Lights Out

[neek951]

Virginia law states to treat dead signals as 4 way stops. I just finished drivers ed.

[vbdenny]

@neek951 absolutely correct. Virginia law does treat non functioning signals as 4 way stops however Virginia drivers (apparently) do not. In reality, it was a free for all.

[jro9001]

what was the cause of this?

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 Hurricane

[jro9001]

@vbdenny u should have stayed home instead of going over 20 miles looking for gas

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 NO electricity for 10 days, I needed gas for my generaotor

[jro9001]

@vbdenny at least the radio still works

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 I have my generator set up so it powers the entire house. I had TV, Internet and everything. Others lost all food in their freezers and suffered more.

[wrale577]

I learned to drive in Florida and state law says roads with signals out are to be treated as a 4 way stop it was a question on my permit test and written test prior to the driving test.

[vbdenny]

@wrale577 Virginia says the same thing. You can see how that worded out.

[vbdenny]

Virginia Beach claimed $10 million in damages to its 17-mile coast. But the beach did not sustain as much erosion as it might have a decade ago because the city added 4 million cubic yards of sand in 2001 — the equivalent of a line of dump trucks stretching from Virginia Beach to Denver.

[kevrosmith]

In Oz, when lights are out, regular intersection rules are meant to apply: "give way to your right" (probably "yield to your left" in US), though on major thoroughfares, the larger volume of traffic continues to take right-of-way and the side streets are left taking risks to get out!

[Dotsirammi]

bumb and run? lol.5/5*

[JcBrooks651]

wow people can't drive down there, your suppose to treat a flashing or blank stoplight like a 4-way stop sign, i dont know the law in Virgina but im sure its the same

[vbdenny]

ha, you got that right. Here in Hampton Roads we have drivers from every state and many countries. We run on luck around here. By the way, where is "up there?"

[JcBrooks651]

St. Paul, MN

[Wannabe000]

I just hate how this happends some times, but I like the song dude :D

Good vid keep it up man lol

[vbdenny]

thanks

[davidreynolds87]

Very interesting. Here in Bristol, they are talking about experimenting with abolishing the lights on several junctions. Take away the lights and people become more careful at junctions, and generally more courteous and considerate of others. And traffic flows better.

I've always thought, those big, multi-lane US intersections are ripe for conversion into European-style roundabouts. Perhaps that would speed things up and save lives.

[vbdenny]

roundabouts, also called a rotary or traffic circle keeps traffic moving. They have a couple around the northeast, never seen them in any other part of the US. With the traffic signals inoperative, people were much more cautious but some were not as considerate as others. Those unwilling to nose out were left sitting as you saw with the minivan ahead of me. All back on now.

[sparkleberry75]

I've heard about places where traffic flows better without stoplights, but I don't think any of those places are in the "Megalopolis" or anything similar to it.

[Bryant5493]

Pleasant Valley Road looks like a road that my uncle lives off of in Chesapeake. It's right off of I-664, as you transfer from U.S. 58 East to I-664 North.

It's dangerous driving around with lights flashing or blacked-out, because folks don't know how to approach them. Some, come full speed, and some just sit, sit and sit.

[vbdenny]

PW Rd is in VB, It wasn't too bad driving around you just have to watch out

[Bryant5493]

Okay.

Yeah, indeed. I was driving to school one day and the lights were blacked-out like in your vid, so I just went with the flow. People were orderly, for the most part.

[CAMINOANDALUZ]

well, in spite of the rain. :)

Here in sevilla, it rains four water drops and everything stops working. :(

[04smallmj]

Cool, traffic flows better without lights. Looks like people had to actually concentrate as well!

[vbdenny]

there was some of that.

[04smallmj]

lol