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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (28 children)

Your traffic laws are weird.

  • Overtaking/passing on the right

  • 4 way stops and whoever comes first can go

  • No strict right of way when coming from the right

  • Right on red

  • Grinding all traffic in all directions over multiple lanes to a stop when a school bus stops

At least the last one I can understand a little with the nearly non-existent pedestrian infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Honestly right on red is so stupid. So many people don't even slow down and they just go. Sometimes I'll be waiting to turn right at red light and some dickhead in a behemoth truck behind me will start spamming their horn like they think I have the right away and can just mow down whichever pedestrians are in the crosswalk. I bike a lot and I have narrowly avoided being hit by a car turning right on red multiple times. One time I had a car graze my back tire which was really scary but fortunately I ended up okay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly right on red is so stupid.

Everything you wrote after this sentence told me that people are stupid, not necessarily the right itself. It makes a lot of sense, I'd like to have it in the EU.

[–] MirthfulAlembic 2 points 3 days ago

You are correct in my opinion. I don't like how many people assume it's a green arrow or that you must go if able, but I wouldn't give it up.

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