When I can clearly see you on your phone, yes.
they race up behind you, tailgate you, swerve to pass you in the next lane, then take several seconds to get going at the light, all while I’m still coasting in gently because I timed the light change
goddamn right I’m up their ass honking at them. get a fucking move on dipshit
How often does this happen?
Sounds like you’re one of those idiots who’s on their phone during a red light and needs the car behind you to provide a wake up call.
I’ve had this happen at least a few times. Each time it was because someone was in the crosswalk they couldn’t see and thought I was just being a dumbass.
This meme is about you, isn’t it?
Eh, I’ve seen it happen too, more than once. To be staring at the traffic light behind a line of cars and hear someone in front honk immediately when the light turned green. It is ridiculous.
Come to India and you’ll see it everywhere.
If they’re stopping at red light in the first place, that is.
It happens a lot in NYC. The couple times I took an Uber somewhere instead of the subway, the driver seemed to always be on the horn.
I missed the change of the first traffic light I stopped at when I had just bought my first car, I had stopped so the light was hidden behind my rearview mirror, got a deserved honk
Why didn’t you move your head?
What part of “first car” confuses you?
Sorry, I thought it was clear that it was an unfamiliar situation as a new driver, the lights was in a slightly unusual configuration so I didn’t see the light as I pulled up and thus never realized that I needed to shift my head to see it.
You’re in pole position, you have a responsibility to those behind you. Be considerate and pay attention.
Yeah, and for anyone concerned, this doesn’t mean jam on the gas, but you got a make some move. You can be conscious of intersecting traffic and whether they’ve actually come to a stop, as well as aware of everyone behind you apparently being in a huge hurry, because they always are. So take your foot off the brake, let me see those brake lights go away, and it’s at least a signal to everyone that we are underway here at Silverstone.
While it is rude to honk immediately when the light turns green, it is also true that taking too long to accelerate when the light changes severely reduces traffic flow and causes congestion. And this is commonly caused by distracted drivers. You are supposed to release your brake and begin moving at roughly the same time as the car in front of you, i.e. when the car in front of you turns off their brake lights or when the traffic signal turns green if you’re in the front.
Edit: “Too long” realistically means anything more than half a second. If everyone’s reaction time was one second it would reduce the number of cars per green light probably by half. That doesn’t mean it’s polite to honk after half a second but if your reaction time is that bad you should not be driving.
In Spain you would have to wait for 5-10 seconds without moving for anyone to honk. At least where I live. People just don’t usually get angry about it. I don’t expect anyone to stare at the red light like it’s a race track. Maybe someone is adjusting the radio, maybe they are putting on sunglasses. I mean, I don’t care, I can arrive 5 seconds later. 99% of drivers here think the same.
I once worked with a British guy here. He drove me somewhere couple of times and he would always complain at how long Spanish drivers take to start when light changes. He crashed and totaled his car soon after. Slipped on a slightly wet asphalt and went out of the road. For me it’s typical that the worse drivers are the impatient ones. Just relax, it’s not a race.
So I can appreciate all of this. It is not a race. I can wait 5 seconds. I think I’ll give a toot at 5 seconds, because 5 seconds is legit a lot of time to not be looking where you’re supposed to be. And I have lights in my town that go green for 15-20s, before going red again for 45-60s. So when you eat up 25-33% of the green signal, it’s kinda rude, and so a double toot, to me, is more than appropriate.
I think that if people are getting offended by the green light time other driver are eating up it means that driving has way too high priority in their life. I mean, I get it, but it’s kind of sad.
Yes, green means go!11! Even there’s an old lady that just didn’t finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.
My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because “it’s green!”. I don’t know the term in English but in French it’s a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!
“Don’t block the box” is the common saying for the law in the states.
You draw a square in the intersection and that’s a “don’t stop here” zone.
Folks will pull into it and wait, and they block the view for anyone behind them too.
“Gridlock” is the term for when a street is fully locked up and cars are blocking the intersections
Nanosecond is a period between traffic light going green and somebody from behind honks.
I assume the person in front is waiting for the red light runners to clear the intersection before starting.
Get off the phone you fucking imbecil. Stop making people’s days any worse than they need to be.
Do you not understand what, “the second the light turns green” means?
That phrase tends to be much less literal when its said by those who are getting honked at regularly to move off from the lights.
If someone is telling you they get honked at all the time for no reason there usually is a reason (or several) and they just refuse to acknowledge what they’re doing.
Do you not have yellow lights that tell that they are about to change?
Not in Canada and I believe also not in the US. The yellow only comes before red, not before green.
Here it’s red, green, yellow, red, green, yellow…
That…makes so much sense.
Not the one you commented to, but not where I drive.
Some intersections you cannot see the cross-traffic signals. Some intersections don’t have much cross-traffic to watch, either.
Interesting how you’re taking the asshole’s side, though.
Could say the same about you. Stop wasting time for other people. Have some decency.
Yea and that’s explicitly not the context of the original post.
It’s natural to take a second before taking off, either unintentionally or intentionally due to safety. Maybe leave on time to account for those extra few seconds that they are holding you up.
i will never understand why us traffic lights go immediately from red to green. you have a whole-ass third light to use for signaling that the light is about to change, so people don’t have to floor it due to an unexpected change.
they used to have this. it did not go well.
wait, what? why not? it works for the rest of the world…
would be interested to know an example country you’re thinking of.
wild stuff. thanks!
I saw someone do that in Korea. The guy in front immediately stops the car and sits there for like 2 minutes as the guy behind honks and eventually does like a 7 point turn to go around.
I live in an area where I think the worst drivers in the US live. I absolutely hate people who honk as soon as the light turns green. You don’t know what I can see, you don’t know if it is safe to go. Because sometimes it isn’t. I’ve had to learn to still look both ways after the light turns green because almost once a week (and I only drive 2-4 days most weeks) I see someone completely blow the red going 60 in a 45.
I also blame phones for traffic, because it goes the other way too. Why did you miss that green, because 3 people in front of you were on their phones. I usually give a slow 5 count before giving a beep.
A “New York minute” is defined as the time between when the light turns green and when a New York driver will honk their horn at you.
I knew it as “New York Second”, and that it is the shortest time interval measurable by science.
Never happened to me before. Light goes green and I go. Why is driving so difficult for people
Yeah, if this kind of thing happens to someone often enough that they deem it worthy to make a low effort meme about it, they’re the kind of person who obliviously holds up traffic everywhere they go.
Do you see this little pedal under your right foot? Just fucking use it and nobody will be honking.