Like its a drag race
Like its a drag race
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The light is green. Why are you not moving?
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When I can clearly see you on your phone, yes.
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Head down looking at their lap instead of driving. Straight to jail.
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If only, sadly even doing that while you drive over human speed bumps is ok
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they race up behind you, tailgate you, swerve to pass you in the next lane, then take several seconds to get going at the light, all while I'm still coasting in gently because I timed the light change
goddamn right I'm up their ass honking at them. get a fucking move on dipshit
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How often does this happen?
Sounds like you’re one of those idiots who’s on their phone during a red light and needs the car behind you to provide a wake up call.
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I’ve had this happen at least a few times. Each time it was because someone was in the crosswalk they couldn’t see and thought I was just being a dumbass.
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Eh, I've seen it happen too, more than once. To be staring at the traffic light behind a line of cars and hear someone in front honk immediately when the light turned green. It is ridiculous.
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This meme is about you, isn't it?
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My wife is this person, she grew up in Texas and it shows. She has alot of bad driving habits thay drive me nuts. Most Texans are like this in my experience.
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It happens a lot in NYC. The couple times I took an Uber somewhere instead of the subway, the driver seemed to always be on the horn.
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Come to India and you'll see it everywhere.
If they're stopping at red light in the first place, that is.
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Yup. Every time I see a post like this I know exactly who it is.
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While it is rude to honk immediately when the light turns green, it is also true that taking too long to accelerate when the light changes severely reduces traffic flow and causes congestion. And this is commonly caused by distracted drivers. You are supposed to release your brake and begin moving at roughly the same time as the car in front of you, i.e. when the car in front of you turns off their brake lights or when the traffic signal turns green if you're in the front.
Edit: "Too long" realistically means anything more than half a second. If everyone's reaction time was one second it would reduce the number of cars per green light probably by half. That doesn't mean it's polite to honk after half a second but if your reaction time is that bad you should not be driving.
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You’re in pole position, you have a responsibility to those behind you. Be considerate and pay attention.
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Yeah, and for anyone concerned, this doesn't mean jam on the gas, but you got a make some move. You can be conscious of intersecting traffic and whether they've actually come to a stop, as well as aware of everyone behind you apparently being in a huge hurry, because they always are. So take your foot off the brake, let me see those brake lights go away, and it's at least a signal to everyone that we are underway here at Silverstone.
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What bothers me are the people who do go when the light turns green, but take their damn sweet time to do it...
Eeeease oofffff the braaaake…. Mooove fooot toooo gaaaaassssss… Creeeeep into intersection at 0.05mph….
…just as long as they get through before the light turns red again, fuck everyone behind them, I guess.
Fuck those people.
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Yeah, personally I'm all about clear the intersection. There's conflicting movements and it's a bottleneck, let's all get through as efficiently as we can. This doesn't mean flooring it, but we can at least apply some throttle, and not just through but beyond the intersection, because contrary to what some folks believe, there are people on the road other than you.
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Can't help but think if the light really just turned green, or if OP just noticed it was green and assumed it just changed but had been green for a while.
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In Spain you would have to wait for 5-10 seconds without moving for anyone to honk. At least where I live. People just don't usually get angry about it. I don't expect anyone to stare at the red light like it's a race track. Maybe someone is adjusting the radio, maybe they are putting on sunglasses. I mean, I don't care, I can arrive 5 seconds later. 99% of drivers here think the same.
I once worked with a British guy here. He drove me somewhere couple of times and he would always complain at how long Spanish drivers take to start when light changes. He crashed and totaled his car soon after. Slipped on a slightly wet asphalt and went out of the road. For me it's typical that the worse drivers are the impatient ones. Just relax, it's not a race.
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So I can appreciate all of this. It is not a race. I can wait 5 seconds. I think I'll give a toot at 5 seconds, because 5 seconds is legit a lot of time to not be looking where you're supposed to be. And I have lights in my town that go green for 15-20s, before going red again for 45-60s. So when you eat up 25-33% of the green signal, it's kinda rude, and so a double toot, to me, is more than appropriate.
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I think that if people are getting offended by the green light time other driver are eating up it means that driving has way too high priority in their life. I mean, I get it, but it's kind of sad.
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Yes, green means go!11! Even there's an old lady that just didn't finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.
My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because "it's green!". I don't know the term in English but in French it's a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!
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“Don’t block the box” is the common saying for the law in the states.
You draw a square in the intersection and that’s a “don’t stop here” zone.
Folks will pull into it and wait, and they block the view for anyone behind them too.
“Gridlock” is the term for when a street is fully locked up and cars are blocking the intersections
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i will never understand why us traffic lights go immediately from red to green. you have a whole-ass third light to use for signaling that the light is about to change, so people don't have to floor it due to an unexpected change.
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That's because practically nobody here drives a car with a manual transmission, and the reason for those in Europe is (or originally was) to give drivers notice when they need to get back into gear.
A knock-on consequence of this is that nobody in the US knows how to drive, they just point the wheel vaguely in some direction and mash the skinny pedal. If they don't get the result they wanted, they stomp on the pedal harder. You ought to watch chucklefucks try to drive in the snow, especially those with SUVs and muscle cars with rear wheel drive. People treat the throttle as if it's the "make the car go in the direction I'm looking button" and the rest of us know that's not how it works.
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surely traffic lights pre-date automatics?
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I assume the person in front is waiting for the red light runners to clear the intersection before starting.
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Get off the phone you fucking imbecil. Stop making people's days any worse than they need to be.
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Do you not understand what, "the second the light turns green" means?
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That phrase tends to be much less literal when its said by those who are getting honked at regularly to move off from the lights.
If someone is telling you they get honked at all the time for no reason there usually is a reason (or several) and they just refuse to acknowledge what they're doing.
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It's natural to take a second before taking off, either unintentionally or intentionally due to safety. Maybe leave on time to account for those extra few seconds that they are holding you up.
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It's not only natural, it's a good idea. Especially if you are crossing a large road.
I ride a motorcycle more often than not (see user name) and it's vital to ensure that the cross traffic is actually stopping when their light is red. You aren't "protected" because your light is green, and there's nothing physically stopping any asshole blowing the light and ramming into the side of you, probably without slowing down in the slightest first. That's because they're also staring at their phone. I can't even go a week anymore without watching some moron sail straight through a red light right in front of me such that if I hadn't spotted them first they would have run me over. And it's happening more and more often as drivers are more distracted than ever before. A couple of years ago I'd only see this sort of thing once every few months.
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I live in an area where I think the worst drivers in the US live. I absolutely hate people who honk as soon as the light turns green. You don't know what I can see, you don't know if it is safe to go. Because sometimes it isn't. I've had to learn to still look both ways after the light turns green because almost once a week (and I only drive 2-4 days most weeks) I see someone completely blow the red going 60 in a 45.
I also blame phones for traffic, because it goes the other way too. Why did you miss that green, because 3 people in front of you were on their phones. I usually give a slow 5 count before giving a beep.
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I saw someone do that in Korea. The guy in front immediately stops the car and sits there for like 2 minutes as the guy behind honks and eventually does like a 7 point turn to go around.
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Nanosecond is a period between traffic light going green and somebody from behind honks.
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Never happened to me before. Light goes green and I go. Why is driving so difficult for people
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Yeah, if this kind of thing happens to someone often enough that they deem it worthy to make a low effort meme about it, they're the kind of person who obliviously holds up traffic everywhere they go.
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Do you see this little pedal under your right foot? Just fucking use it and nobody will be honking.
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Do you want me to go the speed limit? Because that's how you get me to go the speed limit.
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Same. I was in a hurry till you honked. Now all of a sudden I have all day and nowhere to be.
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I mean... you should always go the speed limit, right? Or slower of course.
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This is the most car brained take in the entire comment section. If you're one of the drivers that consistently goes 10kmh above the speed limit then fuck you
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A "New York minute" is defined as the time between when the light turns green and when a New York driver will honk their horn at you.
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I knew it as "New York Second", and that it is the shortest time interval measurable by science.
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Physicists have discovered that the shortest division of time possible is the time between the light turning green and the car behind you honking.
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If this has happened to you more than once you are the problem.
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Honk at immediate green warrants a very slooooooow take off. Bonus points if they spin out into a utility pole to get around you.
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If you truly want to be petty, sit until it’s a late yellow before you go. They’ll be stuck at the red. I wouldn’t do it if there’s anyone stuck behind the honker, but if it’s just the two of you then it’s an easy way to be very petty. It’ll piss some people off so badly that they’ll be liable to run the red.
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Ever seen a Japanese sports car go from 0 to 6 in 15 seconds? Honk at me when I'm on the line and the light just turned green and I'll show you
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I think ppl did it so much it became a challenge at some point.
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Huh American lights don't go amber first, just straight to green.
Also those shorts made my blood pressure rise.
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Actually the drivers should consider the distances of cars to the traffic lights in relation to the speed of light and sound in the surrounding air - it would be more optimal if the waiting driver would start honking a bit earlier than the green light turns on so that the honk sound would reach the slow driver at the time the light from the green light reaches them.
\ (It just isn't optimal to wait the green light to pass two or more cars & then the additional wait time for the slow sound to reach the driver holding up the line in the front.)
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Is physical violence common on RuPaul's show?🤔
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A lot of places in east asia have red light timers. If theres nobody coming, people will start when theres like 3 seconds left.
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That feels like an argument for why red light timers for cars might be a bad idea.
Like, you can understand the intent - by giving extra information, drivers know how long they have to wait and so won't get as annoyed - but that same extra information encourages drivers to take risks, and start moving even earlier than they would with just a simple red/amber/green
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I think it would be disastrous in America or Korea, but it seems to work here and it would probably work in Japan.
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I wasn’t honked at but some guy shouted at me from the other lane ‘You can go now dick lips’. Like what? I was turning left and they were waiting to go straight. This all took place in the span of time it took me to press the clutch and put the car in gear. I was already moving before they even finished that sentence.
Mind you this is an intersection that’s 4 lanes wide(total road width) on the side I was on and 6 lanes wide for what I was crossing. It’s not even a block from an exit ramp from a 12 lane expressway where the traffic light is obscured from an overpass for a train. It’s horrendously designed. To say people blow that light on the regular would be an understatement. I’m gonna take those 2 seconds. There wasn’t even anybody behind me.
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That's me. My friend was in front of me.
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This is (or was) a trending meme thing. I would just assume the person honking at me the splitsecond the light changes is just trying to get some SM clout.
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Today one idiot honked me because I actually stopped at a red semaphore.
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train driver?
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Have you stopped on the rail tracks by any chance?
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No, but he should have.
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Motherfucker, if you're at the head of the line, its only common courtesy to shove your phone up your ass, and move! Do you think the light is gonna get greener? The fuck are you doing up there?
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Lot of people in this thread thinking the split second the light turns green we need to gun it. Get fucked, I'm not on my phone and you're just an impatient asshole. No one owes you a jack rabbit start. Calm the fuck down and breath.
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You don't need to "jack rabbit" out, but you shouldn't be moving like a sloth either, every second of delay delays all other cars behind you and reduces overall traffic flow
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It is the drivers responsibility to ensure the intersection is clear of cars and pedestrians before proceeding. The green light doesn't immediately mean go, they may be waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing or a car to clear after running a red.
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they may be waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing or a car to clear after running a red.
This is the most infuriating, when someone is honking but you literally cannot go without murdering a person.
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Put on the handbrake, get out of the car, and calmly ask them what the problem is.
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Depending on where you are in the US, this could literally get you shot.
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I'm not in the US
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You forgot the 'grab a crowbar' part.
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If you get out of your car to confront everyone who honks at you, you’re eventually going to meet an even bigger asshole with a gun.
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The last time I had to do this I pulled a rapier, actually. Although in my defense, the guy behind me jumped out with a tire iron first. It was purest happenstance that I had the thing in my back seat at the time but damned if the look on his face wasn't worth it.
I've recounted this tale before. I have to wonder how that guy tells people his side of that story...
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👌👍🤣 internet tough guy. Both of you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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Or just drive off. If you rise to every barb, you’re almost definitely going to end up with a severely painful, chronic erection. Getting shot or run over is also on the table.
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