10-11-2017, 08:46 AM
(10-10-2017, 05:13 PM)Canard Wrote: I always felt horribly uncomfortable doing it, the few times I did. It made me feel dirty. I would only ever do it if I could gauge in my rear-view mirror that the person behind me also knew it was “technically okay” and was pressuring me to go. Otherwise I’d just wait.
It would make me feel uncomfortable, because even though I knew it was allowed, I always felt like everyone else around me didn’t, and wouldn’t think I was breaking the law!
Sometimes you should just go for it (following laws others don't understand). I would much prefer that you confidently make the legal left-on-red there and make others wonder why you did, hopefully looking up the law themselves and becoming better drivers, just as I would hope that you would confidently not illegally pass a cyclist too close in your car, because you couldn't give 1m of legally-required space, even though pressure from drivers behind you might make you feel like you should run the cyclist down or have every right to. I understand if you don't have that confidence, but the more we display tricky but good and legal driving behaviour, hopefully the more we will be able to set (and reset) good driving standards bit by bit.