Mexico Driving: What would you do?

or   What should you do?

For all tourists who plan to rent a car in Mexico,  because “I know how drive…  and buses are for  ……..”,    here’s a brief test.  (Assuming you could easily navigate all the odds and ends listed in Driving in Mexico (cruising?)

Aha!  Mexico is a Belt and Suspenders kind of country, eh?

You stop, right?
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Now what should you do?

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You should stop,  right?

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This time  go,

or hesitate,  and then go?  (pull a California Stop?)

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Clearly time to stop.

(Yucatan really is a safety minded place, which is why we only had one murder last year in a city of 1 million people.)

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I’ve shown the extra examples to prove that the first 2 examples weren’t just quirks or the sign installers union gone bonkers (or Photoshop jobs).

Those were easy. . .

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Now what???

GO!   right?

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Unnngh,  “Go” was not the right choice…..

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And now what?

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I was stopped at this weird ½-glorieta**, as the first car in line, dead-even with the semaforo on the left, so, I couldn’t see the first light, and could only see the second.   Green Arrow derecho lights up: I drove into the intersection and almost got . . .

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T-Boned  by a car flying-in, horns blaring,

from   the   left.

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Still planning to drive that rental car in Mexico?

**½-Glorietas:  The weird ones where there is a smallish-circle in the middle of the intersection,  but has peculiar little 2-car-length turn-out/around lanes on the right and left sides of the main through-way, where drivers are allowed to use the turn-out lanes to make left turns at some glorietas and not at others:  if unsure, check all lights and proceed cautiously. . .

Anybody got their own stories/fotos  to share?

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