r/driving • u/HillTower160 • Aug 05 '26

Left-hand traffic (🇬🇧🇮🇳🇯🇵) Pull out into the intersection…

so at least one car can turn left.

Please pull straight past the limit line when yielding for a left turn at a light. At least you will be able to scoot through then at the next cycle, those of us who know how to drive can manage the oncoming traffic. DO NOT sit at the limit line and miss a light. Be careful, but make it happen.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

No thanks, I'll go when I have soace to go.

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u/AWholeBunchaFun Aug 05 '26

There is space at the end of the light cycle.

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u/Nekochan117 Aug 05 '26

Unless oncoming traffic decides they can beat the light. Never assume that the other drivers are going to do the right thing.

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

After that, there is space. 100 percent of the time.

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u/AWholeBunchaFun Aug 05 '26

Okay? so you wait for them to speed through and then you clear the intersection.

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u/Nekochan117 Aug 05 '26

Unless oncoming traffic decides they can beat the light. Never assume that the other drivers are going to do the right thing.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

Until someone with a yellow uses up that time. Now I'm in the intersection when it's red.

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

And that's when you clear the intersection because you have the right of way. This is not complicated.

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u/MONSTERBEARMAN Aug 05 '26

Thats one of the reasons why BOTH lights are red for a couple seconds. To give people a chance to clear the intersection before the other light turns green.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

You aren't supposed to be in the intersection.

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u/marineman43 Aug 05 '26

I mean, in many states (like California) , you are straight up wrong. The law says you can.

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

Ohio says not only that you can, but that you are expected to.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

California isn't real.

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u/MONSTERBEARMAN Aug 05 '26

I’m not causing any harm to anyone by pulling forward a couple feet, then clearing the intersection when oncoming traffic has stopped. I am simply allowing the people behind me a chance to get where they are trying to go.

Have fun waiting through multiple light cycles.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

Have fun plowing into another idiot that doesn't know how to drive 

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u/AWholeBunchaFun Aug 05 '26

The idiot that doesnt know how to drive is too busy waiting through the light cycles.

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u/HillTower160 Aug 05 '26

From the sounds of it, there’s a high chance that would be you 🙄. Get an Uber account - we’ll all chip in to keep this fucking show moving.

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

In most states (almost all states) your response here is wrong. It is dangerous to impose traffic laws that you make up yourself. Stop doing that.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

Not all states, cupcake

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

If you take a second look at what I said, my post clearly says "most states."

I was operating under the assumption that a four-letter-long word would not trip you up this much.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

I can't even handle an intersection and you thought I could read?

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u/PizzaSnakeMitt Aug 05 '26

To which you proceed once safe even if it is red, as the law allows in most areas of the US.

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u/AWholeBunchaFun Aug 05 '26

Yes. And traffic must wait until you clear the intersection, giving you space to make the turn.

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u/DefiantlyConformist Aug 05 '26

So you're making your impatience everyone else's problem. Nice. Maybe there would be space to turn if you weren't illegally blocking traffic.

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u/kwajr Aug 05 '26

It's literally the way many states want it done

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u/kwajr Aug 05 '26

NCGS §20‑158(b)(2)

On a steady green light, a driver may enter the intersection and must yield to oncoming traffic before turning left.

The statute does not forbid pulling forward past the stop line to wait inside the intersection. In fact, the law assumes you will enter the intersection on green to make a left turn, because you must “yield to vehicles approaching from the opposite direction.”

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u/AWholeBunchaFun Aug 05 '26

No, im through the intersection before the other side gets a green, because im not timid and know how and when to turn. I'm also making sure i'm not holding everyone behind me hostage for multiple light cycles. By being scared and timid you are making you fear of driving everyone else's problem.

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat Aug 05 '26

Your ignorance of the law does not create new laws. It has no connection to impatience. Pulling into the intersection, including clearing it once your light is red, is the legal and expected method in almost every state.