159 Cal. App. 4th 190 - Gilmer v. Ellington’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[Tjhere would be reactive negative consequences to the community by imposing a duty on the yielding driver; most notably, a relaxed vigilance by left-turning drivers who may rely unthinkingly on ambiguous signals from other drivers, or at least claim to have done so. At a time when “road rage” is unhappily common, the added duty may further erode what infrequent civility is left on the roads. If the common courtesy of yielding the right-of-way results in lawsuits, we can expect further egocentric driving.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Key v. Hamilton