Turn on red

So we're getting off the freeways, we're getting off the highways, and we're getting into the suburban city streets, residential streets.

And so the first one is that when you're at a intersection, like this one, is that the right turn on red is the default in the USA.

This particular intersection is in San Francisco and it does have a little sign up there that you can see that says no turn on red.

But in general, if you don't see a sign that says no right turn on red, that means you can make a right turn on red.

This confuses a lot of people because most people look and see that there's a red light and I just... shouldn't go.

But in the USA, what the rule book will say is it will say that if you're at a four-way intersection like this with a traffic light and the traffic light is red and you're in the turn lane that goes to the right and there's no traffic coming, you may make a right turn on that red light.

The unspoken rule of the road is not that you may make a right turn on red when there's no traffic.

It is that you will make a right turn on red if there's no traffic.

And actually, this is three different listener emails that I'm going to list here.

Joel Cohn says we should get rid of Right Turn on Red.

That right turn on red is dangerous, that it actually causes a lot of accidents, that people shouldn't be so impatient.

They should wait their turn to turn on red.

And we should also have severe penalties for jaywalking.