When I can clearly see you on your phone, yes.
Head down looking at their lap instead of driving. Straight to jail.
If only, sadly even doing that while you drive over human speed bumps is ok
they race up behind you, tailgate you, swerve to pass you in the next lane, then take several seconds to get going at the light, all while I’m still coasting in gently because I timed the light change
goddamn right I’m up their ass honking at them. get a fucking move on dipshit
In Spain you would have to wait for 5-10 seconds without moving for anyone to honk. At least where I live. People just don’t usually get angry about it. I don’t expect anyone to stare at the red light like it’s a race track. Maybe someone is adjusting the radio, maybe they are putting on sunglasses. I mean, I don’t care, I can arrive 5 seconds later. 99% of drivers here think the same.
I once worked with a British guy here. He drove me somewhere couple of times and he would always complain at how long Spanish drivers take to start when light changes. He crashed and totaled his car soon after. Slipped on a slightly wet asphalt and went out of the road. For me it’s typical that the worse drivers are the impatient ones. Just relax, it’s not a race.
So I can appreciate all of this. It is not a race. I can wait 5 seconds. I think I’ll give a toot at 5 seconds, because 5 seconds is legit a lot of time to not be looking where you’re supposed to be. And I have lights in my town that go green for 15-20s, before going red again for 45-60s. So when you eat up 25-33% of the green signal, it’s kinda rude, and so a double toot, to me, is more than appropriate.
I think that if people are getting offended by the green light time other driver are eating up it means that driving has way too high priority in their life. I mean, I get it, but it’s kind of sad.
Yes, green means go!11! Even there’s an old lady that just didn’t finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.
My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because “it’s green!”. I don’t know the term in English but in French it’s a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!
“Don’t block the box” is the common saying for the law in the states.
You draw a square in the intersection and that’s a “don’t stop here” zone.
Folks will pull into it and wait, and they block the view for anyone behind them too.
“Gridlock” is the term for when a street is fully locked up and cars are blocking the intersections
What bothers me are the people who do go when the light turns green, but take their damn sweet time to do it…
Eeeease oofffff the braaaake…. Mooove fooot toooo gaaaaassssss… Creeeeep into intersection at 0.05mph….
…just as long as they get through before the light turns red again, fuck everyone behind them, I guess.
Fuck those people.
Yeah, personally I’m all about clear the intersection. There’s conflicting movements and it’s a bottleneck, let’s all get through as efficiently as we can. This doesn’t mean flooring it, but we can at least apply some throttle, and not just through but beyond the intersection, because contrary to what some folks believe, there are people on the road other than you.
Can’t help but think if the light really just turned green, or if OP just noticed it was green and assumed it just changed but had been green for a while.
You’re in pole position, you have a responsibility to those behind you. Be considerate and pay attention.
Yeah, and for anyone concerned, this doesn’t mean jam on the gas, but you got a make some move. You can be conscious of intersecting traffic and whether they’ve actually come to a stop, as well as aware of everyone behind you apparently being in a huge hurry, because they always are. So take your foot off the brake, let me see those brake lights go away, and it’s at least a signal to everyone that we are underway here at Silverstone.
I live in an area where I think the worst drivers in the US live. I absolutely hate people who honk as soon as the light turns green. You don’t know what I can see, you don’t know if it is safe to go. Because sometimes it isn’t. I’ve had to learn to still look both ways after the light turns green because almost once a week (and I only drive 2-4 days most weeks) I see someone completely blow the red going 60 in a 45.
I also blame phones for traffic, because it goes the other way too. Why did you miss that green, because 3 people in front of you were on their phones. I usually give a slow 5 count before giving a beep.
The light is green. Why are you not moving?
I assume the person in front is waiting for the red light runners to clear the intersection before starting.
I saw someone do that in Korea. The guy in front immediately stops the car and sits there for like 2 minutes as the guy behind honks and eventually does like a 7 point turn to go around.
Physicists have discovered that the shortest division of time possible is the time between the light turning green and the car behind you honking.
A “New York minute” is defined as the time between when the light turns green and when a New York driver will honk their horn at you.
I knew it as “New York Second”, and that it is the shortest time interval measurable by science.
I think ppl did it so much it became a challenge at some point.
youtube.com/shorts/ehECSg43LrE
youtube.com/shorts/P5_xzrNwWSU
youtube.com/shorts/s6_BOdKnex4Huh American lights don’t go amber first, just straight to green.
Also those shorts made my blood pressure rise.
Actually the drivers should consider the distances of cars to the traffic lights in relation to the speed of light and sound in the surrounding air - it would be more optimal if the waiting driver would start honking a bit earlier than the green light turns on so that the honk sound would reach the slow driver at the time the light from the green light reaches them.
(It just isn’t optimal to wait the green light to pass two or more cars & then the additional wait time for the slow sound to reach the driver holding up the line in the front.)
Is physical violence common on RuPaul’s show?🤔
A lot of places in east asia have red light timers. If theres nobody coming, people will start when theres like 3 seconds left.
That feels like an argument for why red light timers for cars might be a bad idea.
Like, you can understand the intent - by giving extra information, drivers know how long they have to wait and so won’t get as annoyed - but that same extra information encourages drivers to take risks, and start moving even earlier than they would with just a simple red/amber/green
I think it would be disastrous in America or Korea, but it seems to work here and it would probably work in Japan.
Nanosecond is a period between traffic light going green and somebody from behind honks.
