> My favorite is when your light turns green
> which means that the other traffic must have been red for 3-4 seconds
> yet cars are still continuing to go through the intersection trying to 
> 'beat' the red.

In the UK at least I see a lot of junctions where the instant one direction 
changes from amber to red, the other changes from red to red+amber.  If you 
have a 3-4 second delay where all directions are on red, then of course 
people are going to be tempted to carry on jumping the red for a few seconds 
after it's switched from green.

> Another is when you are going to make a right turn and almost hit the guy 
> that's been driving on the shoulder for 1/4 mile to make his right turn.

Hehe, I guess you don't need to look out for cyclists while making right 
turns there, here you just get into the habit of *always* looking to the 
right - alongside and behind you - before actually turning.

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