When I pulled up to a stoplight today, I stopped at the thick white line to wait until it turned green. The two cars to my left both stopped a car's length behind the white lane, safe from whatever it is that keeps them from stopping at the line. It can't be that they're afraid of being grazed by a semi because the lines were located to avoid that problem and there's also zero chance that a semi would be turning and hitting them at this particular stoplight.
In fact, when there are sensors located in the road to detect the presence of traffic, stopping that far behind the white line would actually prevent the sensor from noticing the presence of a car.
They must be stupid, which seems to be the same explanation for most of the other idiotic behaviors Marylanders do.
Posted by argyle at March 14, 2005 09:02 PM