The vehicle decided to go into oncoming traffic to clear a light change?! What type of an excuse is that. The vehicle should not have been in an intersection it is unable to clear.
Nothing annoys humans more than someone who obeys traffic laws in front of them. I've read the vehicle code, i know where you're supposed to leave gaps, time to clear, how long to stop. People get mighty aggressive if they perceive you as "losing them time".
At least here in the deep south people don't pack intersections before a light change like they did in southern california, that made driving way more tedious than it needed to be. Nothing like being at the front of the line, light changes in your favor, and you gotta wait for all the late-left-turn people sitting in the intersection.
eta: after watching the video; I've never seen a human do this without being impaired in some way. That is, i've only seen this a couple of times, and it was obvious the person shouldn't have been driving.
I've driven in many states, and IMO the state doesn't matter (north/south etc), but the metro size. The bigger the city -- the worse people drive. E.g. Chicago is pretty bad, being north.
>At least here in the deep south people don't pack intersections before a light change like they did in southern california, that made driving way more tedious than it needed to be.
In many many many intersections in LA, there is no protected left, so the only way to turn left is to sit in the intersection and then turn on red. I’ve seen a lot of people from the suburbs not understand this, and let 2 or 3 cycles of the light go by before they realize. And everyone sitting behind them waiting to also turn left gets (understandably imo) really annoyed.
genewitch|1 year ago
At least here in the deep south people don't pack intersections before a light change like they did in southern california, that made driving way more tedious than it needed to be. Nothing like being at the front of the line, light changes in your favor, and you gotta wait for all the late-left-turn people sitting in the intersection.
eta: after watching the video; I've never seen a human do this without being impaired in some way. That is, i've only seen this a couple of times, and it was obvious the person shouldn't have been driving.
deepsun|1 year ago
jesseendahl|1 year ago
In many many many intersections in LA, there is no protected left, so the only way to turn left is to sit in the intersection and then turn on red. I’ve seen a lot of people from the suburbs not understand this, and let 2 or 3 cycles of the light go by before they realize. And everyone sitting behind them waiting to also turn left gets (understandably imo) really annoyed.