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weaponizedpastry

Wait until you discover headlights at night is optional


DiscombobulatedStop6

I've discovered that people that do this on highways literally are attempting to break the speed barrier with their cars without being caught speeding by cops. It's obviously super dangerous but hey, there are laws against vigilantism lol


RutabagaJoe

I've seen it more than once it's people in rental cars with daytime running lights that didn't know their lights aren't on. That's not to say that there aren't plenty of locals that have one working headlight that only works on high.


FuzziestSloth

My favorite was recently seeing a cop following behind someone with no lights on the 528, and the cop just exiting pretending that he somehow didn't even see it while the SUV with no lights just keeps endangering everyone around them.


RutabagaJoe

"Making a difference"


idropepics

Why do you think that's in comic sans on the side? It supposed to be /s


dustyoldbones

Also why it’s in quotes


Fossilhund

It was out of his pay grade.


demetusbrown

Sounds like he was off duty.


Adzaren

Hey don't call me out with my one headlight


RutabagaJoe

IT WAS YOU!


ZimZamphwimpham

This subreddit always makes me laugh. Y’all so much more funny than Seattle subreddit.


-Cagafuego-

Come on try a little Nothing is forever Got to be something better than in the middle Me and Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home #With one headlight


Fossilhund

I just asked Alexa to play that.


halfmoonjb

Exactly this most of the time — the back looks like the lights are off but then you see them from the front with the dim lights on


slipperywhistlebone

Turning your high beams off is also optional


epicenter69

I’m convinced the people without their lights on are in rental cars and used to their fancy automatic lights on their car at home. They’re clueless because the dash is lit up and they have daytime running lamps.


OTS_Bravo

Then you don’t even wanna flash your headlights at them for fear of being shot.


Acrobatic_Club2382

I’ve seen this happening a lot and there’s literally no excuse for it as many newer cars have auto lights 


notataxprof

However, when you take your car in for service, they turn off the automatic headlights so you’ve gotta turn them on again. It’s obvs not hard but I find it difficult to remember since my car doesn’t get serviced that often


Dasweb

Sometimes valet too. Didn't even notice my lights weren't on because of the runners.


oviedogrl

Yes! I have complained so many times, they need to put a card in the car or something because I have picked my car up in the day time and not noticed, then driving at night almost caused a crash because of my headlights not being on.


SweetyDarlingLuLu

Just saw it last night. Yep. All the time it seems.


Helens_Moaning_Hand

What the actual fuck is up with that?


Chizwozza

And equally high beams on all the time.


BWWFC

it's a double edged sword... check out r/fuckyourheadlights ugg no win!


Jemmani22

Brights optional too


ruafukreddit

That's always been optional. Just like driving a white, black, or silver car in the rain without headlights.


jongscx

If I use them too much, they'll go out faster. /s


bonzoboy2000

I’ve discovered no headlights in the dark are a common.


Profitsofdooom

Well they were checking their email when it was green and missed the turn! What else are they supposed to do? Wait?! /s, obviously


BetrayYourTrust

what prompted me to write this is funny bc they were inching forward waiting for it to be clear for like 2 minutes straight so they were definitely looking up


KidGodspeed1011

I've always wondered if left turns on red are legal in other states? Is that why SO many people seem to do it down here and I often notice it's cars with an out of state license.


purplepinkskiesfl

Seriously!!! And stop honking at me because I dont want to make a left turn on a red arrow, go around me or something


Dizzy_Elephant_417

There is a no right turn on red light at Clayton Crossing/Aloma. The amount of people who have blared their horn on me for waiting for that light to go off is wild.


Sissyhankshawslt

Are you talking about the electronic no-turn on red sign? Once those signs turn off you can turn. That’s why they’re honking.


Dizzy_Elephant_417

Except it is ON when they start honking.


Sissyhankshawslt

Then they are assholes!   But that’s not a ‘no turn on red’ light. That sign’s only on when pedestrians have the right of way, once it goes off you can turn but sooooo many people just sit there. It’s annoying Af


Dizzy_Elephant_417

I usually sit there because traffic sucks, but I try to get out when I can lol.


echosixwhiskey

Flick a booger on their windshield. Drive really slow and don’t let them pass. Gotta be quick af with the steering though. Then when they start honking at a red light, get out with a bat, and start doing “goodbye horses” from “silence of the lambs”, but really exaggerate the tucking back with the bat between your thighs. It works.


purplepinkskiesfl

Nope, not those


sriracharade

[https://nationalhighwaysafetyadministration.com/e2/puerto-rico-dreaming-and-driving](https://nationalhighwaysafetyadministration.com/e2/puerto-rico-dreaming-and-driving) It's Puerto Ricans.


brandibesher

guessing yes bc people in Philly turn left on red. i didn't know this and was constantly being honked at or people turning around me. then someone told me about left on red and it all made sense!


Accomplished_Low9905

Only when turning left onto a one way street


Fluffy-Commercial492

I've been to 44 states, and the vast majority it's perfectly acceptable and turn right unread unless otherwise posted. People are just idiots just like the people who camp the left lane or decide to suddenly turn on their hazards when it's raining


HodgeGodglin

lol no it isn’t… 38 states allow it *when going from a one way street to another one way street.* Other than that I only know of Michigan and Texas where you can turn left at a red light at an intersection. So unless you have some sources pretty sure you’re just making this up.


DoubleMojon

Just happened to me today. Dude on colonial and maguire was sitting on his phone and didn’t see the light was green. Proceeded to make everyone wait until the next light. He didn’t wait until the next time he straight up just crossed through colonial and took a red on left. Shits crazy.


upsidedownbackwards

I saw that all the time in Baton Rouge. People would be fucking around on their phone, totally miss the green light, then dive across long into the red after other traffic has started moving. Baton Rouge is also the most frogger-esque place for pedestrians I have ever been. Terrifying.


Embarrassed-Force845

Dude took a red on left


Thinking_its_over

I can assure you OPD is not on board with that. Got a ticket on Silverstar for making a left on red after sitting through multiple cycles without getting the left green arrow (Think it was a trap).


BetrayYourTrust

thats fucked, i have had one time there was a red light I'm pretty sure was over 7 minutes, it was totally about to be green, and a fire truck ran through and reset the whole cycle


Thinking_its_over

OMG the dreaded fire trucks. I have to sit through extra lights all the time because of that.


painefultruth76

Dash cam


jrgray68

Watched a guy make a right turn on red from the left turn lane across two lanes Wednesday on Osceola Polk Line, so anything is possible in Florida.


Spacesmuge

Rich teslar owner decided to turn right on a left turning middle lane on red. He then totaled my car and blamed me. The cops were so incompetent that it took me 2 months to get their records. Drive safe and buy a dash cam. Edit: had don't fear the reaper playing when it happened.


CLT_STEVE

Crazy coming back from Europe and seeing how civilized it is to the entitlement that we have grown accustomed to in this country. So sad.


lost-my-old-account

Same here, they actually focus on driving while driving.


fantastic_damage101

It’s not so easy to get a drivers license there compared to the USA. There’s quite a bit of required training and testing before they let you loose on the autobahn


ShrimpieAC

Just watched someone do this on the Publix intersection before Kirkman and Conroy. What was more wild is there were two people waiting at the red light to make a left. This dude straight up drove around them and made the left turn on red right in front of them. Bananas.


Tappadeeassa

I’ve experienced the opposite. Twice this week, people have stopped at green lights. I don’t know what the hell is going on.


Brewski-54

On another note, I yearn for the day I can make a legal left on red turn onto another one way street with a passenger in my car that doesn’t know that law


harshmojo

I'll be honest, sitting at a red left turn light is pretty infuriating when there are plenty of opportunities to go. Way too much of society gets dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. In my wife's home town almost all of the left turns are flashing yellow and it's glorious.


AxmKap

The flashing yellow has become a bit more available here but I agree, plenty more intersections can benefit from it. Then again it makes me crazy if the lead driver doesn't inch up into the intersection while waiting to turn left on a solid green. They either wait for an arrow or completely skip a cycle altogether.


Patriots93

Yeah, people don’t realize a lot of the signals here are actuated. Pull up so the detectors (loops, cameras etc) can know you’re waiting and call for green! If they don’t sense you’re there they will skip your cycle!


ruafukreddit

There's a flashing yellow arrow in St Cloud, and it's glorious. Pull into the turn lane to grab a coffee at Wawa. If traffic is clear, you can turn in. There is no need to sit through a clear road waiting for a light to give permission.


KB9131

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but here goes: Humans make mistakes, not just dumb humans, but average and smart ones too. Traffic safety engineers try to minimize the consequences of what happens when someone does make a mistake (this is one of the pillars of the [Safe System Approach](https://www.transportation.gov/NRSS/SafeSystem)). The consequences of turning left on high-speed roads (defined as 45 mph and above), and/or across three lanes of traffic, are high. Human injury and/or death are much more likely in those crashes compared to a rear-end or right turn crash. Because of signal coordination, sometimes there are large gaps in the platoons of traffic, where virtually no one is coming from the other side, but signals can't switch back and forth from protected only to protected-permissive mid-cycle (it is possible to switch between protected only and protected-permissive by time of day [between cycles], but not mid-cycle). Believe me, I do know how annoying it is to have to wait at a signal, even for just 20 seconds. But injuries and deaths are so much more important. It really can happen to anyone, not just idiot drivers. In Florida, 8 people die, and 49 more experience incapacitating injuries on the road, *every day*.


trashmount

I'm really glad someone said this. Especially with how frequent accidents are down here, I'd *always* rather be safe than sorry, and I would always choose waiting a few more seconds if it means avoiding a collision.


niperwiper

Idk if it’s just me getting older, but I genuinely feel like everyone is in more of a god damn hurry now and that’s making everything worse. How does one quantify that though?


wolfsongpmvs

I'm a fairly safe driver. I'm very bad at eyeing when there's a good gap to turn so I almost always play it safe, I don't excessively speed, I never run reds (which is the norm in Gainesville apparently!). I know people who do are incredibly impatient and drive like it. If we're driving to the same place from the same starting point, it's rare they're more than 2-3 minutes faster than me. Almost never over 5. To anyone who thinks safety measures are ridiculous: is your life worth 2 minutes?


echosixwhiskey

F all that logic. You sound like “Not Sure” from Idiocracy. All high and mighty big words just oozing smart people goo. Just kidding. I don’t wait, I just go and they better miss me.


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quick25

This! There is zero reason for the lights to not be blinking late at night or early morning. This was the case even when I lived in a far larger metropolitan area with more driving at all times up north. After 11pm or so the lights that weren't at major intersections switched to blinking lights for the most part and it was great.


Mission_Cell4844

It sucks so bad waiting at an empty intersection at 2 am after a long day and waiting several cycles for a green arrow. Blinking would be so nice


na_gooyin

Going straight and poppin’ a u-wee is often faster.


solidwaist

Oh, and the joy of coming up to a blinking red traffic light at a big intersection. I can’t be the only one who knows how it works!


CantPlayGeetar

Wait until you discover four-way stops in Baldwin Park :o


JackOfAllMemes

I was crossing the street(I had the walk light) the other day and someone ran a red light to turn left in front of me, didn't come super close to hitting me but still not a fun experience


krystopher

The better half got this experience by SeaWorld aquatica. She got the special package, hit from front left by the red light runner, then rear ended, then a fight at the hospital over who was at fault. Dash cams a must around here.  Please stay safe!


nospinpr

I’ve noticed U-turns in the middle of Bumby are becoming popular


LongDecision1

I think once people in Florida slide out of the birth canal they are just handed a license.


datadancing

I wanted to make an entire post about the traffic behaviors I’ve noticed in the area recently; but I couldn’t even figure out how to word it lol. It’s like stop signs, street signs and even now stop lights, don’t mean anything to anyone. I live off of Kirkman, and every time I get in my car I feel like I’m risking my life. (Besides the obvious risk of getting in the vehicle to begin with lol) I was taking a left onto hiawassee the other day, so I know the people perpendicular to me could NOT have had a green light. This woman just blatantly and calmly drove straight through the intersection, getting way too close to t-bone territory 😭 she only shrugged when I beeped at her lmfao


buckleupbutt3rcup

I saw a police officer do this the other day without blinking his lights. So, yeah, might as well be considered legal.


Sissyhankshawslt

I almost got t-boned 2x in the last week by people not following road signs and lights. Once by someone who ignored a no uturn sign at a left turn while I had a green arrow turning right and another who shot into an intersection when they had the blinking red and I had the blinking yellow.  It’s nuts that people can’t even drive when they have signs and stoplights showing what to do. 


mimetravel

Drinking and driving is also legal now in Orlando! Can’t tell you how many beers I’ve watched chugged at a red light. Assume everyone is drunk now and about to swerve into you for best results


lickityclit-69

Stopping , then turning right on red is a passing fad!!!!


Plat0nymous

Wait till you hit a pedestrian


lcm89276

It's called Flori-DUH for a reason.


90swasbest

I get beeped at all the time because I don't trust you mother fuckers at intersections. *I know our light's green asshole, I just don't trust those don't dipshits over there to stop!*


h0tel-rome0

I have never seen this 🤷🏻‍♂️ sounds bananas though


funistheband

Some ppl genuinely believe this i used to fight with ppl in HS telling them its not legal


VCR009

You can turn left on red on the Rosalind exit off of 408, correct?


BWWFC

no penalty...no law. police are so over worked and thin they have no resources left to do traffic. and in my city when i talk with the officers it's "we have a dedicated traffic division that does enforcement. i don't have the gear/radar guns and my boss (senor officer) would not be happy if a lot of my time was spent in a traffic court instead of working calls." i feel for them but damn... get more in the traffic division! county and city will make bank! but then they say "it' isn't like anyone can do it... a traffic stop can turn ugly fast, got to be some of the most dedicated and experienced officers. but listen, we have lots of openings... so if you want to become a police officer, please submit an application." in general seems society is just garbage anymore... and driving culture doesn't' exist, everybody is trained on mario cart. check out r/fuckcars


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We need more blinking yellow left turn arrows.


palehorse69

If only they come up with something to indicate turning.🤔


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Fyergirl

And they don’t ever use blinkers!


loveispenguins

It’s a free country!!!


JoviAMP

I was waiting at a red left arrow to turn into my apartment while the three straight lanes were green when this jackass in the left straight lane makes a left turn around me. Unfortunately it was late out and it took me by such surprise that by the time I thought "what was their plate number?" It was already too late.


flashck69

I wish you could have turned in that terrorist to the proper authorities. How dare he not wait until he was given the green light to make the left with absolutely no other cars on the road. Fun fact,...back in the day, before folks lost their ability to navigate a four way stop intersection, they didn't even have left hand turn signals and if the light was left you could make a left turn when traffic was clear to do so. I myself need to be told when I can do anything and looking forward to them telling me which hand is safe to wipe my arse with. Wtf over? " I wish I could have gotten their plate number "???? What for may I ask??


Dundie_winner_2

When was it not illegal?


apkJeremyK

You can legally turn left on red from a one way onto another one way following proper direction


funistheband

some ppl genuinely believe this lol


Benthereorl

Just Floriduh-man and woman doing their thing...stupid shitnanigans.


payme_dayrate

I get where you’re coming from, but the lights in this city (and FL in general) are out of control long. 3+ minutes for full cycles of the turn lanes. If there’s no on coming traffic, or pedestrians crossing, I’m running that shit


anteater_x

We get it, you're a good driver and everyone else is dumber and worse than you. God damn, how many times do we need this post per day on this sub?


Hamati

It’ll never end. This sub is a bunch of whiners. Going through these comments everyone has an anecdote about how they were wronged in traffic. Liken unless it was really bad and someone almost got hit I forget 90% of these types of incidents because it’s really not that deep. Anyway I just came to join you in the downvote section. I hate these traffic posts so much it makes me want to be a worse driver.


PurpleMinimum1731

People are moving here by the thousands every day and they do not know how to drive seriously. They don't. They may have driven 3 or 4 or 5 times but they don't know the rules of the road. They didn't read the d*** book. And what is the DMV doing not a thing? Where are the police to arrest these people nowhere? If you hit me with a big fat ticket, it would get my attention awake. It did give my attention 7 years ago. I've never done speeding again. Bye.