I just realized what most people think a Yield Sign means.
It means get 2 inches from the back bumper of the person in front of you as you enter the highway, so you won't have to yield at the yield sign and make the other drivers approaching at highway speed on the highway Yield in order not to Slam into you
Oh did I mention I like my C7

 

Love mine as well.
Probably spend more time then most watching the car behind. An AH on my bumper will get various methods to get them off and let them tailgate another car!
Turning on the lights so they think you hit your brakes can work. On an Interstate carefully slowing to force them to pass and smiling if they give you a "hand gesture." Or on an interstate sometimes just getting out of the way and "telling yourself" we need the ticket money so keep going 15 miles+ over the speed limit! Lots of radar traps going thru town on I95!
Been driving for over 50 years and never had an accident with another car (knock on wood!) Luck is certainly a factor but keeping AH's off my bumper certainly has helped!

In fact more concerned today as many are distracted holding their phone (allowed in SC) or worse texting (a $25 fine in our state.) When they start treating it like DUI perhaps it will get better!

 

Seems to me that you are driving one of the FASTEST cars on the road....with "slight" pressure on the accelerator any problems entering ANY highway are non existent...and the same goes for someone on your backside.....And, as far as "carefully" slowing down on a Interstate to make/FORCE someone to pass you to elicit a "hand Gesture" is dangerous and tells me what the heck are you doing in any other lane other than the right lane in the first place.... In Florida is is NOW against the law to stay in the left lane doing the SPEED LIMIT with cars behind you. I was taught in the 1950's when I started driving on public roads to KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS.....

 

Around here it means "Blast through the intersection at the speed limit if you think you can make it." No, wait. That's what the stop sign means. My bad.

 

Corrective action is just increasing your speed. Works every time!

 

Yield means exactly what it means, look at traffic WHILE APPROACHING the intersection, if no traffic exists continue. It's one step down from a flashing yellow light.

 

Down here it seems the Yield sign means the people on the highway must yield to the morons whipping up the on ramp! I do believe that with so many people from all over the country and Canada that Florida has the worst drivers in the states.

 

Yep I got my license in the late '50's and it was illegal to drive on the left in the state where I grew up! When I can, I don't travel even at the speed limit + 5 to 8 mph in the left lane. When I have room I will accelerate and move over. Even when in the center lane some folks think since I have a Vette I will be their "rabbit" and hang on my bumper so I will be the one triggering radar! But I am traveling my 5 to 8 mph over the limit to avoid getting a ticket!
However when coming thru Florence SC on I95 there is now a 5+ mile stretch where Rt 20 intersects that was recently lowered from 70 mph to a 60 mph limit. We have had a number of folks killed in that area, several recently.
Great spot for a speed trap! If you stay in the middle lane you risk someone who doesn't realize if they stay in the right lane they are going on RT20! They swing over to the left at the last second forcing 18 wheelers etc to come into the left lane since I95 goes from 3 to 2 lanes at that point.
I keep speed at 65 to 68 mph, since they love giving Vettes tickets in those speed traps! Prior to that intersection with RT20 there is also a very short entrance ramp over an overpass and again folks coming in are forced quickly into the right lane. Had a death there recently as well. Hence the 60 mph limit.
I often see folks barreling down at 85+ mph coming from up North probably going to Florida and they may not see the small 60 mph sign or not care! Recently had a gal in an Alpha behind me on my bumper talking on her cell phone and looking all around! I was able to get out of her way!
That is one reason I take the back roads 16 miles into town and avoid I95 but at times need to take it. The main reason is the cows and corn don't care how fast I'm driving on the rural farm roads!
As I said, I have never had an accident with another car in over 50 years of driving (looking for wood) and defensive driving in addition to luck is needed.

 

Yup.. that's what I was trying to say
Drivers on the ramp get real close together and form a train and must think that means they don't have to Yield

 

Just left Florida, and I can not argue with you there Mike. Seems to me that they can't even stay in the lane they are in without straying into the lane next to them.

BTW, Many folks in North Carolina think those red eight sided signs are yield signs.

 

Yield signs in Maryland - My impression of the Yellow triangular signs in Maryland is it is viewed as a meaningless, colorful, somewhat decorative sign that the state puts up. I witnessed a MD driver on the onramp onto Rt 15, Thurmont, MD, blow through the Yield sign, cut off the vehicle already on the highway (and he kept on going), forcing him to loose control, went across the median, across the two oncoming lanes of traffic (without hitting anyone) and then crashing into a tree on the other side. His wife died and he was taken to the hospital. That was a shock, but when the cop did not seem that interested in arresting the perp I was really taken back. I did provide a description of vehicle and license. Later when I was contacted by the Insurance company - I was told the police called is a case of loosing control of vehicle.

 

See in Michigan we don't have Yield signs for on ramps. We have merge signs, you HAVE to let the car onto the freeway.

However we have those lovely Michigan Lefts (turn around on divided highways) and most of those are Stop (which everyone treats as a Yield) or Yield Signs.

Basically Stop means Yield, and Yield means, Sorta Yield.