I’m in no rush to be anywhere, anytime. If my caution and safety are a detriment to your schedule, that’s your problem. Maybe you should leave with more time to get wherever you’re going safely instead of trying to rush the yellow lights and put everyone else’s lives at risk.
Yellow means it’s turning red. Beyond that the safest way to treat it is how everyone else in the area treats it. It’s like what I tell my stepson, it’s better to be predictable than right. There’s a lot of dead pedestrians and cyclists that had the right of way.
I was approaching an intersection and someone made their left slowly in front of me causing me to slow down as I approached and I kept going cause it was turning yellow and could still make it and got honked like hell.
Next day I saw a light turning yellow well ahead of me so I applied the brake early because it’s like a 70(km/h) to signal that I’m going to stop and then stopped before crossing. The person behind me didn’t anticipate that and turned at the last second to just miss rear-ending me. My brake lights were active for a hell of a long time so I’m not sure what they were doing.
I say both of these stories because I hate driving in general…
I have been an aggressive driver in the past, but I’ve gotta say that some serious time in developing nations has really chilled me the fuck out.
One coworker said his commute was his favourite time of day, because he just putters along at 20mph on his scooter and feels at peace with the world … I could use that in my life :-)
I’m in no rush to be anywhere, anytime. If my caution and safety are a detriment to your schedule, that’s your problem. Maybe you should leave with more time to get wherever you’re going safely instead of trying to rush the yellow lights and put everyone else’s lives at risk.
This. Yellow means stop if you can (edit: if you can safely)
Yellow means it’s turning red. Beyond that the safest way to treat it is how everyone else in the area treats it. It’s like what I tell my stepson, it’s better to be predictable than right. There’s a lot of dead pedestrians and cyclists that had the right of way.
Agreed that predictability is the priority on the road. But people shouldn’t be expecting everyone to rush through yellows with disregard either.
As a driver should be expecting it, but not upset when they don’t.
As a pedestrian you have to expect it, and be pleasantly surprised when they do.
I had two different instances of a yellow light.
I was approaching an intersection and someone made their left slowly in front of me causing me to slow down as I approached and I kept going cause it was turning yellow and could still make it and got honked like hell.
Next day I saw a light turning yellow well ahead of me so I applied the brake early because it’s like a 70(km/h) to signal that I’m going to stop and then stopped before crossing. The person behind me didn’t anticipate that and turned at the last second to just miss rear-ending me. My brake lights were active for a hell of a long time so I’m not sure what they were doing.
I say both of these stories because I hate driving in general…
I have been an aggressive driver in the past, but I’ve gotta say that some serious time in developing nations has really chilled me the fuck out.
One coworker said his commute was his favourite time of day, because he just putters along at 20mph on his scooter and feels at peace with the world … I could use that in my life :-)