15 LAWS & LINES
15 LAWS & LINES
The laws were made and are enforced to keep you safe from other reckless and dangerous drivers or to keep them safe from you; depending on weather you are a safe obedient driver or one who doesn’t care. They are well thought out by the legislators and officials with the help of police, transportation staff and the highway engineers.
Those who don’t obey those safe driving laws, are putting themselves above the law and are acting out the part of one who knows better than everyone else in their country and community.[In other words they have a faults sense of their own self-importance and ability and everyone else’s lack of importance and skill]
No matter how good you think you are, sooner or later you will make a mistake. When you obey the laws, you will have a better chance of someone else compensating for your mistake and keeping you both safe. If you don’t obey, the mistake and its end results are not an accident but a deliberate result of your inability to handle all and every situation and you are to blame for those results.
The lines marking the highways are there to tell us where we can do certain things and were we are not supposed to do certain things.
We are not supposed to cross a solid line; we are not supposed to cross or be in a yellow lined area or crosswalk. A broken line can be crossed but only if it is safe to do so.
There is more to these lines than what we can see; the sensors for the left turn signals, at intersections, are under the pavement just behind the stop line for the left turn lane. It senses the vehicle that is waiting in that lane but only if that vehicle is near the sensor. If one is across the line or too far back so that the sensor cannot sense it then it thinks that no one is there and does not give them the green arrow. The sensor only has a 5 or 6 foot range and picks up the heavier front end of a car easier than the lighter back end.
There is no excuse for not knowing the driving laws because they are readily available; there is only self-imposed ignorance or deliberate disobedience; both of which are unacceptable to a safe and honourable driving experience.
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Glad I could help. Many people sit at a left turn lane and wonder why they didn't get the left turn arrow. Most of the time it is because they are over, astradle or too far behind the sensor area. I try to put my front tires in the area about 2 or 3 feet away from the painted cross line; that should, logically, be the area that they would put the sensors.