You have to wait until the intersection clears before taking off at a four way stop!
You have to wait until the intersection clears before taking off at a four way stop!
F***ing morons in the world! Everyone is so damn impatient that now when I am at at four way stop and turning and my ass end is still in the intersection the other car going straight already decides to take off instead of waiting a micro-second for the intersection to be clear. All sorts of scenarios can happen...a pedestrian could appear causing me to brake and then you would crash into the rear of my car. Stop being a moron and think! What the hell are you gonna' do when you get home a nano-second earlier?
I'm glad my city uses roundabouts instead of 4 way stops.
It's perfectly normal to thread 1 metre behind a car in a roundabout.
I went to America once and was totally and completely dumbfounded by the concept of a four way stop intersection.
I implore you to encourage your city to replace them all with roundabouts, so that you may enjoy one less stressful thing existing. 😅
Your visit clearly didn't include witnessing Americans attempting to navigate a roundabout, if you think that would be less stressful...
There was a somewhat popular video from my area of a driver launching their car through the middle of a newly built roundabout directly into a Taco Bell.
While I would say its technically an outlier, its still indicative of most American drivers relationship with roundabouts
Agree. American. I get so anxious when I see one ahead of me. The only thing worse than riding with me through a roundabout is riding with my husband through a roundabout.
This often stems from a general breakdown of the right-of-way rotation. At least in my city, if you don't move quickly, nobody is going to wait to see if you realize that it's your turn. They'll just skip you. You learn quickly that if you don't at least start rolling as your predecessor clears, you end up waiting for an extra rotation at every intersection.
I was taught something along these lines. If they hesitate, just go. People who hesitate will keep hesitating most of the time and you end up in that "you go, no you go, ok I'll go, no you go..." stalemate and much more time is wasted. If you start to go and they do too, but then they hesitate and stop, just continue going if it's safe. You'll clear the intersection while they continue to be unsure and you solve the problem immediately. Obviously keep an eye out and be prepared, but 99% of the time it works just fine.
I feel you. Also, wait half a second after the light turns green before touching the gas, specially if the intersection is clear. Statistically speaking, this might literally save your life one day. Bunch of assholes think they can squeeze in at high speed on the first beats of a red light and end up T boning someone.
I don't know about you, but my city now has both an all-stop break, and a pedestrian-only break before the light turns green. There's a vanishingly low chance of cars still chasing the yellow once the cross-traffic light is green here. Not to say they don't completely blow the light sometimes, but the risk is probably about the same, no matter how long you wait.
in my town, green doesn't mean 'go'. it means look out for the moron half-a-block back on the cross street, still gunning to make the light they missed.
Same. Green means "there's probably one more car still coming, wait a second for him to zip right in front of you".
How about you use your turn signal and move your ass. If everything is moving as it should, every milimeter of the box should be utilized. Track the movement of the other vehicles and move through. The cumulative time on an 8 hour drive waiting for some local chuckle fucks to finally go is insane.
One should be taking note of order of arrival to know your turn as you approach the intersection. Watch for changing circumstances. And when it is your turn, GO. There are way too many people that pull up to an intersection with absolutely no awareness then sit there way too long while everyone else that arrived after is waiting. Order isn't something negotiated with the other drivers. Take your turn as soon as it is your turn and I suspect there will be less impatient people trying to run you over.
And for fucks sake, pull up to the damn line. If you stop a car length back, then guess what, you still haven't arrived at the intersection and you get no turn.
Hey OP!
Found the guy who didn't wait for you to clear the intersection.
But the truth is, your impatience does not actually justify putting others at risk. Not to mention driving like an idiot has very little chance of reducing your travel time by any appreciable amount.
A skilled driver isn't inpatient. They don't start accelerating into an intersection that isn't clear. They don't tailgate other drivers. You have no better reaction time than any other human. Bad driving habits cause a ridiculous number of deaths. You're not that important; in fact, in the grand scheme of things, you don't matter at all.
No no, he's right.