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The other major possibility is the road markings where distracting drivers. Understanding the rules while driving is more complex than simply not hitting people.

I would much rather someone trying to make a U turn thinking “Is this safe?” vs. “What does the sign say?”




In some ways i agree, but in others i disagree.

I'm a person who loves traffic lights, because the traffic light specifically tells a road user You can go or no you cant go. nobody has to do any guesswork as to who is allowed to go.

I see the whole "more alert because its more dangerous" every day. There used to be a single lane roundabout that i traveled through every day that they have now changed to a double lane roundabout. I am not sure of actual crash statistics related to it, but i see that people are more alert, because it is far more dangerous to what it used to be.


I'm a person who loves traffic lights, because the traffic light specifically tells a road user You can go or no you cant go. nobody has to do any guesswork as to who is allowed to go.

And yet about 1/4 of all traffic accidents happen at a traffic light within 5 seconds of a light change. Why? Because one person tried to cheat the rule, while another followed the rule without checking whether it was actually safe to do so.




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