[ale] [OT] Cars and licensing... (Was: Re: Well, this does nothing for the reputation of Linux)

[Katherine Villyard]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also don't care for those folks who've got a flashing yellow and
> treat it as a stop, because invariably they end up causing cross
> traffic to proceed (they now think the light is flashing red 4 way
> stop), and the person traveling opposite in the opposite lane suddenly
> has to lock up.  Granted they shouldn't have been traveling so fast as
> to make that a chore, but...

This is actually my pet peeve.  Invariably, when I proceed into the
intersection without stopping--because you're not supposed to, you're
supposed to slow down and proceed with caution--people honk in
outrage.  I don't CARE that lack of knowledge of the traffic laws
means they've agreed to pretend it's a four way stop.  It's not, and
I'm not going to conform to their peer pressure and pretend it is.

Katherine

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