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.
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.
I had two different instances of a yellow light.
I was approaching an intersection and someone made their left slowly in front of me causing me to slow down as I approached and I kept going cause it was turning yellow and could still make it and got honked like hell.
Next day I saw a light turning yellow well ahead of me so I applied the brake early because it's like a 70(km/h) to signal that I'm going to stop and then stopped before crossing. The person behind me didn't anticipate that and turned at the last second to just miss rear-ending me. My brake lights were active for a hell of a long time so I'm not sure what they were doing.
I say both of these stories because I hate driving in general....
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.
green means go ahead.... yellow means hold on.... and red means where tf did you get that banana?
That's the same everywhere
Here driver's ed taught
green = go red = stop Yellow = proceed with caution
Not that it's the rule I follow, but that's what gets drilled into kids heads.
The advent of red light cameras turned yellow into "Can I safely stop without being plowed by a jacked up SUV/Pickup?"
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
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.
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.
I don't get it. If both of you would have made it at a slower speed, how does accelerating mean only the front vehicle now does?
something like: "Both of them could have make it at 40km/h but the Huy in front was driving at 30 km/h and just accelerated at 60km/h when they noticed the yellow light and only them made it on time"
Implication is if they were going at the final speed they ended up at the whole time, both could have got through.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah fuck safety!
Nice try, Liza. Fuck your car in particular
I ride a motorcycle. I hate those who pass by me when I stop yellow
If you think you made it, it's just because you couldn't see the stoplight turning red just as you entered the crossroads
Safety first. Seethe.
I'd double-check your local traffic regulations; there are places where you can get written a ticket for running a yellow light.
I’d double-check your local traffic regulations; there are places where you can get written a ticket for running a yellow light.
Holy shit, then what's the difference in those places between a red light and a yellow light?
"you could have stopped but didn't" vs "you should have already been stopped but weren't"
Basically, when you come to a yellow light, there are two ways you can look at the situation: "can I safely stop before reaching the intersection?" or "can I make it through the intersection before the light turns red?" The idea behind "yellow running" regulations is that drivers should be asking themselves the first question, not the second.
With red, the context doesn't matter. You run a red light, you get fined. With yellow, the context does matter: you only get fined if you clearly could've come to a stop safely, but didn't.
The severity of the fine also differs (talking about Germany here). If you run a red light you get at least one "point", which is a semi-permanent mark on your record that will lead to more severe punishment if you rack up too many of them. If you endangered someone, caused an accident, or the light was red for more than a second, you also get your driver's license taken away for a month. You don't get any of that with a yellow light, and the monetary fine is also much lower.
If you plant your front bumper up their tailpipe and floor it, you can both make it.
You're welcome.
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.
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.
Slowing early for a potential yellow-light and stopping as needed is the :3 of driving tho.
I identify as a motherfucking thundertwat
Cunt is gender neutral.
The more time I spend on the internet after having been to the USA, the better I understand why so many cars over there have massive fucking dents in them.
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