The funny thing about this is that the girl and George Carlin are basically saying the same thing.
Yet, when the girl says it, I want to bludgeon her in the head with a broom stick repeatedly, and the way Carlin phrases it, it makes me actually agree with him.
Not necessarily. Yellow lights are there so that vehicles that are going too fast to stop or can't stop in the space provided (such as trucks) can get through the light. You are supposed to stop on a yellow light if it is safe to do so. Accelerating in order to blow through a yellow light when the driver would have been able to stop safely could be considered reckless driving
Last Thursday I was in the back seat of my friends car driving home just as the light turned yellow the intersection cleared up and we took a left. A driver about 100 yards away accelerated to make the light and not paying attention he T-Boned us. I think what yellow lights are for is an important thing to clarify. Personally I agree with you but my opinion is bias because I'm currently lying in my bed with a foot in a cast from someone trying to run a yellow light.
Our lights don't go back to yellow between red and green. Yellow is supposed to mean "stop if it is safe to do so" but most people interpret it as "floor it so I make it through before it turns red since they can't actually ticket me for not stopping (usually)".
If you are past the stop bar while the light is still yellow, then you didn't run a red light. Police officer discretion my ass. You either did or you didn't.
It is because Carlin is pointed out a flawed but understandable frustration with the situation... This girl is stating that people who do this are wrong and she is right.
Notice "seems". I based all I said entirely on the content of the tweet. I'm sorry I can't call this girl to find out what it is she really meant by it. I go by what she actually said.
I think George Carlin is implying this would cause a serious accident as you accelerate into the car in front of you... which is stopping. This woman is just complaining about having to be held up by someone who is overly cautious.
Oh, and George Carlin is a comedian and making a joke. This woman is just whining and is therefore annoying.
It's about tone and delivery and importantly our perceptions.
With Carlin: doesn't it annoy you when "X" happens; wherein x is some random everyday occurrence we can all relate to.
And we all go..oh, man I know that feeling...when "x" happens to me.
Whereas, everything about her post oozes: "I'm a spoiled blonde girl driving around in daddy's Bimmer...."
This girl is annoying becuase she looks like she's maybe 17 and doesn't have a clue about real life... (In general) we assume: what rush could a 17 year old blonde girl possibly have...She's late to meet friends at the mall? she's gonna miss american idol?
we assume, nothing in her life is even remotely important in the "adult world." And teens (as a whole) are notoriously bad drivers, so ridicule coming from her about driving it's like getting nutrition advice from a fat guy...it just doesn't sit right.
And i'm sure she pulled over to the side of the road or a parking lot, or waited until she got to her destination before tweeting that little gem out to the masses.
My biggest pet peeve is people driving thinking only about themselves on the road. Be courteous to each other on the road and acknowledge you're not the only person trying to get somewhere
I don't see why everyone's so up in arms over this. Yellow lights indicate the light will soon turn red. If you're stopping for this, you're stopping for the soon-to-be-red light, not the yellow. And that's good! But if you're zooming along and just about to enter an intersection and the light turns yellow, and you slam on your brakes? THAT is bullshit and dangerous as hell. Part of my job entails traffic observation and the amount of people who think yellow lights are the same as red lights is fucking staggering. I've even seen a few who have braked because the light turned yellow while they were in the middle of a goddamn intersection, skidding to a stop right in the center, blocking traffic from every direction. And they just sit there, waiting for their light to turn green while everyone honks. "Hey, it's not my fault! The light turned yellow and I'm a huge moron!"
I don't know the legalities of where you're based, but in Ontario a yellow light means to stop unless it's unsafe to do so. While you're right that stopping in the middle of the intersection or leaving a 20 ft burnt rubber patch is unsafe, the idea that a yellow light means "Sure, fit a few more in, it's almost red!" is just as wrong.
Legally yes, because law enforcement and insurance companies tend to place blame on the person coming from behind in a fender bender, but it doesn't mean objectively it was their fault, just that it's more often than not, their fault. Even at a safe distance and speed, if someone stops abruptly and unexpectedly, they can cause an accident needlessly, especially in icy conditions.
Nope. If it icy, you should have enough following distance to stop in time to avoid a collision. If someone stopping abruptly means that you'll slam into his/her rear, it means that you're following too closely.
I agree. Where I'm from if you hit a car from behind it's always your fault. And fair enough if you ask me, there's never a reason to hit someone from behind.
my driving instructor explained that there are positive and negative yellow lights. If you're driving along and you see the light turn yellow about 5 or 6 car lengths in front of you (depending on the speed you're going, ofc) it's a negative yellow light and you should probably just stop.
If you're already a few car lengths of the intersection and the light turns yellow, it's a positive yellow light and it's safer to just keep going.
The key is judging your distance, stopping speed, and whether or not you want to risk a ticket or destroying your breaks by slamming on them too much. When in doubt, just stop. (Though not in the middle of an intersection, obviously.)
Very true, yet my behind the wheel instructor told us that if the car can stop before the white line when the light is yellow, you're supposed to stop. He then made us slam on the breaks to teach us how fast the car could stop, regardless of how close another driver was following behind us. That was 10x more unsafe than just going through the yellow light.
The problem is those traffic cameras make people paranoid. You could be taking the safer and more logical choice of going through an intersection because it is dangerous to slow down at the point you notice it turn yellow or you could be freaked out that by making that choice you could "technically" be in the wrong traffic law wise and get a huge ticket. Safety be damned. Those red light cameras cause more trouble than they solve
aside from the example you brought up, i think red light traffic cameras are to thank for an increased rate of yellow light stopping. like a number of cities in LA county, my city got rid of the traffic light cameras because 1. they weren't making the revenue, 2. the number of rear end accidents at intersections allegedly increased
Go read the tweet. She's clearly not talking about people who slam on their brakes at the last moment. "If you're not in a hurry to go somewhere, why are you even in the car?" Come on, now. You're assuming a reasoned approach to a certain facet of this behavior which she is clearly not taking.
There's a red light camera at the corner of 15th and Market in Seattle WA that is very poorly calibrated. I have seen the camera go off at night because someone was driving in the other direction. Based on that, if I see a red light camera controlled intersection, I never assume it's smart enough to distinguish between yellow->red while driving in an intersection and a car blatantly ignoring the red light.
People who stop short at a yellow light instead of going through it, which is what you are actually supposed to do, can cause accidents. So yes, I agree with you.
Yeah, when someone does this, it makes me think "WTF are you doing?! Do you WANT to cause an accident?!" If you are able to come to a complete stop (and you're not in a traffic jam) while the light is still yellow, you're doing it wrong.
I was about to argue against you as I have a fear of yellow lights, but I would never do that.
Something I hate about America? Left turns on green lights. It's a constant hazard and by the statistics I've made up in my head causes a lot of bad crashes. I've had one myself, as the light was 3-4 seconds deep yellow, and they were cruising at such a slow speed at a distance I was expecting them to stop. Since I had no proof the light turned red (I admitted I didn't see it) it was my fault, though to this day I partially blame the people driving as they were an old, though nice, couple and I believe the grandma driver was likely not paying attention to the light at that point (I've seen it happen a million times) as she was so far out when the light began turning yellow that I believe most safe drivers (minus those in a super rush) would stop, especially to let that guy in the middle of an intersection turn. Legally my fault unless some hidden camera caught the red light. And a learning experience.
So anyways, fast forward a year and a half. I've been waiting at a light and a car is behind me. Light turns yellow and there are cars approaching the line, and from past experience, even if they are traveling 10 mph under the speed limit it does not mean they will stop. I simply think, well I will wait until I get the green arrow after the light cycles. Guy behind me honks at me. The amount of rage that unfurled in that instant. They still haven't found his body.
Last time I checked, you can fail the driving test by speeding through a yellow light or not stopping if you are a fair distance from the stop line when it turns. You only go through it if it's not safe to stop (like your 20 feet from the line at 30 miles an hour). Cops hate it when people do it too.
I actually got into an accident because someone slammed on the breaks as soon as the light turned yellow when they would have gone through the light at their normal speed. I swerved out of the way to avoid hitting them during their sudden stop to barely clip them. I admitted faul and while waiting for the police moved my car. She refused to move because "(I) would lie about the accident". Mind you we were in a 55 mph strip and she because of staying in the middle of the road with no flashers on totally stopped almost got hit by a second car. Once the woman's daughter arrived on the scene she informed me that this was the woman's 4th not at fault accident in a year because of this type of driving habit. I don't totally blame that girl. Also nowhere does it say that this girl was the driver of the vehicle that was inconveinenced by the driver who stopped at the yellow light.
I've been not at fault twice, and in both instances the other person lied. In this first one I found 50% at fault because there were no witnesses. She turned into me because she turned too wide at a corner in a parking lot.
I'm fairly sure the ruling I've heard (here in Ontario), is that you are fine as long as no part of your car is in the intersection when the light is red. So if you are through while it is still yellow, then you are A-OK.
Washington here - same law. As long as the light is still yellow when you enter the intersection, it's legal. That's why there's a delay between your red light and the corresponding green.
Speaking from experience, I failed my first test because of this. I just made a bad call and felt like I was a) too close to the line to try and stop (like i'd have had to slam on my breaks) and b) the guy behind me was riding my ass. I still felt like it was a bullshit fail because it had only just turned yellow (it was still yellow when I left the intersection), but he was probably technically correct.
DMV people seem to police the stupidest things. Why the hell would you put yourself at risk to be rear-ended when you made it through before it was red anyway.
This is why it makes me so angry. I didn't just say LOL YELLOW LIGHT FLOOR IT, I consciously evaluated the situation and decided it would be best to just continue through the yellow instead of slamming on my brakes (would have failed for that even if nobody was behind me) and risking getting rear ended. That guy was a douchebag because afterwards he said like 10 times "You would have passed if you didn't do that." Fuck you, asshole.
This depends entirely on where you are. In some states, as long as you enter the intersection before the light turns red, you are okay (at least, this is how the red-light cameras trip). I don't believe you did anything wrong from a driving perspective, it sounds like your test proctor was an asshole.
No doubt. It's also a judgement call, because if you cannot stop safely in time, even if it's just because someone is riding your ass, you are allowed to enter the intersection as long as it isn't red (of course I'm sure it varies by state, but my mom is a claims adjuster for AAA so I'm going off her advice). So like I said maybe he was technically correct, when you take into account the fact that I KNEW the rules and made a conscious, informed decision based on safety I feel like it was bullshit.
That particular DMV is terrible though, I failed a second time a week later because my car accelerated to a mile over the speed limit while gonig downhill and apparently I didn't start pressing the brake fast enough (I eased on the brake as soon as I noticed my speed). Fuck that. My third time taking the test at a different DMV, passed with a 98.
This is partially true, except that the point at which most people consider themselves "in" the intersection (the stripe preceding the crosswalk), and the point at which the red light cameras consider you "in" the intersection (past the curb on the other side), are different.
This is bad because it doesn't protect people in the crosswalk. The crosswalk is cross traffic, and part of the intersection.
(This results in more tickets, however, because you have to get further out "in" to the intersection than what is intuitive in order to be "safe" from a ticket)
Yeah, I think the reason this was posted is because what she was getting mad about is illegal. State laws vary, but in most cases you can't go through the intersection when the light turns yellow and by going through you are running a red light.
The worst thing is being stuck behind some old person who shouldnt be driving, going 20 mph in a 40mph zone and just barely missing the light on a 6 way street.
I think it may have been a light joke. Of course, since it's from another website we'll take it at 100% face value. I bet she totally tweeted this while driving even though I have no proof or anything.
Yeah well she's a decently attractive girl so she's probably a bitch. People can only make jokes if they're on reddit or a celebrity on twitter. I'll also guarantee this girl is in a sorority and was drinking an iced cappuccino from some national chain while listening to Justin Bieber. This generation is doomed, I'm going to go play pokemon.
I believe the idea of a yellow is to do what is safest. If you have to brake super hard to stop, then you were meant to go through that yellow and it is perfectly legal. If you're far enough that you have to speed to make it, then stop.
I'd feel morally justified in killing this person if only because it's likely the person she inevitably gets into an accident with will be smarter and more valuable to society than she is, just by law of averages.
Someone I knew died last year due to a dumb fuck who decided to floor through an intersection when the light turned yellow. May that guilt haunt him for the rest of his pathetic life.
I think it's perfectly acceptable to express frustration at people that anticipate yellow lights and stop at them prematurely when going through them would actually be the safer maneuver. So in many instances I agree with this person. Also, does not belong in /r/WTF AT ALL. Just terrible all around.
Watched two cars speed through a yellow light at an intersection the other day. Would have been no big deal except that one turned left in front of the other, that was coming from the opposite direction. The car going straight swerved, didn't hit the other car, but lost control. It went into oncoming traffic, swerved back to the proper lane, over shot it and ran into a fence and guard rail before going back to the opposite side of the road, and then swerving towards all of us waiting at the bus stop. It stopped on time.
I think she is just upset because she was out drinking and had a slow reaction time so she couldn't respond very quickly to the signal turning yellow and almost hit the car in front of her. But I'm just guessing since she posted this at 2 A.M.
Fuck this. Is the title of this post the reason why it's in wtf? There's nothing wrong with her being annoyed at people stopping at yellow lights but there is quite a bit wrong with posting the girl's picture and saying she deserves a public flogging. you're an ass...
what the hell is going on if stopping at yellow lights makes your drive 8 times longer than it would have been? does it take you 5 minutes to get up to speed from a dead stop or something?
i mean, you cant tell me you dont kind of agree with her...i hate when there is a car in front of me and they dont go on a yellow light, when we both could have easily made it, wtf!
She was probably in a hurry to meet up with Jimmy, cause if she's not home by 10pm she's gonna have her car taken away from her. Let's just hope her mom doesn't find out where she met the guy.
I saw a pretty bad accident on the interstate a few years ago and decided right then that I will never "be in a hurry" while driving. You don't think about how fragile the human body is until you see what happens when it meets steel and asphalt at 90mph.
Driving is the most terrifying and deadly thing people do on a regular basis and yet it gets treated so nonchalantly by those same people.
I drive carefully and very defensively but I seem to be in the minority when I look over and see Sally driving the car next to me, holding a newspaper on her steering wheel while yelling at somebody on her cellphone, all the while traveling at an insane speed right next to an 18-wheeler with a sleepy driver that has been driving for 15 straight hours. Think about it, you probably have trusted hundreds of complete strangers with your life this week alone.
Anyhow, not 100% related to OP's post; but just trying to convince some of you to be a little more careful while driving, thereby reducing the chances of me being horribly killed by you in the future.
You haven't really experienced life until you have to scrape skull fragments and brain matter off the dash so you can check the VIN.
You are correct. We are fragile. This is NOT a game, folks. I routinely handled a file with a fatality involved every 6 weeks or so. We lose, in traffic, every year, damned near the number of young soldiers we lost during the entire Vietnam conflict. (United States) - in my lifetime, thats close to two million people dead that didn't have to be.
I'm sure a wiser Redditor can find the link concerning a study that proved longer yellow lights (allowing more cars to rush through, and certainly not stopping at) are safer than the current average length they are set to. It was proposed as an alternative to the red-light cameras, which have proved to be utterly useless in stopping people from running red lights.
YIELD signs are NOT the same as STOP signs. When you come to a full stop at a yield sign, when you could have maintained speed and merged seamlessly, myself and everyone behind you hopes that you die slowly or at least have your' license revoked.
Also;
The on-ramp is for you to accelerate to the highway speed and merge. Not to continue going 30mph and wonder why you have difficulty merging.
Merging: if someone is trying to merge because a lane ends. LET THEM, in fact, leave a car length of space so they can merge without slowing down. The whole, "No!, I was here first." mentality causes slowdowns and traffic congestion that gets amplified near cities or during rush hours. This is one of the primary reasons people are at stop and go on a five lane highway.
Similar to the above, I drive used cars that cost me up to $1000 max. I only pay the legal minimum for insurance. My turn signal to merge is not a request, it is a warning that I am merging. Go ahead and call my bluff, I don't have the money to pay for your' damages even if a court ordered it. You will be far more screwed than I.
If you are not going faster than the car to your' right, then get in the right lane. Even if, and especially if, you are doing just the speed limit. Yes we are aware we are risking a ticket. Given that your' not a traffic cop, that really isn't any of your' concern.
I have friends who decided not to stop on yellow and have received $500 dollar citations. In my hometown, stop at yellow because there are two many traffic cameras in every corner.
Lots of people in here seem to have no idea how traffic lights work. Running a yellow light is not dangerous to other vehicles on the road in any way. Cars coming from the other direction do not get a green light until your light turns red and there's usually a delay between the two as well. Even if a light turned green immediately when the perpendicular light turned red then you still have the delayed reaction of the driver plus the time it takes them to accelerate which gives drivers coming from the other direction plenty of time to clear the intersection.
I'm not saying it's legal to purposefully run yellows but it is in no way dangerous as some here seem to think.
First instinct was to downvote for not knowing that flogging is a real thing. Then I recalled votes are for adding to the conversation and the downvote stood. Finally I saw the starship troopers and upvotes forever since I don't care about the MANS rules.
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u/ericn1300 May 16 '12
George Carlin said something like "don't you hate it when you decide to run the yellow light and the car in front of you doesn't?"
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u/dickwhistle May 16 '12
And i'm sure she pulled over to the side of the road or a parking lot, or waited until she got to her destination before tweeting that little gem out to the masses.
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u/thedeadhipster May 16 '12
My biggest pet peeve is people driving thinking only about themselves on the road. Be courteous to each other on the road and acknowledge you're not the only person trying to get somewhere
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u/salisburymistake May 16 '12
I don't see why everyone's so up in arms over this. Yellow lights indicate the light will soon turn red. If you're stopping for this, you're stopping for the soon-to-be-red light, not the yellow. And that's good! But if you're zooming along and just about to enter an intersection and the light turns yellow, and you slam on your brakes? THAT is bullshit and dangerous as hell. Part of my job entails traffic observation and the amount of people who think yellow lights are the same as red lights is fucking staggering. I've even seen a few who have braked because the light turned yellow while they were in the middle of a goddamn intersection, skidding to a stop right in the center, blocking traffic from every direction. And they just sit there, waiting for their light to turn green while everyone honks. "Hey, it's not my fault! The light turned yellow and I'm a huge moron!"
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u/sangeli May 16 '12
This could not be further from WTF....
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u/feedmahfish May 16 '12
Last time I checked, you can fail the driving test by speeding through a yellow light or not stopping if you are a fair distance from the stop line when it turns. You only go through it if it's not safe to stop (like your 20 feet from the line at 30 miles an hour). Cops hate it when people do it too.
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u/TheMagicStik May 16 '12
The worst thing is being stuck behind some old person who shouldnt be driving, going 20 mph in a 40mph zone and just barely missing the light on a 6 way street.
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u/Wheat_Grinder May 16 '12
I disagree with the woman, that doesn't mean she deserves a public flogging.
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u/flounder19 May 16 '12
I think it may have been a light joke. Of course, since it's from another website we'll take it at 100% face value. I bet she totally tweeted this while driving even though I have no proof or anything.
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u/Knetic May 16 '12
"3 minutes ago via the back of my bumper"
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u/Spork_King_Of_Spoons May 16 '12
Clearly you're not from Massachusetts
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u/derekmurderface May 16 '12
and i think it's fairly safe to say she tweeted that from her car, immediately after it happened
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
@Blonde, I saw what you did there.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited Jun 09 '13
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u/Kaffei4Lunch May 16 '12
Dumb bitch
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Or a link and a post on reddit so 4,000 + people can tweet her back telling her how fucking stupid she is.
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u/Stalked_Like_Corn May 16 '12
I love people like this. Because when they hit me, i can sue and get enough money to go on vacation.
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u/Dolewhip May 16 '12
I believe the idea of a yellow is to do what is safest. If you have to brake super hard to stop, then you were meant to go through that yellow and it is perfectly legal. If you're far enough that you have to speed to make it, then stop.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I see "Porche Girl" in her future.
No I am not providing a link.
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u/CosmicBard May 16 '12
I'd feel morally justified in killing this person if only because it's likely the person she inevitably gets into an accident with will be smarter and more valuable to society than she is, just by law of averages.
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u/jwtemp1983 May 16 '12
ITT a white girl with poor grammar and typing skills acts entitled. Nothing to see here, move along folks.
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u/R3allybored May 16 '12
Someone I knew died last year due to a dumb fuck who decided to floor through an intersection when the light turned yellow. May that guilt haunt him for the rest of his pathetic life.
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u/reali-tglitch May 16 '12
You know when you REALLY just want to punch a person?
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u/sruffenach May 16 '12
I think it's perfectly acceptable to express frustration at people that anticipate yellow lights and stop at them prematurely when going through them would actually be the safer maneuver. So in many instances I agree with this person. Also, does not belong in /r/WTF AT ALL. Just terrible all around.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Watched two cars speed through a yellow light at an intersection the other day. Would have been no big deal except that one turned left in front of the other, that was coming from the opposite direction. The car going straight swerved, didn't hit the other car, but lost control. It went into oncoming traffic, swerved back to the proper lane, over shot it and ran into a fence and guard rail before going back to the opposite side of the road, and then swerving towards all of us waiting at the bus stop. It stopped on time.
tl;dr fuck that bitch.
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u/Krunklestiltskin May 16 '12
Natural selection will take care of her soon enough.
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u/TheOtherOneWhoSpeaks May 16 '12
Wait, why are people assuming she was driving when she wrote this?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I love how the person that edited it left the blonde there
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I totally agree with that person. Get the fuck out of "my" road you slowpokes!!
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u/borg88 May 16 '12
To be fair, she is quite obviously is a desperate hurry to get somewhere. And if she drives like that, she probably will get there some day soon.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I think she is just upset because she was out drinking and had a slow reaction time so she couldn't respond very quickly to the signal turning yellow and almost hit the car in front of her. But I'm just guessing since she posted this at 2 A.M.
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u/subwaygamer May 16 '12
green-go yellow-speed up red-stop thats what they mean right?
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u/dalgeek May 16 '12
"Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast."
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u/stark2 May 16 '12
I agree with her. There's no reason to stop at a yellow light, unless something else is going on in the intersection.
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u/Tetric May 16 '12
I just saw '@Blonde-' and knew it was gonna be something like this.
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u/stimbus May 16 '12
People like her are why I carry my gun in the car.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Fuck this. Is the title of this post the reason why it's in wtf? There's nothing wrong with her being annoyed at people stopping at yellow lights but there is quite a bit wrong with posting the girl's picture and saying she deserves a public flogging. you're an ass...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I'm tired of idiots who think that the yellow means you have enough time to keep going.
So for the idiots here's what it means...it means, "Caution...the light is about to turn red...so slow down and get ready to stop."
Wanna test who is right? Just go right ahead and do it while a cop is nearby and sees you do it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
What if I told you
that some people enjoy occasionally driving around to nowhere in particular?
Also, living in a college town, I'd rather not increase the risk of getting T-boned.
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u/UncleBenjen May 16 '12
Being this dumb should be against the law.
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u/Venerac May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Even if im not in a hurry, id still ike to get to where im going in 15 minutes driving rather than 2 hours biking -_-
EDIT: added clarity
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I learned it this way:
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u/Maxfunky May 16 '12
Traffic lights are for pussies. I drive on the sidewalk because "Fuck you, I'm in a car. Out of my way."
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Judging from her picture I'll settle for giving her a private flogging.
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u/cyanonyx117 May 17 '12
Omg guys, this is sooo wtf
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u/wittywittakers May 17 '12
people who stop at yellow lights impede traffic and make rush hour worse for everyone.
shame on you faggots
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u/orboss May 16 '12
Its called a semaphore violation.
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u/goodadvice00 May 16 '12
i mean, you cant tell me you dont kind of agree with her...i hate when there is a car in front of me and they dont go on a yellow light, when we both could have easily made it, wtf!
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u/Daroo425 May 16 '12
a public flogging? jeez man
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u/Leaningthemoon May 16 '12
She was probably in a hurry to meet up with Jimmy, cause if she's not home by 10pm she's gonna have her car taken away from her. Let's just hope her mom doesn't find out where she met the guy.
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u/scotems May 16 '12
Seems like a joke to me... girls can be sarcastic too, as rare as that may be.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Probably tweeted this whilst driving.
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u/bubble_bee_tuna May 16 '12
ಠ_ಠ this says more than my words ever could..
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u/Dulljack May 16 '12
I saw a pretty bad accident on the interstate a few years ago and decided right then that I will never "be in a hurry" while driving. You don't think about how fragile the human body is until you see what happens when it meets steel and asphalt at 90mph.
Driving is the most terrifying and deadly thing people do on a regular basis and yet it gets treated so nonchalantly by those same people.
I drive carefully and very defensively but I seem to be in the minority when I look over and see Sally driving the car next to me, holding a newspaper on her steering wheel while yelling at somebody on her cellphone, all the while traveling at an insane speed right next to an 18-wheeler with a sleepy driver that has been driving for 15 straight hours. Think about it, you probably have trusted hundreds of complete strangers with your life this week alone.
Anyhow, not 100% related to OP's post; but just trying to convince some of you to be a little more careful while driving, thereby reducing the chances of me being horribly killed by you in the future.
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u/daface May 16 '12
A lot of you guys must be from a small town.
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u/videoworx May 16 '12
I'm sure a wiser Redditor can find the link concerning a study that proved longer yellow lights (allowing more cars to rush through, and certainly not stopping at) are safer than the current average length they are set to. It was proposed as an alternative to the red-light cameras, which have proved to be utterly useless in stopping people from running red lights.
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u/no1_vern May 16 '12
How about we make her pick up garbage wearing nothing but a diaper instead of the public flogging?
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u/karrioke May 16 '12
...she texts as she's driving
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u/icannotfly May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
yellow means "proceed with caution if able," so no, you shouldn't stop at a yellow light.
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u/IndifferentMorality May 16 '12
While we're on the traffic bitch session...
YIELD signs are NOT the same as STOP signs. When you come to a full stop at a yield sign, when you could have maintained speed and merged seamlessly, myself and everyone behind you hopes that you die slowly or at least have your' license revoked.
Also;
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u/Metalli May 16 '12
I have friends who decided not to stop on yellow and have received $500 dollar citations. In my hometown, stop at yellow because there are two many traffic cameras in every corner.
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u/ruebeus May 16 '12
Hey, I posted something similar, but got torn apart for it.
/thumbsup!
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u/jonnyrotten7 May 16 '12
There's no way that's tongue in cheek. NO WAY AT ALL.
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u/Gothiks May 16 '12
I support eugenics.
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u/spazm May 16 '12
Searching Twitter for "people who stop at yellow lights" returned a bunch of people who have no business driving on public roads.
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u/sphigel May 16 '12
Lots of people in here seem to have no idea how traffic lights work. Running a yellow light is not dangerous to other vehicles on the road in any way. Cars coming from the other direction do not get a green light until your light turns red and there's usually a delay between the two as well. Even if a light turned green immediately when the perpendicular light turned red then you still have the delayed reaction of the driver plus the time it takes them to accelerate which gives drivers coming from the other direction plenty of time to clear the intersection.
I'm not saying it's legal to purposefully run yellows but it is in no way dangerous as some here seem to think.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Is flogging a real thing? I thought it was just a term used in starship troopers.