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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Traffic lights always have the green light at the bottom to be inclusive to speeding people (and colorblinds)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

In Canada yellow means stop, unless it's too late to stop then you need to get through the intersection during the grace period before it turns red.

Does it mean something else in the USA?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

no, that is pretty much what it means in the USA. it is a heads up the light will be red in a moment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s the legal purpose of a yellow light, yes. However people have been getting worse and worse with actually following it. Now on green I always wait a few seconds for some yahoo to come flying through on the side street claiming he made it on yellow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No red light cameras in your parts? I get this happens, but if it's this frequent makes me wonder if there's ever any fines for it? Depending how late it is should be instant licence revokation and fine in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A couple decades ago, there was a scandal in, I think, Chicago. They used red light cameras but then kept cutting the timing of the yellow lights, turning it into a revenue generating exercise. People remember.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I did not expect a sick Starman reference today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's almost the only thing I remember from the movie to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I have a soft spot for Karen Allen but it's not in the top five John Carpenter films.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I remember this from Taxi also

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"There are four lights!"

"I'm sorry, that is incorrect. I'm afraid you've failed your driver's test and will not be issued a license to operate a motor vehicle at this time."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Tram lights:

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Wasn't this literally one of Christopher Lloyd's bits on Taxi?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yes!!!

Thank you for making me look out up! 😁

https://youtu.be/fVk-DpwzQok?si=msydlrEhqm7qCtuP

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, but it literally doesn't mean that. It just means "warning."

Edit: in most US jurisdictions, it means warning. TIL about Canada and UK rules. Good thing I never got pulled over there for that. Thankfully the UK has more roundabouts, too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not going to say about entire Europe, but in RUB countries yellow means stop* like red does.

*unless you are driving bus or few other edge cases

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

i remember visiting extended family back in, i think, the early 80s. down in alabama or something. their traffic lights went green>yellow>red, as expected. but then went red>yellow>green.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is normal in Europe too, and actually helps to clear up the traffic. You see red+yellow lights on, you put on first gear and prepare to start moving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

in many (maybe even 'most') american towns and cities, there would be too many drivers going on that yellow and not waiting for the green.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What would you expect them to do? Go straight from red to green?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

That's what normally happens

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yes. That's what happens in most countries

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what traffic lights do here in Spain. I don't actually know if Red-yellow-green has any advantage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's the part where you spin your tires to burn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the UK, they go Green-Yellow-Red-Yellow-Green, which seems pretty sensible to me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Czechs do this too. Gives you time to menacingly rev your engine at the car next to you.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I bet traffic lights are extremely triggering for Picard. The whole "there are four lights" thing. Plus one of the lights is green which probably reminds him of every borg device ever.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I read this to my wife.

Her response was "Stop."

"No honey, that would be the red light."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Yellow means stop, unless you are going to fast to reasonably stop before the intersection

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

She's right actually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah.. the red light/green light game really messed up people’s understanding of what the yellow light is for.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hope this idiot doesn't get driver license

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This joke needs to be delivered by Commander Kruge (from The Search for Spock), not Captain Picard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah, I see you're a Taxi fan as well.

Taxi

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