Things people don't know about the highway traffic act

[G.mech]

Here's the one I see all the time in my area: Side street intersects with main street. Stop signs on side, none on main. Driver arrives at stop, waiting for traffic to clear on main to make a left turn. In the meantime I arrive at stop waiting to go thru. When traffic clears driver waits for me thinking I have the ROW-----but I don't! I wait a few secs in case he/she just has slow reaction time. Then one of us waves the other on. It would be nice and make for better traffic flow if the drivers knew that the 'left is last' rule is just a tie breaker for the case when both drivers arrive at the same time.

 

It's funny you mention that one because I was taught that 'left was last' when I took drivers ed many moons ago. My teenage kids recently corrected me as they have been taught that the first one there has the right of way (which I argued but lost when we looked it up)...and here I thought I knew everything

Edited December 20, 2014 by G.mech