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dquarasr
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Back in the mid-1980's IMSA ran a sports car race in downtown Miami. There was a stop/go light at pit exit to keep cars exiting the pits slowly from running into cars on the main straight at full chat. But there was this one racer who kept violating the signal, going on red.
When he was confronted by the race stewards, it came to light (pun intended) that someone mounted the stop/go light upside down, such that green was on the top and red on the bottom. Yup, you guessed it, the racer was color blind. (No, I don't remember his name.)
There are traffic signals in use in major US cities that do not follow that standard.
DaMN IT! It is past noon, I haven't eaten breakfast yet, and you go posting pictures like this! My stomach not only growled, it bit!
Hu
Craziest redlight I ever saw was where a road Teed into the main road on the side of a pretty steep hill. Things were pretty conventional until I noticed the sign, traffic had to yield to trucks coming down the hill even if you had the green light! I suspect the trucks couldn't stop when loaded so traffic control put up that weird sign.
Hu
I’m colorblind. The ones that get me are the horizontal lights. Usually my passengers start yelling pretty soon when they see one.
dquarasr
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Aren’t they mounted red, yellow, green left-to-right? (USA)
If you say so.
Just remember that it doesn't turn green after yellow. The light after the middle one means STOP
Grandpa "passed" peacefully in his sleep last Thursday. Unlike his passengers who died screaming in terror.
Some locations have two lights on at the same time, but I don't remember if it is red and yellow or yellow and green.
Have always wondered what that yellow one was for. Now I know.
A man was in a cab in Rome. The cab driver would come up to a red light, look both ways and speed through it. The passenger found this alarming and asked the cabby about it. "In Rome, the red light just means look both ways before going through it." "What does the green light mean then?" "It means look both ways to make sure someone is not running the red light and proceed." "What is the yellow light for then?" "Variety!"
Hu
I was in an Uber and the driver blew a red light. I said, "Dude, you just ran a red light!" He says, "No worries, my brother does it all the time."
The next block, he does it again. I'm like, Dude, ..." He cuts me off and says, "Relax, like I said, my brother does this every day."
Another block and he stops for a green light. I say, "WTF? It's green!" He calmly replies, "I know, but my brother gets off work around now and he goes home this way."
The next block, he does it again. I'm like, Dude, ..." He cuts me off and says, "Relax, like I said, my brother does this every day."
Another block and he stops for a green light. I say, "WTF? It's green!" He calmly replies, "I know, but my brother gets off work around now and he goes home this way."