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.
Traffic lights
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DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 5 months 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
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 months 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
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What do you mean? If you entered intersection, you can compl… Right, America. Nevermind.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.
Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I did not expect a sick Starman reference today.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s almost the only thing I remember from the movie to be honest.
Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I remember this from Taxi also
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months 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.”
FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
I read this to my wife.
Her response was “Stop.”
“No honey, that would be the red light.”
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yellow means stop, unless you are going to fast to reasonably stop before the intersection
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
She’s right actually
MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah… the red light/green light game really messed up people’s understanding of what the yellow light is for.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yellow means stop, red means stop really hard
Orbituary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, but it literally doesn’t mean that. It just means “warning.”
ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 5 months ago
It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".
phcorcoran@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yep, same for the UK.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
uis@lemmy.world 5 months 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
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Wasnt this literally one of Christopher Lloyd’s bits on Taxi?
Duranie@midwest.social 5 months ago
ares35@kbin.social 5 months 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.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 5 months ago
What would you expect them to do? Go straight from red to green?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s what normally happens
geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Yes. That’s what happens in most countries
DasherPack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s what traffic lights do here in Spain. I don’t actually know if Red-yellow-green has any advantage
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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.
ares35@kbin.social 5 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In the UK, they go Green-Yellow-Red-Yellow-Green, which seems pretty sensible to me.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Imagine green-blinking green-yellow-red-red+yellow-green.
realitista@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Czechs do this too. Gives you time to menacingly dev your engine at the car next to you.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I’ve seen that in some German places as well
zout@kbin.social 5 months ago
All German places I've seen, this seems to be a national thing.
uis@lemmy.world 5 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.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This idiot doesn’t get driver license
mercano@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This joke needs to be delivered by Commander Kruge (from The Search for Spock), not Captain Picard.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
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Gladaed@feddit.de 5 months ago
Traffic lights always have the green light at the bottom to be inclusive to speeding people (and colorblinds)
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 5 months 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Except for some weird ones with it on the left