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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
I wouldn't be so quick to judge that person. We once were driven up to Los Angeles by a friend who had spent basically his whole life in San Diego. By the time he learned to drive, San Diego, like Orange County, had left turn arrows at 99.99999% of its intersections. So when our poor friend, in the middle of West LA, had to make a left turn on a busy street with no left turn arrow...he was utterly lost. "But, the cars just keep coming. If I move into the intersetcion, I'll get stuck there when the light turns red!" Fortunately for him, we were in the car to coach him through it. Otherwise, he likely would have been that guy. He had simply never been trained how to handle that kind of intersection.
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Ahh but your friend while confused was not a moron. The key phrase being "
If I move into the intersection". He understood it's an all or nothing thing. You don't pull into the intersection unless you are committed to going and you sure as hell don't stay there through an entire light cycle.