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Traffic lights always have the green light at the bottom to be inclusive to speeding people (and colorblinds)
I'm red green colorblind and never had an issue with the traffic lights colors.
I have had days where the sun was so bright i could barely make out what light was on.
Except for some weird ones with it on the left
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?
no, that is pretty much what it means in the USA. it is a heads up the light will be red in a moment
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
I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.
I did not expect a sick Starman reference today.
It's almost the only thing I remember from the movie to be honest.
I have a soft spot for Karen Allen but it's not in the top five John Carpenter films.
I remember this from Taxi also
"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."
Are you driving a tram?
Wasnt this literally one of Christopher Lloyd's bits on Taxi?
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.
What would you expect them to do? Go straight from red to green?
That's what normally happens
Yes. That's what happens in most countries
So they just go straight to green without any warning?
Why would you need a warning? It's not a race. In fact, that's probably part of the reasoning of not having a yellow before changing to green
So you can get in gear, do observations and be ready to move when the light turns green.
More or less. If you're paying attention to what's going on around you you'll notice other traffic stop before your light turns green. There's also typically a second or two where all lights are red before one turns green to make sure the intersection is clear.
Purple.
Green!!
That's what traffic lights do here in Spain. I don't actually know if Red-yellow-green has any advantage
That's the part where you spin your tires to burn
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.
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.
There's a clear difference though. Yellow = no-go, yellow+red = prepare to go
They'd be running a red light
In the UK, they go Green-Yellow-Red-Yellow-Green, which seems pretty sensible to me.
Czechs do this too. Gives you time to menacingly rev your engine at the car next to you.
I've seen that in some German places as well
All German places I've seen, this seems to be a national thing.
@zout No. Green, Yellow, Red, Red+Yellow, Green...
There. Are. Four. Phases.
After Yellow always comes Red. (At least in Germany)
Never noticed this, will look out for this next time I cross the border.
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.
I read this to my wife.
Her response was "Stop."
"No honey, that would be the red light."
Yellow means stop, unless you are going to fast to reasonably stop before the intersection
She's right actually
Yeah.. the red light/green light game really messed up people’s understanding of what the yellow light is for.
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.
It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".
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