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My son always stops at the line, and then gets annoyed when we're the only car, and we don't get the green light. I stop about 10 feet back, and always get the light.
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Shhhhh! Don't let our secret out
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Again this is just from observation.
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Our kids are driving age. Two have their first cars and one more is getting "ready". So, driving is a very frequent topic of thought and discussion around us.
In parallel with that, we live in a part of town with a major (30,000 students) research university and, essentially we live in a "beautiful college town" neighborhood. The problem is that a very significant number of this population are in the USA for the first time AND driving a car for the first time AND possibly not intimately familiar with the signage protocols and such. It can be a very, very frustrating experience to get a gallon of milk from the corner store. Intersections are one of the areas that seem to absolutely BOGGLE people. And I don't understand that because these are people who are major research students with an incredible ability to grasp exceedingly complex concepts and knowledge, but can't figure out how to turn left. Traffic is a mess. Be glad you don't live where we do.
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People who stop WAY behind the white line at traffic lights
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I'm guessing some green arrows are hard wired, others are not. When you have left green arrows in both directions, it's probably hard wired. If only one direction has a green left arrow, then it probably is based on a trigger, or at least that's my guess.
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Dang....I remember your accident!(and the others, too!)
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I'm in Northern CA (Marin County), and it's not uncommon to pull up to the line at a light, when traffic is low, and be the only car. Then you wait through a complete light cycle, don't get a green light, and it doesn't come until the second cycle. Stopping 10' or so back of the line solves the problem. I don't drive enough in other parts of the US to know if that is a common situation, but it happens here.
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1. If you put it 10 cars back on a busy day only 1 or 2 cars would get to turn left per cycle and only after the light turned yellow or even red. The idea is to clear the left turn lane every cycle. 2. Why just turn arrows? I think straight arrows are assumed and don't need any advanced notice. As to why the left turn arrows always come on for you? Beats me maybe your city and citizens are different. ( quite possibly it's us)
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