Driving question: What is the right answer?

[Signa]

Scenario:
You're getting off of a freeway. There's a line of cars ahead of you and behind you as you get off. The light at the end of the ramp is green, but the lane you need to merge into is filled with cars. They have a red light, so you don't know when they will start to move again. If you don't merge, you don't get to go home, because the road veers in the wrong direction from the free lane.

You are the Blue car

Do you stop at position A with your turn signal on waiting for the second light to turn green so you can merge into the correct lane while letting the cars behind you through, but block the rest of the traffic coming in the currently empty lane?

- or -

Do you stop at the green light in position B and block the cars behind you from getting fully off the freeway, but then anyone can pass from the red light below the picture?

This is rush hour traffic, so there are always cars coming.

 

[gaijinkaiju]

I'd go A, but be as close to the yellow line as possible so that if a car comes up behind, they can still get past

 

[Houseman]

I get off at another exit and file a grievance with my county's traffic planner, and maybe even alert the media. This doesn't happen in places that are well-designed.

 

[Signa]

I get off at another exit and file a grievance with my county's traffic planner, and maybe even alert the media. This doesn't happen in places that are well-designed.

It's too late for that. You're already on the off-ramp. Make your choice fast!

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Stop at B.

 

[Houseman]

I get off at another exit and file a grievance with my county's traffic planner, and maybe even alert the media. This doesn't happen in places that are well-designed.

It's too late for that. You're already on the off-ramp. Make your choice fast!

I can always just go in the right lane where the road veers off and find another way to my destination, even if it means going back on the freeway.

I'd rather inconvenience myself than make traffic worse for a whole lot of people.

 

[Guilion]

Whatever gets me to my house faster, screw the cars behind me, they're probably subhuman.

So, I pick A.

 

[Signa]

It's too late for that. You're already on the off-ramp. Make your choice fast!

I can always just go in the right lane where the road veers off and find another way to my destination, even if it means going back on the freeway.

I'd rather inconvenience myself than make traffic worse for a whole lot of people.

You will make your hour-plus commute take at least 50% longer by going that way. It really is the wrong direction, and rush hour traffic will punish you far more than the people behind you added together from both A and B positions. Seriously, dont do it.

 

[bluegate]

What kind of traffic situation is that? :???:

In any case, I'd stop in position B, I'd rather stand still at a traffic light ( or right after it ) than stand still at the middle of the road in position A, being a hazard to traffic driving on that lane.

 

[Signa]

OK, Reveal time

So, I pick A.

I'd go A

Snip

I have it on good authority that you are all fucking assholes.

Yeah, I chose A, and damn proud of it. I got about 6 people impatiently laying on their horns, expecting me to go take a wrong turn so they could get home 2 minutes earlier. They were all honking and screaming at me after I was finally able to get into my lane, and I just flipped them all back.

While I feel completely justified in my choice of A, I didn't feel good about the event. Pissing people off isn't fun. I wanted to ask you guys to see if what I did was really all that wrong. Seems about 50-50, so that's what I thought. There was no good answer.