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It's not that the rules are unsafe it's that bad drivers are doing bad behavior that is unsafe. Everything that the article cites as the problem with right turn
by elmerfud 3y ago
It's not that the rules are unsafe it's that bad drivers are doing bad behavior that is unsafe. Everything that the article cites as the problem with right turn on red has nothing at all to do with the law it has to do with bad drivers even in your examples it's about drivers who are bad and not paying attention to their surroundings.
This is my point changing the rule is a short-term solution that does nothing to address the long-term problem of making people better drivers.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI hear this argument a lot, that we just need to improve bad, selfish or distracted people, not make things safer in general. Maybe I'm cynical, but they will always exist, and we are also them sometimes too. Speaking for myself as a UK resident, we do not have this turn on a red light rule, and I feel much safer knowing that when a light is red, traffic almost always isn't coming at me.
- Guvante 3y agoIf you need the throughput gains of right on red 9 times out of 10 you have a dedicated arrow that avoids turning on when pedestrians can cross. There is no meaningful impact on delay when you have to wait for the green. People are just impatient. You are arguing that good drivers don't get into accidents which is fundamentally flawed reasoning. We could remove all signage if everyone was good drivers, in fact some places with low traffic have and reduced accidents due to everyone focusing on others instead of signage.