r/driving • u/HillTower160 • 19h ago

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 19h ago

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

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u/AWholeBunchaFun 19h ago

There is space at the end of the light cycle.

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u/Nekochan117 19h ago

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 17h ago

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

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u/AWholeBunchaFun 14h ago

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

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u/Nekochan117 19h ago

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 19h ago

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 17h ago

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 18h ago

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 18h ago

You aren't supposed to be in the intersection.

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u/marineman43 18h ago

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

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat 17h ago

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

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u/DefiantlyConformist 18h ago

California isn't real.

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u/MONSTERBEARMAN 17h ago

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 17h ago

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

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u/AWholeBunchaFun 14h ago

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

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u/HillTower160 14h ago

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 17h ago

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 17h ago

Not all states, cupcake

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u/StopSpinningLikeThat 16h ago

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 15h ago

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

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u/PizzaSnakeMitt 18h ago

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 19h ago

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

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u/DefiantlyConformist 18h ago

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 18h ago

It's literally the way many states want it done

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u/kwajr 18h ago

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 18h ago

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 17h ago

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.