No! At a yellow you speed up. Put your foot down and beat the red light. Everyone knows that.
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I hate America's traffic lights...
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I've never stopped a car for going through a yellow. Mostly as long as it's pretty close when it turns red, it's fine. If you hit that white line when it turns red, I'm ok with that. Wouldn't make a fuss over it unless someone else was endangered; which usually isn't the case.
Umm, you shouldn't be on the road if you don't understand the road rules.
Something like this would be ideal, but the assholes treating the roads like race tracks mean we can't have nice things:
Is this a countdown to green? I use crosswalk timers for that.
You can always glance at the crosswalk timer for a heads up on whether it's about to turn yellow.
Yellow means stop - with the only exception being if you are coming in too fast and would have to make a sudden break, in that case you continue on. It's super easy to understand.. no wonder usa is the one first world country where traffic fatalities are increasing.
Yellow does not mean that it's ok to continue if you can "make it".
Yellow does not mean that it's ok to continue if you can "make it".
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Just picture this.
Imagine that you are traveling in a moderate speed street... Let's say 40 mph. You could see from a far far distance the blinking green lights. That way you can stop accelerating from a very far distance.
Imagine that you are traveling in a moderate speed street... Let's say 40 mph. You could see from a far far distance the blinking green lights. That way you can stop accelerating from a very far distance.
Is that not common? Some intersections in my country have counters.Umm, you shouldn't be on the road if you don't understand the road rules.
Something like this would be ideal, but the assholes treating the roads like race tracks mean we can't have nice things:
If you are aren't speeding the yellow should give you enough time to get through or come to a stop
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I agree that just the yellow light for warning isnt adequate. Mainly because red light cameras exist. Red light cameras should not exist if theres no secondary warning signal since very car they flash entered the intersection on a yellow.
In my city you have to look at the pedestrian light as a warning signal. Ie. If the walk countdown is at 10 then you know the light will be green for awhile. If it's at 1 then prepare for a yellow.
In my city you have to look at the pedestrian light as a warning signal. Ie. If the walk countdown is at 10 then you know the light will be green for awhile. If it's at 1 then prepare for a yellow.
That's because your yellow light is too short that you need the three green blinking lights. Just accept that once it turns yellow, that's your warning and to treat it as the beginning of your blinking green light. The blinking green is redundant. There's no real need for it when you treat the yellow in that fashion.
You're not selling anyone on it other than you're not driving safely in the US.
Red light cameras don't work like that. They take a picture the instant it turns red. If you're already in the intersection at the time, you're fine. It's when you're not in the intersection that you get hit with the ticket. Being in the intersection when it turns red is okay, as long as you were in it when it was yellow.
Umm, you shouldn't be on the road if you don't understand the road rules.
Something like this would be ideal, but the assholes treating the roads like race tracks mean we can't have nice things:
Given that many red lights /green lights here activate based on traffic, that would be hard to implement. The length they stay red is variable.
When it works right it does make things a lot smoother.
They do have those sorts of timed lights in the US, but for pedestrians in downtown areas, where the time you can walk/not walk is given.
And now people are speeding so they can enter the intersection on a yellow.
Some of the long lights here in Bangkok have countdown timers. Its.... kinda depressing to see you've got 3-4 minutes to wait on a red. But also, kinda nice.
and if we added a blinking green into a yellow light people wouldn't drag race to beat the red?
bold thinking I guess...
Umm, you shouldn't be on the road if you don't understand the road rules.
Something like this would be ideal, but the assholes treating the roads like race tracks mean we can't have nice things:
How do these timers work with ambulances? Since ambulances can turn nearby lights red.
There is a particular light on touhy that always causes a blocked intersection because one intersection goes green while the next intersection literally 40 feet down the road stays red. Its miserable. Driving around the city makes me a nervous wreck, sometimes even more so than in LA thanks to all the pothole dodging you have to do.
We already do though. Some traffic lights have pre emptive flashing yellow lights to warn you the light ahead will turn yellow. Those work fine dont they?
Having driven all over the world the traffic lights in America are not the best, I would agree. I think the problem is they start turning to the warning stage when you are too far away from them, so if you are travelling at speed you either have to floor it or slam on the breaks, which is especially hairy on fast roads.
It always makes for an interesting few weeks after you hand the hire car back to see if you received any tickets during your rental!
It always makes for an interesting few weeks after you hand the hire car back to see if you received any tickets during your rental!
Someone speeding through is doing it because they don't want to wait through a light cycle. Changing how that is indicated won't change them not wanting to wait.
Because they have a 7 second warning now instead of 3.
Let's apply this reasoning to pedestrian lights. Instead of the countdown let's just have a yellow warning. See how that works.
the only actually useful thing I learned in driver's ed was this:
The white lane separator lines leading up to a lighted intersection are actually guides to whether you're likely make the light if it turns yellow while you're heading for it. If you're within the lines and going the speed limit (or above) you'll make it. If you're still behind the point where the lines begin, you should stop.
The white lane separator lines leading up to a lighted intersection are actually guides to whether you're likely make the light if it turns yellow while you're heading for it. If you're within the lines and going the speed limit (or above) you'll make it. If you're still behind the point where the lines begin, you should stop.
yea now people got 7 seconds to mash the gas in their minivans instead of 3
they already don't need to, 3 seconds is more than enough time to stop after a light turns yellow when you are more than a couple hundred feet back, unless you are already speeding. and if you are less than a couple hundred feet from the light there is more than enough time to cross the intersection safely. y'all are creating a problem where there isn't one.
So you're telling me when you come up to the intersections with the countdown pedestrian lights you never look at them to gauge when the light will turn yellow?
Yeah. Ok.
God. When traffic lights are down because of power outages is when the real fuck-os come out.
When we come to your country, we'll find out and adapt. And we expect you to do the same when you come here if you plan to drive. It's not that hard.
I was talking to Americans as an American, implying that most Americans dont know their own rules lol
What are you even talking about?
The point I'm making is extra indicators in addition to the yellow light really won't do anything. Like if you add another indicator before the yellow light people will still speed up in order to beat the light. The yellow light isn't the problem, the mentality of the average driver is the problem.
one of the ones i notice people never know what to do is when traffics lights go out. so many people will just sit there waiting on others to make a move.
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People see the pedestrian lights with countdown timers in some intersections. Drivers dont see that and think 'I got 8 seconds left time to go into warp speed.' Most people will agree the extra warning is appreciated.