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If true, they should be ashamed and THEN go to prison. That kills people.
by theonemind 8y ago
If true, they should be ashamed and THEN go to prison. That kills people.
- gambiting 8y agoFyi - light goes to yellow for 3 seconds before going to red in all of EU and people don't die because of it. I'd say 5 seconds in US is unusually long.
- detaro 8y agoI'd guess consistency is more important than the absolute value.
- crwalker 8y agoThe problem isn't the specific number, it's the intent behind changing the number and the decades of training the public on a different number.
- ska 8y agoI suspect the problem is more expectation than absolute value.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoReally? Doesn't it vary depending on, say, road speed or visibility? It does in California.
- glogla 8y agoIt does in EU also. There's a EU-wide lower-bound of 3 seconds, I guess gp mixed it up.
- pkaye 8y agoIt depends on size of intersection and speed limits. Are you saying all intersections in the EU are 3s?
- egorfine 8y agoI cannot remember seeing 5s yellow light ever (and I drove across almost all the EU). 5s yellow would certainly caught my attention in a "WTF is this" style as 5s is not just long, it's actually enormous and kinda defeats the purpose.