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You're driving down the road. There are two lanes of traffic going your way, and you're in the left-hand one. There are cars to your right, and cars behind you. An intersection approaches.
You suddenly realize you want to turn right at the upcoming intersection. However, there's still a car right next to you. You start slowing down, just as the upcoming light turns yellow, but the car next to you slows down as well (for obvious reasons), preventing you from merging over.
You stop at the light.
Do you....
1. Go straight when it's green again, attempt to turn around ahead, and make the correct turn?
2. Wait for the green, then attempt to merge after the car next to you has gone so you can make your turn?
3. Wait half a second, then make a sudden right-on-red from the left-hand lane?
If you chose #3, congratulations, you're the car to my left yesterday.
They were slightly behind me approaching the intersection, so I don't know if they had any sort of turn signal on when they suddenly decided they needed to be right where I was. Then they started slowing down, but I thought it was for the light, since we were just far enough back when it turned yellow that we needed to slow and stop anyway. I thought they were being a bit preemptive, but it was a welcome change from most drivers around here who gun it and end up running the red light. But no, they weren't slowing to stop, they were slowing because they were hoping that I would gun it so they could merge over and make their right turn. And when I proceeded to actually stop for the red light, they hit the gas and made a right-on-red from the left-hand lane. ::sigh::
Bonus Sighting: On my way back from the grocery store today, I was waiting at a red light in the left-turn lane. Big van to my right. My light changed to a green arrow, but the van's light was still red. Just as I started my turn, I heard the van's engine roar as it jumped forward a bit, ending up half a carlength ahead of where it had been before it realized it didn't have the green yet.
Pay attention, people!
You suddenly realize you want to turn right at the upcoming intersection. However, there's still a car right next to you. You start slowing down, just as the upcoming light turns yellow, but the car next to you slows down as well (for obvious reasons), preventing you from merging over.
You stop at the light.
Do you....
1. Go straight when it's green again, attempt to turn around ahead, and make the correct turn?
2. Wait for the green, then attempt to merge after the car next to you has gone so you can make your turn?
3. Wait half a second, then make a sudden right-on-red from the left-hand lane?
If you chose #3, congratulations, you're the car to my left yesterday.
They were slightly behind me approaching the intersection, so I don't know if they had any sort of turn signal on when they suddenly decided they needed to be right where I was. Then they started slowing down, but I thought it was for the light, since we were just far enough back when it turned yellow that we needed to slow and stop anyway. I thought they were being a bit preemptive, but it was a welcome change from most drivers around here who gun it and end up running the red light. But no, they weren't slowing to stop, they were slowing because they were hoping that I would gun it so they could merge over and make their right turn. And when I proceeded to actually stop for the red light, they hit the gas and made a right-on-red from the left-hand lane. ::sigh::
Bonus Sighting: On my way back from the grocery store today, I was waiting at a red light in the left-turn lane. Big van to my right. My light changed to a green arrow, but the van's light was still red. Just as I started my turn, I heard the van's engine roar as it jumped forward a bit, ending up half a carlength ahead of where it had been before it realized it didn't have the green yet.
Pay attention, people!
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