Something tells me it was longer than 0.74 seconds. And typically the person that suffers the consequences of the lead car not paying attention is the cars further back sitting through another light cycle because you can’t put down candy crush while driving
After the light turns green I take a couple seconds to scan left, right, and left before pulling out. I’m looking for last second red light runners. Saved me a couple times. Yep takes a couple seconds, no won’t stop doing it. Most traffic safety courses advise this behavior.
I drive a stick. Sometimes I get a honk in that moment when shifting into gear at the light change. People expect the cars to start moving immediately once the light changes.
I try to put it in gear shortly before the light changes, but sometimes the light is long and I don’t want to just ride my clutch while I sit there for a minute or more.
I drive a stick too and I’m conscious about this, but the person behind you should notice that you took your foot off the brakes. I can always tell when the person ahead of me is not paying attention to the traffic light.
Something tells me it’s a made-up scenario that affected literally no one.
Distracted drivers are so bad in my town I preemptively honk when the light turns green so we can get more than 4 cars through a 30 second light cycle.
If the guy directly in front of me wants to take it personally, that’s just fine, lol.
I like to wait until the light turns yellow, pull just past the stop line and then go when the light turns red when someone honks at me for no reason.
Then I drive off happily knowing that I either fucked their impatient ass, or they can run a red if it is that important to them.
I thought that’s the accepted definition of a “New York Minute” — the time between the light turning green and the cabbie behind laying on their horn…
Yeah… But it was only 0.74 seconds, because he honked!
It’s become a pretty common occurrence for a light to change and the driver in front of me to be staring at their phone.
Which is me saying I never used to honk at people at lights, and now I find myself doing it about once a week.
Same here. Though tbf I do still give the friendly two honks rather than the annoyed long honk. I don’t need to punish them as much as they may deserve the long honk, I just need them to go so I’m not fired for being late to work. So idk I feel it isn’t that bad of me to do.
Same.
I give a single light honk to get their attention. Not an angry long honk.
And for the record, I’ve been caught staring at my phone a couple of times and needed to be honked at too.
There’s a movie called Unhinged where someone honks for too long at Russell Crowe’s character and the rest of the movie is him angrily chasing the main character. It’s absolutely hilariously unrealistic and it’s super fun to laugh at.
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