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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨risa@startrek.website⁩

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  • CCF_100@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Gladaed@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Traffic lights always have the green light at the bottom to be inclusive to speeding people (and colorblinds)

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      • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Except for some weird ones with it on the left

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  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      no, that is pretty much what it means in the USA. it is a heads up the light will be red in a moment

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No red light cameras in your parts? I get this happens, but if it’s this frequent makes me wonder if there’s ever any fines for it? Depending how late it is should be instant licence revokation and fine in my opinion.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you mean? If you entered intersection, you can compl… Right, America. Nevermind.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.

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    • Spendrill@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did not expect a sick Starman reference today.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s almost the only thing I remember from the movie to be honest.

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      • Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I remember this from Taxi also

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “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.”

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      White is rare one

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tram lights:

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  • FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I read this to my wife.

    Her response was “Stop.”

    “No honey, that would be the red light.”

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yellow means stop, unless you are going to fast to reasonably stop before the intersection

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    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She’s right actually

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    • MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah… the red light/green light game really messed up people’s understanding of what the yellow light is for.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yellow means stop, red means stop really hard

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  • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but it literally doesn’t mean that. It just means “warning.”

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    • ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".

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    • phcorcoran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep, same for the UK.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Same in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wasnt this literally one of Christopher Lloyd’s bits on Taxi?

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    • Duranie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes!!!

      Thank you for making me look out up! 😁

      youtu.be/fVk-DpwzQok?si=msydlrEhqm7qCtuP

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what normally happens

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      • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes. That’s what happens in most countries

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      • DasherPack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Purple.

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen that in some German places as well

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      • zout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bet traffic lights are extremely triggering. The whole “there are four lights” thing. Plus one of the lights is green which probably reminds him of every borg device ever.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      4 lights

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This idiot doesn’t get driver license

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  • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This joke needs to be delivered by Commander Kruge (from The Search for Spock), not Captain Picard.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, I see you’re an Andy Kaufman fan as well.

    Taxi

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