junction, or the rule at a priority road. Letting go first belongs to a completely different category: your own special manoeuvre — driving off from the side of the road, leaving a driveway or private property, merging onto another road, reversing. In all these cases you are the one doing something special, and you must let all other traffic go first. The book also gives a third, separate application of 'letting go first': you must always let people with a white cane and people who have difficulty moving around go first — that 'always' makes it a general traffic duty, not tied to one junction type or manoeuvre. The two terms are therefore not synonyms: 'giving priority' governs who may go first in crossing traffic; 'letting go first' governs what you must do when you yourself undertake something special, plus that one absolute duty toward vulnerable pedestrians.