Turn "right" on red. Hmm, let's read it again. Turn "right" on red.
I read this traffic sign differently than most. To me it doesn't have a directional meaning. It reads, Turn "privilege" on red. Turn "luxury" on red. Turn "possibility" on red.
No one has the "right" to turn on red. It's not a right. It's not in the constitution, it's not listed in the Bill of Rights and the Bush regime hasn't stomped on it or used it as toilet paper. So you see, it can't possibly be a right.
It's simply a privilege, a luxury, a possibility to be able to turn on red AND it's only these things when there isn't an oncoming vehicle. GUESS WHAT, if you can see a car coming THAT is considered "oncoming"!
Use basic common sense. Car stopped at light must accelerate form 0 to speed limit by the time the oncoming vehicle is at it's bumper. Now, I'm not a math, physics, time-space continuum or even basic algebra genius, but I know enough to figure that equation. That is rarely, if ever, possible without a Formula 1 race car. Even 35 mph is fast compared to the dead stop at which you are starting from.
