Physicists have discovered that the shortest division of time possible is the time between the light turning green and the car behind you honking.
I think ppl did it so much it became a challenge at some point.
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youtube.com/shorts/s6_BOdKnex4I 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.
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.
Do you see this little pedal under your right foot? Just fucking use it and nobody will be honking.
Get off the phone you fucking imbecil. Stop making people’s days any worse than they need to be.
Do you not understand what, “the second the light turns green” means?
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.
Do you not have yellow lights that tell that they are about to change?
Some intersections you cannot see the cross-traffic signals. Some intersections don’t have much cross-traffic to watch, either.
Interesting how you’re taking the asshole’s side, though.
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.
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.
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?
Never happened to me before. Light goes green and I go. Why is driving so difficult for people
Do you want me to go the speed limit? Because that’s how you get me to go the speed limit.
If this has happened to you more than once you are the problem.
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.
Today one idiot honked me because I actually stopped at a red semaphore.
train driver?
Have you stopped on the rail tracks by any chance?
