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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

Yellow doesn't meant "slow", it means "stop if you still reasonably can, otherwise go"

Sure, a lot of drivers interpret that as "go fast before it turns red". But "slow"? That doesn't make any sense

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

It's an Australian traffic light

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here

-GREEN: GO

-YELLOW: GO faster, but immediately hit the brakes hard as you can, if you get a feeling you don't make it.

-RED: Take a nap. After it turns green, be so late that only few cars manage to leave.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

India:

Green- Go

Yellow- Go

Red- Go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You just go slow with a car length between you, then the crossing traffic does the same and you join in perfect symmetry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Morocco most people stop at red but then they’ll drive down the wrong side of the road to jump the queue and put themselves so far over the line they can’t even see when the lights change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I like "left on red" countries where, on encountering a stop signal, you turn left, u-turn, turn left again, and carry on.

A popular manoeuvre in South East Asia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You have no idea how little that narrows it down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Malaysia checking in! Can confirm!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Its like that here in Colombia. Especially if you’re driving a motorcycle or scooter. Traffic laws are merely suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Red - psh..., don't worry about it, my cousin, he goes through reds all the time.

Green - stop, what if my cousin is coming from the side?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Game theory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Jeff Bridges taught me that red means stop, green means go, and yellow means go very fast. He was watching very closely.

(1984's Starman, just so I can feel older today.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Here in Egypt they very rarely exist, then it varies by town for the rare ones that do.

Most stoplights follow the second picture, but for my area of Giza it's

Go

Go

Go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Green is more like proceed with caution. At least thats how it feels lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No cop, no stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What part of Florida are you in?? Yeah, we speed up for the yellow, but I've seen someone run a red like that here at most maybe once every 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

South Florida. I’d say about three people run every red right after it changes from yellow. Zero enforcement. I’ve seen people do it in front of cops. Since Covid it seems like nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Definitely the case in Vietnam