unless some asshole decides to stop in your lane before you.
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Cort@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you start slowing down sooner, there’s a higher chance that the light will turn green before you’re fully stopped. Then you can blast past the people stopped in the other lane.
zout@kbin.social 4 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Treating green lights as safe = RIP
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 months ago
where’s the fun in that. my 300000hp engine cant get to the stop light faster.
otacon239@feddit.de 4 months ago
If you drive manual, the pro move is to engine brake all the way down. If the light turns green, you’re always in gear and possibly even higher up in revs meaning you can quickly swap right back to the gas pedal. Feels cool every time it happens.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Newer automatics have manual overrides that you can do this with. It saves brake life too, which is nice.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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Just go close to the speed limit. Be safe.
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You could also argue that going fast means you have a chance to make a light before it goes green, so you increase your opportunity. If you dont catch the green you are only as bad as par.
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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Even better: learn the pattern of the traffic lights in your commute, and don’t slow down if you see it will turn green in less than two seconds.
The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’s how you t-bone the idiot who doesn’t stop at the red light
criitz@reddthat.com 4 months ago
The only way to avoid that would be to stop at every green light.
The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You’re right, but I think the number of people that run a just-turned-red light far far outnumber the people that just ignore the light altogether.