If you’re in Florida, it’s pretty simple. Green means go. Yellow means gun it. Red apparently means look both ways before you gun it.
Not just Florida, Ohio as well. I’ve went through pink lights saying I should have stopped and three people behind me went through as well… It’s becoming an epidemic where I’m at.
Pittsburgh PA you run into similar things, but mostly related to turning left. There are far too few left turn lanes. So when a light turns green the unofficial rule is that you let one (*maybe *two) cars through to turn left before oncoming traffic goes straight, because some day, you will want to turn left and/or not be stuck behind a mile of traffic because one car can’t turn left at the front of the line. Traffic would be 100% worse if there was no Pittsburgh Left. You can always tell when someone is a recent arrival or not planning to stick around for very long because they either don’t know the rule or refuse to follow it.
You go through if you can’t stop safely. If you have a second to debate on whether to go through or not, you probably could have stopped.
Simple rule I live by.
Those who hesitate, wait.
That doesn’t mean never hesitate, it means if you do, the decision has already been made, hit your brakes.
This is vehicle-dependent for me.
If I’m in the car and it turns yellow in time for me to stop normally and gently, I’ll stop. If I’m on my bike I will go through the yellow, in case the person behind me isnt paying attention.
Even when it looks like they do see you, best to imagine every driver is a homicidal maniac.
I just assume they are all oblivious and are using both brain cells to scroll facebook.
In Chicago, slam the brakes.
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My high school driving instructor gave me the tip that if I’m within the solid lines at the intersection and going at least the speed limit I can probably make it.
Going at least the speed limit
I think that driving instructor is up for early retirement.
He also taught me that going with the flow of traffic was safer than rigidly adhering to the speed limit.
Why the hell do stop lights go from green to red in 2 milliseconds? What even is the yellow for if it changes so fast?
In most places, you’ve got a few seconds to clear the intersection. In some places, they fiddle with the timings to let traffic cops write tickets.
Idk if i am very dumb but if you see a yellow light, does the person/car trying to cross you also see yellow or do they still see red?
They see red.
Is this a Mitch Hedberg joke???
Floor it.
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