https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

  • onion@feddit.deEnglish
    171·
    6 months ago

    Does this intersection not have traffic lights? It seems very dangerous without, since the driver from the left can’t see the fast through-traffic well. They are also crossing three streams of traffic at once.

    In the comic would be space for an extra merging lane at the top, so that the driver from the left only crosses two traffic streams and then safely merges into the 45mph stream from the merging lane

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      So one of the reasons I’m moving is to get away from this. I have this intersection by my apartment. A few hundred feet behind the assassin is a highway intersection, and the road the victim is coming from has 4 huge apartment complexes.

      There is no light. Making a left there(which leads to a outdoor mall) during rush hour requires atleast 3 virgin sacrifices…

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      My neighborhood has this exact intersection in order to turn left out of it, no light. I only go left if the roads aren’t too busy. Otherwise I go right then U-Turn.