You want real fun? Introduce traffic circles. Nobody, but nobody in California has the slightest clue what to do, despite copious signage. What should keep traffic moving smoothly through a maze of on/off/access ramps turns into total gridlock the second Edna and her Nash rambler get off the freeway (where they were doing 45 mph.)
That’s why God gave us car horns.
Seriously, there’s nothing more irritating than getting behind some cunt driving under the speed limit. Why the fuck do they do it? I’ll never understand what causes somebody to habitually drive 5mph under the limit. Either drive at the limit, or get the fuck off the road. Jesus.
Same kind of intersection, slightly different issue.
There’s an intersection like that that I drive through twice a day, 5 days a week, where I’m the one turning right. The following doesn’t happen every day, but I’d say it happens at least a few times a month.
Someone will be driving in the other lane (the one to the left of my lane that I’m turning right into), either turning left opposite me, or crossing straight across the intersection from my left. They’ll slam on their brakes, and/or honk at me, and/or flip me off/curse at me. Why? We’re in two different lanes! We can both keep going at our current speeds with no risk of collision whatsoever so long as we each stay in our own lanes. The hell are you getting pissed at me for?
Occasionally, it’ll turn out the person was trying to get into my lane because they were turning right soon (I still had the right-of-way, but at least I can sort of see how I was “in their way”). Most of the time though, they were staying in their lane anyway! Absolutely no reason whatsoever that me driving in my lane should have any affect on them driving in their lane.
Man, talking about citing your source! I had a good and serious chuckle at you providing the images from Google maps. For these types, I think I shall install a rocket launcher on my car.
I just had the same expeirience as the OP a week ago.
I didn’t get upset though. I just drove around the offender, smiled at him as I went by and continued on with my right turn, hoping he would feel like an idiot.
I’ve often been in one of the two vehicles in that situation. But I’ll be driving a sedan, and the left-turner coming at me is driving some elephantine vehicle that blocks my view of the oncoming traffic.
In my experience the signage has been perfectly adequate. After watching the program “Canada’s Worst Driver,” I’m pretty sure the problem is that the drivers don’t know what those signs mean. I wish to hell I was kidding. Course, that still doesn’t explain the ones who do it every day. What explains them is that you don’t have to be trained or competent to get a driver’s license in Canada.
Not entirely. When I lived in Seattle, I lived on a major thoroughfare, just where it intersected with a side street. I’d parked and was about to get out of the car when another car turned from the side street onto the main road. Then I heard squealing brakes, honking, and a major collision. Two cars ended up on the sidewalk in front of the house, and almost hit a friend of mine.
It’s not quite the same as what the OP is describing. The car that was turning onto the main road didn’t have its own lane, but that driver must have expected the other car to stay in the lane he was in. Unfortunately, the other driver chose that moment to move over to the right. He may have even been checking his blind spot and not seen the guy pull out in front of him.
Before everybody piles on me for being one of those idiots that stops, I’m not. At an instersection like in the OP, I’ll look to my left and see if anyone looks like they’re heading for my lane. Then I try to line up the turn so I’m not going to be exactly side-by-side with someone. I don’t hold up traffic, but I don’t trust the magic white line to be my only defense, either.
In fairness, if you continue down the road in Streetview, the guy was trying to get into the left lane immediately after the right turn.
What you’re describing is proper defensive driving (not blindly expecting everything to go perfectly, but being aware and pro-active); just stopping when you have a lane is not defensive driving - it’s unpredictable, dangerous driving.
ROTFLMAO
Same for this one - look at all the effing brake lights - but in their defence, some rocket scientist put that yield to pedestrians sign right where it is repeatedly misinterpreted…
Whenever I take a right here and I don’t have a green light, I stop before continuing. Even though the left hand lane turning in only has two lanes and the right hand turn turns into a “new” lane, more than 10% of the people turning left onto University are going to the McDonalds or Ale House to the right and so will immediately turn into the new lane.
Nice, well-document rant, but that’s clearly a Tucson, not a Santa Fe.
It’s a quarter mile before the left turn. He doesn’t need to be in the left lane immediately. And you’ll note I mentioned his lane change in the OP. 
Tucson? I wasn’t even aware of the existence of a non-Santa Fe SUV from Hyundai.
GAH! That makes it worse! There was no need to immediately get into the left lane, since there was no immediate opportunity to turn left. If he had used his ramp lane to get up to speed, as is proper, he’d have had a much easier time fading into the left lane well before he needed to.
Disagree … it is a neither Littlenor Shitty (Consumer reports top-pick for Midsize SUV) Santa Fe… 
Speaking for myself, I blame this on people who drive SUVs, minivans or other assorted land yachts. I drive a compact car, and I can’t see through the giant vehicle on the other side, so I can’t see what’s coming. If he’d hurry the fuck up and move, I could go, but he needs 400 yards of clear road to turn in because his stupid Land Cruiser takes six weeks to hit sixty miles per hour.
Ha! I was just thinking of that intersection - and most of the other ones around here seem to be the same way (ie., cross- or turning traffic is all trying to get to somewhere in “your” lane).
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that what is pictured in the photo is a Santa Fe being driven by a female. Yes, in other words, a woman driving an SUV. If that is the case, well, then your question’s pretty much answered right there.
There was an OP? Where?
(I’m just trying to slow this rant down as much as possible before sloooooooowly pulling out into the Pit)
Same thing in the Tidewater area of Virginia. People brake going into the tunnel even though there is no reason to do so. As a consequence of the brake-light cascade there will sometimes be this huge 4-mile backup going into the tunnel on I-64, but by the time you’re in the tunnel things start to speed up. When you’re leaving the tunnel you’re going 55 MPH again.
Anyway, back to the OP, I know what you mean. But if there are driveways coming off the merged-onto lane, there will be drivers trying to come into that right lane that you have to watch. Just beacause you have the “right of way” doesn’t mean someone won’t merge into the side of your vehicle.