We don't even have those 'yield' signs... I know how those work (I've gotten plenty of miles crossing the USA during various vacations), but over here a red light means stop. That's it. There is no right-on-red or anything of the sort.
In some cases
right turns have been changed so you can continue driving by making the turning traffic enter it's own lane, or you run into situations where
right turning traffic has to give pedestrians and bicycles the right of way.Then again... we also don't have schoolbusses and their specific rules, whereas we do have a lot of roundabouts which are a rarity in the US. Not to mention
turbo roundabouts (which basically split lanes on the roundabout) which I have never even seen in the US. Or a
real fun roundabout with no traffic lights and double lanes... just so traffic can come at you from all sides.
Intersections with us also work differently in so far that it's not the order of arriving at the crossing that determines who goes next, but with us it's always the traffic coming from the right that gets to go first. And while stop signs work the same here as the USA, I find that in the USA that rule is more taken to heart by the drivers than it is here. Yes, if it's hard to see, I'll stop, but if I can clearly make out no traffic is coming, while I do slow down, I'm not stopping completely. I'm coasting through... While US drivers usually tend to come to most of a stop before increasing speed again.
I like driving in the US better tho... Atleast you folk can talk your way out of tickets. Over here you get the ticket in the mail, you can appeal it, but mostly your appeal will be dismissed unless you have some compelling evidence (speed camera's tend to do that). And while cops do cite tickets, that's rarely for speeding or redlight infractions (which make up the bulk). Hell, the
A2 highway here is 5 lanes, but requires 100 kph / 60 mph during the day hours. Only after 19:00 to 06:00 you can increase speed to 130 kph / 80 mph. And you WILL drive the limit (none of that 5 to 10 miles per hour over crap you can do in the US), seeing they have that stretch of road under a distance control check. Then snap a picture of your licenseplate at the start of a stretch, they snap another pic at the end of that stretch, compare times, and calculate your average speed. If it's more than allowed, the citation is issued automatically. The bit between Utrecht and Amsterdam (30 km / 20 miles) is cut up into 5 sections that do that.