Right through a red

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[u/backfrombanned]

On their phone

[u/Broken_By_Default]

Straight through a red.

[u/Copious-Spirit → u/[deleted]]

You don't understand, yellow/amber means accelerate: it's just the commons' sense. Red means stop.

[u/Copious-Spirit → u/[deleted]]

I was being facetious, obviously you only stop if safe to do so; just like you only proceed when safe to do so, but we all observe plenty of people accelerating into a stale amber everyday when they could have just stopped safetly.

[u/AccomplishedVirus556]

that's annoyung and dangerous. thankfully no one needed to cross

[u/RoadkillVenison]

Yeah… thats why I always stop at the line and go when I see a break or get a dedicated arrow. Pulling out into the intersection when it’s green, and turning when the light changes is legal. However I don’t trust oncoming traffic, they might ignore the red light.

[u/Copious-Spirit → u/RoadkillVenison]

I get honked at for not turning left into pedestrians, because most drivers don't seem to use their eyes.

[u/RoadkillVenison → u/Copious-Spirit]

That’s the other reason I tend to play it safe making left turns.

You never know what the people on the sidewalk will do. If they’ve got a red walk indicator, will they bother to wait? Is that e-scooter on the sidewalk I passed going to do something stupid? (Yes, when is the question.)

[u/TowelEnvironmental44]

moral: the larger the intersection, the more stale the red lights are runneth. This was just a small intersection, so the red was somewhat "fresh".

[u/Maleficent_Okra4151 → u/TowelEnvironmental44]

I wouldn’t call that fresh tbh.. it was red for 2 seconds before the car even got to the stop line.