True or False: Yield sign doesn’t have right-of-way?
I live in a state where the highway system was designed by drunk people–Texas. You can often go miles past where you want to be because they don’t have convenient exits. At most exits, there is a turnaround lane to go back the other direction onto the freeway and they are posted as "yield." As far as I was taught, you "yield" to oncoming traffic no matter where it came from. You pretty much have no right-of-way with a yield sign.
I was approaching the freeway where I had to turn right for the access road and on ramp. There was a light, but of course if you’re turning right you can go any time it’s safe after you’ve stopped. I was waiting for the opposing traffic that was turning left from a green light and pretty much ignoring the people waiting at the turnaround (which would also sort of look like opposing traffic). After the left light traffic cleared, I went, but this old fart in the turnaround with the yield sign started wagging his finger at me. I was not wrong. AT least I’m 99.999% certain. He tried to gun it and cut me off, but I drive an ‘06 Civic Coupe. Ha! I got in front him whether he liked it or not.
So who is smokin’ dope here? Me, the right turn after a stop, or him, a left turn at a yield?
As I wrote, I had stopped and was waiting for the left light traffic. Please read carefully. Also, the turnaround is slightly ahead of the corner, so technically I was oncoming traffic whether I had come from the left lighters, or straight from the service road or the right turn lane. We were basically face-to-face. (And I do not produce testosterone, thank you.) No one wags their finger at me like a child when I know different (from SoCal, as a matter of fact).
true. yield has to yield to traffic. they have to use their best judgment on when they can go and only can they go when other traffic is clear
if you have the yield sign, you need to let the other guy go first. so he has the right of way
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I think him, especially if he couldn’t see you. Right turns are usually the last to go
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true. yield has to yield to traffic. they have to use their best judgment on when they can go and only can they go when other traffic is clear
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I drive maan
The old man was hahaha….i liked how you called him old fart.
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He had a yield, you had a red light. In order to turn on red, YOU MUST first stop and then YIELD to oncoming traffic. You were in the wrong, but who cares, you got in front!
Imagine you are at a 3 way stop and there is a right turn lane with a Yield sign. The person turning right does not have to stop as long as there is room to keep going, but the rest have to stop first. Using your theory, the person at the Yield would never be able to go in a traffic situation because they would never have a right of way…..it does not work that way. Yield means slow down and let the oncoming traffic procede until there is room for you to go. It does not mean stop and wait until there is no one left and then you may go.
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20+ year mechanic
you win…..but I live in Calif, and it seems no one trust us anymore because we all smoke dope now..
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suburban roads are NOT racetracks. I don’t care whether you had right of way, you deliberately risked a collision. where would you be if you’d hit him? Less testosterone and more caution please.
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Man both of you need to go re-take your drivers tests. He needs anger management classes or a swift kick in the balls.
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