Right Hand Turns and Qualcomm

Yes, I saw that. However the way the OP run from the QC GPS subject was kind of funny.

 

Stand up open the window and wave your hands like you just dont care. That'll make u miss the curb. Or get a rubber bumper and make the idiots over the crossing line wish they had stayed behind it.

 

Yeah I got it from the start but ... Right Hand Turns and Qualcomm sounds an awful like the Qualcomm put him in the situation.

However I would like to point out that a lot of drivers want cars to move out of the way for them, saw this yesterday as I am sitting in the left turn lane three cars from the front on a five lane road. The driver was making such a wide turn, he didn't set it up right or looked at who was in the lanes.

He wasn't happy then the lead car flipped him off after scaring the crap out of all of us in line by laying on the horn, there was no where to go.

AND to top if off seeing he was stuck there because the traffic from our opposite lanes all came over when the light turned green for us then when it was green for cross traffic, more people entered the intersection. NO one in the left lane could move anywhere through nine light cycles. It ended when the cops came told the driver to back up so the left lane can get cleared and that took a lot of doing because the cars piled up behind him.

 

From a new drivers perspective the right choice isn't always clear. If there were 3 cars there waiting to turn left, I would not have pushed out, I would have waited. I'm sure experienced drivers have an instinct in those situations, but new drivers like me have to access every situation. It takes some discipline when you are doing it 50+ times a day, and the minute you get lazy you find yourself in a pickle like what you just described.

Usually when I am driving to a new location in a city somewhere I've never been to I look on Google Satellite and have a look at the area. It helps tremendously. Especially when the GPS tries to route you down a questionable road, you can keep driving and have an idea about where you can go without running up on curbs or getting stuck.

Hopefully the guy from your story learned something.

 

One thing I learned many years ago. Stay put in bad situations. If you find yourself in a hole toss that shovel away. Get in a bad situation and move that truck the results can get expensive. Left turns are the worse in my book. For some insane reason people driving cars and other light vehicles want to butt up against the crosswalks. This paralyzes young drivers as well as us old hands. You MUST not move till that vehicle gets out of the way. never lose sight of that tracking difference. If you have to, call a cop. Move into the intersection and can't finish that turn you can get a ticket. I know because I got one in St Louis.

 

Was it one of those turns that looks deceptively doable but isn't a 90 degree turn, more closer to 45 degrees? I hate those. Even with two lanes to turn into, you have to use the left turning lane on the other side of the road.

 

Instead of a box turn or a jug handle I wanna start a new turn style. I’ll call it the backwards question mark turn. You are the dot at the bottom. You need to make a giant sweeping right turn that looks like the question mark but backwards. You hog both lanes and swing way out into oncoming traffic. That’s how I do it. Dig?

 

Are you trying to turn right back into the same tracks you started in??!!!

 

So you pull out, swing to the right, but turn left, and keep turning until you are pointed into that road originally to your right you want to turn in to. That's brilliant. Absolute.