Comment on Traffic lights

ares35@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what normally happens

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  • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. That’s what happens in most countries

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    • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So they just go straight to green without any warning?

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      • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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      • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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  • DasherPack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Purple.

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    • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Green!!

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a clear difference though. Yellow = no-go, yellow+red = prepare to go

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’d be running a red light

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine green-blinking green-yellow-red-red+yellow-green.

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen that in some German places as well

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  • zout@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All German places I've seen, this seems to be a national thing.

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    • 1stq@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @zout No. Green, Yellow, Red, Red+Yellow, Green...
      There. Are. Four. Phases.
      After Yellow always comes Red. (At least in Germany)

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      • zout@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never noticed this, will look out for this next time I cross the border.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In some biggest country traffic lights FSM looks like this: red->red+yellow->green->blinking green->yellow->red, and can transition to blinking yellow from any state.

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