I dont know how the traffic lights are solved in rest of Europe but in my country ( my town ),traffic light when finishing being green light,blink three times to warn driver that green light period is over soon or on some trafic lights we even had a little digital timers that shows drivers how much seconds left before green light ends.I'm all for installing barriers like the ones on railway crossings, that start to come down immediately after the lights turn yellow and only go up after the green light. After paying for a few damaged barriers, their own damages and after being rearended a few times, maybe they'll learn.
We are not advanced at all ( I live in Serbia, only candidate for EU union ),and maybe I wrote wrong, not yellow light flashing befire green, green light flashing three times before turn to yellow and after that red light.Our traffic lights are not so "advanced". They don't even have that "yellow flashing before green" feature that I see in the UK and other European countries. The only major change they did in recent years was reducing the time the yellow is on (now it's only 4 secs in general), when the "stop on yellow" rule became mandatory.
I dont know how the traffic lights are solved in rest of Europe but in my country ( my town ),traffic light when finishing being green light,blink three times to warn driver that green light period is over soon or on some trafic lights we even had a little digital timers that shows drivers how much seconds left before green light ends.
...it's very advanced, by Portuguese standards.(...) green light flashing three times before turn to yellow and after that red light.
That law probably already existed with those terms, only wasn't applied without any tolerance. In Portugal the law is the same as over there but since it's only a light infraction if you're going up to a certain excess above the speed limit, the authorities usually let it go.One law I also hate very much ( its a new one in my country ) which no tolerance in speed limit,for example, before we have a 10% tolerance, if speed limit is 60km/h we could drive at 66km/h speed without ticket or being pulled over. Now if we drive only 1km/h over the speed limit we got pulled over and get a ticket. I think there isnt similar lae in world.
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I've seen some of those here but the countdown is usually to inform pedestrians when their light is going to turn red but the green light for traffic doesn't come on immediately after the countdown reaches zero.they have large LED countdown timers on major intersection traffic lights in China, it's a great system
I've seen some of those here but the countdown is usually to inform pedestrians when their light is going to turn red but the green light for traffic doesn't come on immediately after the countdown reaches zero.
That seems like an idea that sould become standardized. However, I wonder if it would have any impact on reducing the number of red light runners we've been seeing increasing day by day in lots of countries. I mean, if those drivers can't be bothered to stop for a red light or wait for it to turn green, what makes us think they would care about knowing how long it'll take for the lights to change?these are massive numbers above the road for all three colour lights so you can see how long you have until the light changes, saves a lot of frustration sitting at lights knowing how long you need to wait, or when approaching the lights how long you have before they will change to know if you will make it in time or not, takes away all the guesswork
That seems like an idea that sould become standardized. However, I wonder if it would have any impact on reducing the number of red light runners we've been seeing increasing day by day in lots of countries. I mean, if those drivers can't be bothered to stop for a red light or wait for it to turn green, what makes us think they would care about knowing how long it'll take for the lights to change?
No he's not being confused,because he's driving a Merc and he have money, so he can solve any issue with it.The first video has red light on the lower level but has bright green on the tall posts.
Confusing. Maybe he looked at the green.
Hahaha, those are street lights!The first video has red light on the lower level but has bright green on the tall posts.
I can personally attest to that as I was once the lucky 'lottery winner' by virtue of living further from VA than any other of the 15 or 20 cars doing exactly the same speed - LEO even said as much (the further away you live the less likely you are to fight the ticket). VA is now on my list of places to avoid if there is any way to do so....Do NOT expect that...in the State of VA if you have out-of-state plates ...