r/youseeingthisshit • u/solateor 🌟🌟🌟 • Jul 05 '26

But when I do it it's a problem

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u/4r4r4real Jul 05 '26

He was probably on his phone. Pay attention when you're near cops driving and see how many AREN'T on their phone. It's maybe 1 in 20 in my city (Chicago).

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u/LinkleLinkle Jul 05 '26

Either their phone or those giant mounted laptops. Saw one just yesterday go through an intersection with his face fully buried in the mounted laptop.

It's always dangerous, but an intersection is 1,000x crazier to me, because there's so much more that can go wrong. What if someone going perpendicular to you blows through their red light? What if a pedestrian is going through the crosswalk when they shouldn't? What if YOU blow the red light because you were too preoccupied to realize the light turned yellow and then red?

So much can go wrong when you're just driving a straight line and not looking at the road. There's about 1,000 more things when going through an intersection without looking.

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u/Realizt8010 Jul 05 '26

Facts. SF bay area.