Ok, so I understand why we have the GREEN left turn arrows. It gives the left turn people a chance to go before the intersection is swarming with traffic. But WHY THE RED ONES??? I get the theory at work...that "it's a big scary intersection and left turns aren't safe". But is that REALLY true? MAYBE in a small small SMALL percentage of intersections across the country that have unusually high amounts of traffic or whatever. But it seems to me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ABSURD when I can't make a left turn b/c of the red arrow, and I can CLEARLY SEE THAT THERE'S NO TRAFFIC APPROACHING FOR PERHAPS MILES DOWN THE ROAD!!! Sometimes you can see the curvature of the fucking Earth off in the horizon, and for all that length of road there are NO CARS COMING!!! But still, you have to waste like 5 minutes of your precious time and gas just sitting there!!! WHAT THE FUCK???
They should have kept yield signs yellow. Most are red now. People see red and think 'stop'. Now you have people coming to dead stops on the ends of freeway off and on ramps causing accidents. They changed it from yellow to red many years ago because some theoretical semantic purist in an ivory tower felt that yield is part of the 'regulatory flow' group rather than the 'caution' group and should therefore be red instead of yellow. .
Things like this are done to protect the "stupid people" of the country. Without these things in place the "stupid people" would slowly die off and the rest of the population would be smart enough to realize the gover emnt is fucking them over. So the goverment has taken large steps to allow common sense to be lost and ignorance to thrive.
Haha, this is really funny to me. And perhaps a bit sad. This story actually makes me feel pretty dumb. I took my behind-the-wheel driving test a month or so ago and tried to make a left turn on a red arrow. I couldn't see traffic approaching, wasn't thinking straight (nervousness tends to do that to me.. it consumes every ounce of my mind) and didn't think twice about the arrow. Unfortunately, the lady screamed at me to stop because the arrow was red. It was the very end of the test.. the very last intersection I had to face and I would've passed otherwise if it wasn't for my "don't fuck up now, you've almost made it" attitude. Damn red arrows, heh.
Ya guys know how we have videotaped intersections now for light runners and all that jazz... Well, now we should make signs out of highly evolved animatronics, that come to life when someone doesn't proceed as it indicates, pull them out of the car and beat the crap out of them. And street sections should vanish underneath someone who does something stupid worthy of causing an accident. Using highly sophisticated realtime rendering technologies, while falling through the vanishing ground, these degenerates are transformed into cartoon versions of themselves in high explosive bumper cars. Other drivers/victims of the scene are wharped to a virtual platform above the arena where a growing number of unlawful motor vehicle operaters have been purged into, and may commence dropping small or large charges below on the renegades. The size of the charge will be determined by the amount of frustration caused by the event times the inconvenience rating of the interrupted daily routine. This I believe may be a good logical step in tightening up our performance as independent motor vehicle operators in an age where it seems anything is bound to happen. Faithfully submitted, Senior Nuttsack! Buen Avivodidos!
I think big spring guns that shoot suction cups darts with 3 foot shafts sticking out of them with flags on the shafts that say in huge letters--STUPID!!should be available to all.When a dumb-ass gets 3 stuck on their car--license suspended for a month!!Caught removing a dart yourself--ooops--another month suspended!!--Some days you'd have to have a back seat full of darts!
New Jersey, New York and Boston have enough negative verbal incentive. Disappearing cars and street gang sign posts sounds hella fun! Plus if they go online and become self aware, that'd be a big step in breaking down routine enslaved society. We'd all have to get hovercrafts!