A good defensive driving class will TEACH you that GREEN means take your foot off the gas pedal and look before entering the intersection.
“A good defensive driving class will TEACH you that GREEN means take your foot off the gas pedal and look before entering the intersection.”
I have a million accident free driving miles.
You nailed it. Never enter a green intersection before looking both right and left. All other drivers are out there to kill you. Nearly all irresponsible drivers can be avoided. A vehicle pulling immediately in front of your vehicle, from a cross street, stopped, is the only thing that cannot be avoided. Most of them have Darwined out though.
But cars drive reckless. It is their nature.
Such as, cars merge into the lane as a group. Instead if they space out, they have a safety buffer. But few car drivers create buffers.
If you ever merged on to the freeway, but needed the emergency lane as a buffer, you are a dangerous group pack driver.
Offset driving is safer, but cars love staying in social packs.
Car drivers have a lot more control over safety than they realize, but few use it. They drive socially unaware of their surroundings.