For driving, what is "yield the right-of way" mean??

Question

im reading the driver's manual and im reading the traffic signal section and it say when you come to a red light you can "yield the right-of way but i dont get it

Answer 1

yield means as long as no one else is coming you can go, and "right of way" means the car without the yield doesn't have to stop.

like if you we're getting onto a highway, you would have a yield sign. cars that are already on the highway have the right of way. so if there are no cars on the highway then you can go.

Answer 2

Would that mean that you have the ability to yield the right of way to someone turning right in the oncoming traffic?  I'm not sure what this means at a red light, since you can't yield your right of way while not moving.

Other posters have already touched on definitions of right of way and yield.  This seems like odd wording to me.

Answer 3

You must allow the other driver to go first.  In other words, when two-lanes become one, the car in the lane that continues must allow (or yield the right of way) the car in the lane that in ending a spot in the single lane.

Hope I helped and good luck!