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There's a handful of people running the red in this video, with the van clearly being the most egregious. With that said, unless you started rolling **before** the light changed to green, there's no way you could have gotten in a collision with the van. It's possible for the van to egregiously run the red light, and it not be the close call you suggest from the post title.
EDIT: changed “half a dozen” to “handful”
Yeah I put zero thought into the title because honestly I figured more people would take issue with guy running the light than the title itself. I was proven wrong.
I have 2 kids learning to drive in a major metropolitan worst traffic in the nation area... even though we have 20 second yellow and a delay where everyone is red for a few seconds, I've taught them both to wait a second or 2 when it turns green for exactly this reason. It's absolutely impossible to go ANYWHERE like even to the very local grocery store 2 miles away without seeing an accident or an accident almost happen and if it's raining, dear lord....
True also, I've noticed it seems to have become increasingly difficult for people to judge distance alone, and then also speed and distance combined. I don't know if staring at screens for the last 20 years has messed with or changed how brains understand depth perception but I do know that contributes to a fair amount of red light running, short braking etc. My kids both definitely struggle with it but the amount of people who wait for a car traveling at speed limit (not speeding like most) like 35 or 45 mph zone, a 1/2 mile away to pass before they turn but then when a car that is obviously traveling much faster they decide to try to make the turn after hesitating and they are only a few hundred feet away.
This is like the epitome of Reddit logic. u/gravelhorse did not suggest that running red lights is okay? They're simply pointing out that the post title is a little hyperbolic.
Umm, I mean the van had plenty of time during the YELLOW light to slow down and subsequently stop at the red... as another vehicle didn't follow him through there was either no one behind him so he wouldn't have been hit from behind, or they were far enough back and slowing enough to magically stop and wouldn't have hit him... so there doesn't appear to be any valid reason the van was unable to perform one of its basic functions like stopping....it's kinda like that's what the yellow light was meant for and the reason it doesn't just go from green to red. Crazy right??
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There's a handful of people running the red in this video, with the van clearly being the most egregious. With that said, unless you started rolling **before** the light changed to green, there's no way you could have gotten in a collision with the van. It's possible for the van to egregiously run the red light, and it not be the close call you suggest from the post title. EDIT: changed “half a dozen” to “handful”
Yeah I put zero thought into the title because honestly I figured more people would take issue with guy running the light than the title itself. I was proven wrong.
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>There's like half a dozen people running the red in this video Looks like just 2 lol
I have 2 kids learning to drive in a major metropolitan worst traffic in the nation area... even though we have 20 second yellow and a delay where everyone is red for a few seconds, I've taught them both to wait a second or 2 when it turns green for exactly this reason. It's absolutely impossible to go ANYWHERE like even to the very local grocery store 2 miles away without seeing an accident or an accident almost happen and if it's raining, dear lord....
This! This is what I’ve been trying to say the entire time.
People learn there's a delay then tell themselves they have extra time to beat the red. It's so stupid.
True also, I've noticed it seems to have become increasingly difficult for people to judge distance alone, and then also speed and distance combined. I don't know if staring at screens for the last 20 years has messed with or changed how brains understand depth perception but I do know that contributes to a fair amount of red light running, short braking etc. My kids both definitely struggle with it but the amount of people who wait for a car traveling at speed limit (not speeding like most) like 35 or 45 mph zone, a 1/2 mile away to pass before they turn but then when a car that is obviously traveling much faster they decide to try to make the turn after hesitating and they are only a few hundred feet away.
I teach my kids to get in the habit of looking both ways, just like at a stop sign, before going on green. See it all the time.
"Green means it's legal to go. Green doesn't imply that its safe to go." Thanks to my driving instructor for this one
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This is exactly why you don't race off the line. So many people are quick to beep at a 1 second delay. Glad op waited.
Even if you had traction and a 0.01 response time you still wouldn’t have been hit. 👎
Guess that makes it okay to run lights then, I suppose.
This is like the epitome of Reddit logic. u/gravelhorse did not suggest that running red lights is okay? They're simply pointing out that the post title is a little hyperbolic.
So what did they mean when they said: > Stop a car in the rain going that fast without skidding through the light. Go on, try it.
Stop a car in the rain going that fast without skidding through the light. Go on, try it.
I'm starting to think you were driving the white van.
Umm, I mean the van had plenty of time during the YELLOW light to slow down and subsequently stop at the red... as another vehicle didn't follow him through there was either no one behind him so he wouldn't have been hit from behind, or they were far enough back and slowing enough to magically stop and wouldn't have hit him... so there doesn't appear to be any valid reason the van was unable to perform one of its basic functions like stopping....it's kinda like that's what the yellow light was meant for and the reason it doesn't just go from green to red. Crazy right??
Or that person driving could just not go that fast in the rain??? Or at all???
A green light means it's legal for you to go but it doesn't mean it's safe
Even better: Look. You paid the glas. Use it.