Yellow doesnt mean speed up, its means stop. If you drive like an asshole, call me whatever you want. I dont care what assholes think of me.
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I know the legal meaning of a yellow light varies from place to place, but the effective meaning of traffic lights is:
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Red: You shouldn't be in the intersection. You must not find yourself in the intersection, because other traffic/pedestrians/etc are doing so, and if you're in the intersection, you're creating a safety problem.
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Yellow: a Red is imminent. You should take whatever steps are safe to ensure that you will not be in the intersection when the light turns red. If that means you need to drive through to get clear, then if the path is clear, do so. If that means instead you need to stop and you can safely do so, do that.
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Green: you can go straight through; if you're turning in a legal direction, you can do so after safely yielding.
Yeah the only time you're not supposed to stop on yellow is if it comes on while you're too close to stop safely, it's still a stop signal, it's just the one that gives you a margin if you're already going. Also you should be preparing to stop at traffic lights anyway. If it stays green then great.
If I see you compromising public safety because you think you're above the rules we set in place to keep our communities safe, then I'm calling you worse things than thundertwat.
Yellow means stop if you can. It's not permission to drive recklessly in order to save yourself a minute of time.
Also, that red light camera over there has a hair trigger.
I'll never understand what part of driving a 2-ton metal machine makes people think you're an asshole for not doing it recklessly enough
I identify as a motherfucking thundertwat
The universal opposition to running yellow lights in these comments is hilariously awesome.
Makes me happy.
Absolutely no need to rush and drive recklessly to save 1-2 minutes on your commute.
Safety first. Seethe.
I'm in no rush to be anywhere, anytime. If my caution and safety are a detriment to your schedule, that's your problem. Maybe you should leave with more time to get wherever you're going safely instead of trying to rush the yellow lights and put everyone else's lives at risk.
This. Yellow means stop if you can (edit: if you can safely)
Yellow means stop if you can... do so safely.
If you're going to fast to make a normal turn at the light, you're too close to that intersection to stop safely, and you should proceed without braking.
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Yellow means it's turning red. Beyond that the safest way to treat it is how everyone else in the area treats it. It's like what I tell my stepson, it's better to be predictable than right. There's a lot of dead pedestrians and cyclists that had the right of way.
Agreed that predictability is the priority on the road. But people shouldn't be expecting everyone to rush through yellows with disregard either.
As a driver should be expecting it, but not upset when they don’t.
As a pedestrian you have to expect it, and be pleasantly surprised when they do.
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Yes! Just fucking go! I'm trying to get somewhere. And if you're one of the sibling comments talking about public safety, we can be safe and still make the light without speeding up. That's why we have yellow so people don't have to brake hard.
A surprising number of people here don't seem to understand that you can coast without being a dick. No one said to press the gas peddle. They said you might not need to brake.
If you think you made it, it's just because you couldn't see the stoplight turning red just as you entered the crossroads
Do you pay my insurance? No? Then get fucked.
Bah! You'll be fine, just speed to the next light.
How long does a stop light take? Three minutes? Look at your damn phone, that's all you're going to do when you get wherever you're going, anyway.
At least in my country and I suspect many others, yellow / amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so", effectively the same as a red light.
"Green means go, Yellow means go faster" was the mantra for our instructor.
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Yellow lights are for 3-6 seconds. That's also around the time it takes to come to a stop, depending on the speed of the vehicle. And you should give the vehicle ahead of you about 3 seconds of lead time. So if they have enough time to stop before reaching the intersection, you almost certainly wouldn't have had enough time to follow them through while it's still yellow unless they slammed their brakes or you are riding their ass.
Yellow means stop; but you don't get a fine in case you can't stop safely.
Red means stop; if you're in the intersection for even 1/100th of a second you can get fined.
Funnily enough you do get a fine over here, if the police catch you and it would've been safe to stop.
It's a whopping 10€.
If you plant your front bumper up their tailpipe and floor it, you can both make it.
You're welcome.
This isn’t the real crime. The real crime is going slow enough we both could have made it, then accelerating when you see it turn yellow so only you get through the light.
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Slowing early for a potential yellow-light and stopping as needed is the :3 of driving tho.
Yeah fuck safety!
Nah fuck you, most of you are gonna end up sitting on social media scrolling some shorts so think about that when you break the law so you can watch two more shorts while risking to kill people, and just so you know I can see you cursing me in the mirror and I'm cursing you too, ugly ass bitch.
I'd double-check your local traffic regulations; there are places where you can get written a ticket for running a yellow light.
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