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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 2384070" data-attributes="member: 696">It depends on two things, in my opinion: How close am I to the yellow light, and how close is the person behind me? If I'm approaching the light, and I'm not within braking distance, I'm going through that intersection.  I'm in almost as much trouble if I end up idling over the crosswalk or, worse, stuck halfway into the intersection.  (And trust me, the person behind me won't allow me to back up.) Also, if I'm approaching the intersection, and the guy behind me is tailgating (a personal pet peeve of mine...), I'm not going to slam on the brakes to avoid running a red light.  I've been rear-ended three times in three years (hence why tailgating is my pet peeve), and I don't want to be rear-ended again. If that inconveniences you, then it's too bad.  I'd rather not be blocking several lanes of traffic or, worse, wind up with my trunk crushed and my neck suffering from whiplash. Given the chance, with enough room, I'll slow down and stop for a yellow light.  I won't be happy, especially if I should have been able to make that light, but for the actions of people in front of me.  But I'll stop, because it's the right thing to do.  But I'm not going to risk my life to obey the law.  What about when people speed up to prevent you from merging?  I've come to the end of the merge lane, completely unable to merge, simply because people refused to let me in.  (Happened just last week: I almost got sandwiched into the concrete barrier because the guy in the pickup truck didn't let me merge in on my turn.) Of course, there's also the people who use the onramp/offramp lane as a chance to skip ahead of a dozen cars in stop-and-go traffic.  That lane is meant to exit the freeway, or to come on to the freeway, NOT to skip a hundred feet of cars that are bumper-to-bumper. And I particularly hate people who merge in front of me, then allow the next car to merge in front of them.  I don't mind letting one car merge in front of me, but I darn well did my part and now it's someone else's turn to let the merge go on.</blockquote>

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