And my ability to Swerve!
Without both, I wouldn't be posting.
An impatient Taxi waiting at a red light pulled out of a left turn lane.
Search: Coming off a red light at an intersection in the left lane out of three going in the same direction, I noticed two vehicles up ahead at the next intersection , one which was a taxi waiting to turn left to enter the on ramp onto a freeway at a red left turn light on a overpass.
Evaluate: Knowing that I have accelerated quickly coming out of a red light I knew I have made separation with the traffic behind me and anything to my right was open. I noticed that I have a green light up ahead while the left turning vehicles still have the red. But I noticed that the walk signal was still on. I noticed the Taxi in the left turn lane. I knew that this intersection has a very long rotation, and the Taxi driver probaly knew that too. So I was anticipating that he may pull out an go thru the intersection on the green and flip a U-turn. That was my plan too, so I remained in the left lane but I was anticipating a worse case scenario of What IF?
Execute: The speed limit is 45mph and I was probably going 50 approaching the green light. The Taxi pulled out of the left turn lane almost at a 90 degree angles since it was so close behind another vehcile and started to enter my lane. I hit my horn and swerved at the same time. The horn stopped the Taxi's forward progress, my swerve avoided the collision. I never braked, never rolled off the throttle. I kept on going, no road rage.
In this particular incident, I truly believe these corrective measures would have resulted in a crash.
1. Braking = crash (not enough stopping distance)
2. Swerving without using horn ( horn stopped Taxi's forward progress) = crash
3. Using horn without swerving ( would have hit Taxi as it was in path of travel.
Horn and Swerving. Needed to apply both to avoid this one.
Yes, I could have switched to the middle lane, giving me a buffer lane but what fun what that be, I wouldn't be able to use my HORN! I'm sure it was quite a show for the folks behind me.
I love my horn.
Without both, I wouldn't be posting.
An impatient Taxi waiting at a red light pulled out of a left turn lane.
Search: Coming off a red light at an intersection in the left lane out of three going in the same direction, I noticed two vehicles up ahead at the next intersection , one which was a taxi waiting to turn left to enter the on ramp onto a freeway at a red left turn light on a overpass.
Evaluate: Knowing that I have accelerated quickly coming out of a red light I knew I have made separation with the traffic behind me and anything to my right was open. I noticed that I have a green light up ahead while the left turning vehicles still have the red. But I noticed that the walk signal was still on. I noticed the Taxi in the left turn lane. I knew that this intersection has a very long rotation, and the Taxi driver probaly knew that too. So I was anticipating that he may pull out an go thru the intersection on the green and flip a U-turn. That was my plan too, so I remained in the left lane but I was anticipating a worse case scenario of What IF?
Execute: The speed limit is 45mph and I was probably going 50 approaching the green light. The Taxi pulled out of the left turn lane almost at a 90 degree angles since it was so close behind another vehcile and started to enter my lane. I hit my horn and swerved at the same time. The horn stopped the Taxi's forward progress, my swerve avoided the collision. I never braked, never rolled off the throttle. I kept on going, no road rage.
In this particular incident, I truly believe these corrective measures would have resulted in a crash.
1. Braking = crash (not enough stopping distance)
2. Swerving without using horn ( horn stopped Taxi's forward progress) = crash
3. Using horn without swerving ( would have hit Taxi as it was in path of travel.
Horn and Swerving. Needed to apply both to avoid this one.
Yes, I could have switched to the middle lane, giving me a buffer lane but what fun what that be, I wouldn't be able to use my HORN! I'm sure it was quite a show for the folks behind me.
I love my horn.