In the U.S. a yellow light means the light is turning from green to red, not stop or go... It gives you time to clear the intersection.
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Student fined $400 for Distracted Driving with Apple Watch
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I see what the user was saying about the bike, although perhaps not the best worded. For example, in the UK it is legal (despite what many car drivers think) for motorcycles to filter in stopped traffic, up towards the front of the queue. Cars should not make moves in slow-moving traffic that would endanger the biker. But, they do not HAVE to leave room for a bike to get through - they just can't make a dangerous move. So the entitled "I am allowed to filter" is 100% true, but a car doesn't have to leave the width of a bike.
Similarly, filtering is illegal on solid white lines, chevrons or other prohibitive markings. You cannot filter through a zig-zag line for example. So if the queue of cars crosses a pedestrian crossing, the bike should not filter through at that point. But I've never ever seen a bike stop at that point...have you? This also applies to the coloured section at the front of the road with a bicycle on it. Cars should stop before this, as should bikes - this is for pedal bikes.
We have a biker at work, who is a brilliant guy, and in absolutely no way rides dangerously or thinks hes above the law or anything like that. But I did have to point out that when he was riding behind me, he often put himself in dangerous situations. He forgot he was smaller and in my blind spot, for example. Whilst it is always the vehicle in fronts responsibility to change lane and merge properly, that doesn't mean you can do silly things and say "Well it's not my fault!". No, but fault doesn't matter when you're dead. My colleague hadn't driven a car before and didn't realise how bad the visibility can be at times, even in a good car.
The problem bikers have is they all get tarred with the same brush. If a car driver does something stupid then he's a dick. But if a biker does something stupid then bikers are dicks. That's ridiculous.
As for driving on a phone - if you do it then you're a dick and should be banned.
Similarly, filtering is illegal on solid white lines, chevrons or other prohibitive markings. You cannot filter through a zig-zag line for example. So if the queue of cars crosses a pedestrian crossing, the bike should not filter through at that point. But I've never ever seen a bike stop at that point...have you? This also applies to the coloured section at the front of the road with a bicycle on it. Cars should stop before this, as should bikes - this is for pedal bikes.
We have a biker at work, who is a brilliant guy, and in absolutely no way rides dangerously or thinks hes above the law or anything like that. But I did have to point out that when he was riding behind me, he often put himself in dangerous situations. He forgot he was smaller and in my blind spot, for example. Whilst it is always the vehicle in fronts responsibility to change lane and merge properly, that doesn't mean you can do silly things and say "Well it's not my fault!". No, but fault doesn't matter when you're dead. My colleague hadn't driven a car before and didn't realise how bad the visibility can be at times, even in a good car.
The problem bikers have is they all get tarred with the same brush. If a car driver does something stupid then he's a dick. But if a biker does something stupid then bikers are dicks. That's ridiculous.
As for driving on a phone - if you do it then you're a dick and should be banned.
I've seen people with their phones on a dash mount watching a video, So yeah...fine the hell outta these fools.
Wow. I've not seen that yet--disturbing and stupid that someone would mount a phone on their dashboard and watch Netflix while driving.
She is in California. In California motorcycle lane splitting is not illegal, making it acceptable even in motion. There are more motorcycles in CA than any other State.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/about/lane_splitting
I frequently used to listen to Netflix in the car via bluetooth to the car radio. With Netflix you can turn the screen off which pauses the show, then resume audio-only by hitting the play button on the lock screen. In this way no video is being displayed, but you can hear the audio, and the phone could be in my glove box or pocket or whatever.
Then I read a story about a fatal car collision where the police investigator got the phone records from the surviving at-fault driver and determined that that the driver was watching streaming video at the time. This changed the case from an unfortunate accident to involuntary manslaughter.
It occurred to me that if I got in an accident that killed someone, even though I wasn't watching video, anyone looking up the LTE data record and seeing Netflix would 100% think I was watching video. Any protests on my part about consuming only the audio, although completely truthful, would almost certainly be seen as desperate lies.
So unfortunately I've had to give up on this, even though I don't think there is anything illegal or wrong about listening to audio while driving. Now it is podcasts and audiobooks, but I do miss my audio-only Netflix.