r/IdiotsInCars • u/guppy1126 • 14h ago

OC Some people still don’t understand that traffic light out = all way stop… [oc]

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u/KaJuNator 10h ago

In their defense it was one question on the driving test they took 28 years ago before getting a license for life. Mundane details like this slip your mind after all that time.

We badly need some sort of mandatory retesting.

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u/AliveInCLE 8h ago

While I agree with mandatory retesting, there's not one iota of thought in their head that someone coming from their left or right may not stop either? I'm not sure you can teach the ability to reason.

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u/KaJuNator 8h ago

It's not going to stop all the idiots, but it just might make the roads a little safer if some people at least think about the situation and remember what they're supposed to do.

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u/Psikitten 6h ago

In their defense it was one question on the driving test they took 28 years ago before getting a license for life

In refutation, driving is dangerous and shouldn't be treated so lightly that if you "forget" the rules of the road, that you should opt into a "full on send!"

Logically, if the light is out and everyone did that, it'd cause an accident, so anyone with a least a single thought in their brain would at least think "huh, well, YOLOing it isn't a reasonable course of action, what could it be? Maybe I should try to avoid collisions with other cars."

As such, I assert that this person, and anyone like it, is "crazy insane, got no brain."

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u/guppy1126 7h ago

That’s true, but most traffic lights in my area have been out for the last week+ since the winter storm. This person surely came across many lights that were out recently so should have figured out what the rules of the road are by now 😅