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by Starmaster on June 13th, 2009
An absolute disaster! Specially on Friday and Saturday nights, after hundreds of "guys who had too many drinks" meet at traffic intersections..... The wild macho of the urban jungle will rule!!!!....Get out of my way you mo&&#_*@,,,,,..
by MyCleverScreenName on June 13th, 2009
Everyone would be crashing into each other.
Ever notice that everyone thinks they have the right of way? Nobody would ever stop unless they really HAD to. It'd be a disaster.
by Barcaluv on June 13th, 2009
by DrivingInstructor on November 6th, 2009
Not necessarily anything out of the ordinary...
IF you can think for yourself AND rely on others to do the same, like in Hanoi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Gssaxl6g
Our Western World is much too regulated which makes us complacent, me thinks.
by Scrappy on June 13th, 2009
Total chaos. You have to consider that some drivers have no judgement whatsoever and at times it's not even safe to be on the road here. I see the worlds population quickly decreasing.
by Defective on June 13th, 2009
The gentleman who invented the traffic light, Garrett Morgan, did so because there were so many traffic accidents. At the time, the automobile was very new still and many people still used horse drawn carriages and wagons for traveling and transporting goods. Neither the automobile, nor the horse drawn vehicles had fast responding brakes, which was the main cause of so many accidents.
Today, vehicles have excellent brake systems; however, they also go much faster than the old cars and horse drawn carriages. So not only would there be utter chaos and many accidents, but the accidents would be much worse and much of the time fatal.
by Bakebyday still baking.. on June 13th, 2009
Be alot of accidents that could of been prevented.
by kat on June 13th, 2009
Huge increases in wrecks,emergency room visits,traffic jams,fights,insurance rates,and deaths!!!!Not a good idea!
by warex255 on November 6th, 2009
In capitols and big cities traffik would be at a stand still. Then the car insurance would be so high that only the richest of people could drive a car.
by branciforte3241 on June 13th, 2009
I actually read an article about this. In those areas of the world where there are no traffic controls at all, accidents are relatively low. I forget the reasons. I think it had to do with people being more careful when they have to develop their own, more intuitive methods for dealing with other drivers.
http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1998
by woggy on June 13th, 2009
It's bad enough WITH traffic lights!
by alwayscurious on June 13th, 2009
I think there would be many many more accidents than there already are. I already see how it is with the judgement of other drivers! +5
by Ilyena on June 13th, 2009
I think that there would be more crashes, with people wanting to cut off and be rude, and traffic would be even more horrible than it is now.
by sm00z on June 13th, 2009
Many of us will be wearing steering wheel sombreros.
by Craigor on June 13th, 2009
Pretty bad, considering what we have WITH traffic lights.
by Lucky on June 13th, 2009
Grid Lock!
by Talamasca on June 13th, 2009
Extreme lowering of world population.
by Gone on June 13th, 2009
Crash,bang and wallop
by Roadapple Cider on June 13th, 2009
A lot of road rage, flipping the bird, cussing and fender benders.
by Over and Out on June 13th, 2009
It would be a mess!
by nice jugs on June 13th, 2009
traffic would flow easier,,,,
by Cyanotic Wasp on June 13th, 2009
Sociologically speaking, if we were the kind of society that thought we could try this with reasonable success, we'd probably already be driving flying cars to the Moon for five-month vacations.
On the one or two days a year when the power goes out to some of the lights at major intersections in this little suburban town it results in massive tie-ups until a cop can arrive to do the traffic control himself.
On the topic: I realized that traffic lights mean different things in different parts of the US. In New England a red light generally means "stop unless it's late at night and there's no traffic". In Phoenix, a red light means "only the next five cars may proceed."
by azlotto on June 13th, 2009
more lawyers +5
by wrdweaver on June 13th, 2009
Total chaos. (Course I think there are some people who do that now).
by ConservativelyLiberal on June 13th, 2009
I was once told, that back in the early early days of the car, there were only two in all of Ohio, and they hit each other.
by Gene H on November 6th, 2009
Gridlock. Deadlock. Poppycock.
by ILoveMySteaks ... is thinking. on June 14th, 2009
Impossible. Insurance rates would be so high, no one would be able to afford to drive a car at all!!
by The_Angry_Clam on June 14th, 2009
Hahah...I got one thing to say OMG Hurgada Egypt. I don't know how they do it;my eyes were closed half the time but they use their horns a lot! XD
by RC loves ice cream on June 13th, 2009
There would be no more traffic accidents.
.. because all traffic would jam in a massive gridlock and nobody would be able to move their cars ever again :)
by douchebarge on June 13th, 2009
I used to live in a town with not one, but three one-lane covered bridges. For the most part, drivers waited patiently in line to cross the bridge, alternating directions. Occasionally, some jerk would decide to go immediately after the car before him had gone, and would risk a head-on collision as the people waiting on the other side expected to go as soon as the oncoming car exited the tunnel. This "one car at a time" protocol led to long traffic jams at these bridges at busy times.
I currently live in a large city with a great many unregulated intersections. Very few of the accidents that occur in my city happen at these intersections- mostly they take place on the freeways or the "main drags". Most accidents that occur on the intersections of streets with traffic lights are a result of people ignoring or running the light.
To summarize, if we had no traffic lights, there might or might not be more accidents on high-traffic streets. There certainly would be long lines of slow slow slow traffic waiting to cross: that's a *best case* scenario.
by lovebettafish on June 13th, 2009
Chaos, road rage, murder, & car accidents.
by han8661 on June 13th, 2009
oddly i think road accidents would get less as people would have to start paying more attention and read the road more. This would result in quicker reaction times and less people being idiots.
by Sparky on June 13th, 2009
I'd think slower traffic and considering the quality of the average local driver, well it may not really make much of a difference.
Actually, in my City, there was a major intersection of two four lane roads, with turn lanes, that only had stop signs until about 18 years ago. It was a real problem. The flow of traffic through that intersection improved significantly after it was signalized.
by Greekgod on June 13th, 2009
No problem at all. Do it already in places in holland and yhings like traffic flow are better
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lol! Thanks, rameystarman +6
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