This feels like an analogy for bike lanes.
As an aside, are there real L-shaped traffic light stacks? I’ve always seen them with the arrow at the bottom. The direction of the arrow makes it perfectly understandable without putting it off to the side. But I could imagine a traffic light company marketing these.
Where exactly are those cars heading? There’s no road forward and only one lane to the right.
Turning left.
The comic definitely made it more confusing by choosing the main (non-intersecting) road of a T junction to illustrate this. In most countries, if this road splits into two lanes, the left-turning lane would split off, and the right-turning lane would go straight.
Edit: Apparently, this style of junction is more common in the US. In Europe, I’ve only seen this kind of junction on highways, but that would be without traffic lights and with a much longer turning lane.
And not signaling. That tracks.
That lawn on the right won’t plow itself, amirite?
This is just one more instance where riding a motorcycle is nice. See also, parking.
Inaccurate. It’s two cars with 1.5 car lengths in front of each.
You’re right, this is worse.
Even more annoying is when the green car leaves 2+ car lengths in front of it so the car behind can’t get into the turn lane if they need to.
