No, you have misunderstood what I meant by "your turn to go." I am not talking about alternating turns at a four-way stop, but about the turn of the cars that yield. Consider a U.S. intersection with a two-lane through road in one direction, and a side road with a yield sign coming into it. A line of cars on the side road all wish to turn right onto the through road. When there's a break in traffic, it's the first car's turn to go.
But in U.S. driving, drivers don't normally do this. They pause, hesitate, look around to make sure there isn't anyone coming from another direction, wait for cars in the left lane just on the off-chance they might change lanes, wait for cars way down the road in the right lane when they could easily squeeze in before then without causing brake-slamming.
That's what would be fatal in British driving. When it's YOUR TURN, you just go. That has NOTHING TO DO with whether anybody else has to wait for a turn. In a situation governed by a yield sign, which almost all British intersections are, that's an irrelevant question.
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Date: 2013-06-19 03:45 pm (UTC)But in U.S. driving, drivers don't normally do this. They pause, hesitate, look around to make sure there isn't anyone coming from another direction, wait for cars in the left lane just on the off-chance they might change lanes, wait for cars way down the road in the right lane when they could easily squeeze in before then without causing brake-slamming.
That's what would be fatal in British driving. When it's YOUR TURN, you just go. That has NOTHING TO DO with whether anybody else has to wait for a turn. In a situation governed by a yield sign, which almost all British intersections are, that's an irrelevant question.