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Your 15 yards from the Traffic lights and it just goes amber,what do you do?

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  • #32
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    What's a yard??
    I wouldn't know if that was a meter or 10 meters.


  • #33
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Everybody realises that amber means stop unless it's not safe yeah?


  • #34
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Check for cops, then floor it


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    demanufactured wrote: »
    What's a yard??
    .

    It's a place out the back where you store your bins.


  • #36
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    demanufactured wrote: »
    What's a yard??
    I wouldn't know if that was a meter or 10 meters.
    9/10 of a metre.

    15 yards is 135/150 of 15 metres.

    Simple.


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  • #37
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Even worse are the people who SLAM on the brakes when the light goes amber and they're about 5 meters from the junction, and then end up with 3/4 of their car over the line.


  • #38
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Cork24 wrote: »
    Throw it into 2nd Gear and Hit the Rpm over 3000 and floor it

    3000rpm?

    Either thats a diesel, or its a bloody container ship.


  • #39
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Plazaman wrote: »
    In 5 - 10 years time if the trend keeps going, traffic lights will mean nothing and it will be every driver for themselves.


    Because people weren't breaking red lights 5 - 10 years ago?


  • #40
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    black francis wrote: »
    Because people weren't breaking red lights 5 - 10 years ago?

    Yes I should have put the proviso on it that this is in my own driving experience of 22+ years. I have always seen people break red lights but not as frequently as now. That's what I'm saying its a growing trend that I think is getting worse in my neck of the woods.

    Having said that let Google be your friend and see the amount of car crashs around the world where a red light has been ran/run/broken.


  • #41
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    black francis wrote: »
    Because people weren't breaking red lights 5 - 10 years ago?
    Plazaman wrote: »
    Yes I should have put the proviso on it that this is in my own driving experience of 22+ years. I have always seen people break red lights but not as frequently as now. That's what I'm saying its a growing trend that I think is getting worse in my neck of the woods.

    Having said that let Google be your friend and see the amount of car crashs around the world where a red light has been ran/run/broken.

    I have been driving in Dublin for 12 years and would agree that it is much more prevalent now in my experience than ever before. As a pedestrian I won't even cross at a green man any more without checking for the feckers who think red means 'floor it, sure the pedestrians will have to wait' :rolleyes:


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  • #42
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    depends on what Im driving!


  • #43
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    miamee wrote: »
    I have been driving in Dublin for 12 years and would agree that it is much more prevalent now in my experience than ever before. As a pedestrian I won't even cross at a green man any more without checking for the feckers who think red means 'floor it, sure the pedestrians will have to wait' :rolleyes:


    Possibly more prevalent because of higher traffic volumes and a greater number of signalised junctions.

    Your assumption that people are more likely to break red lights now compared to years ago does not have any scientific backing.


  • #44
    miamee
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    black francis wrote: »
    Possibly more prevalent because of higher traffic volumes and a greater number of signalised junctions.

    Your assumption that people are more likely to break red lights now compared to years ago does not have any scientific backing.

    Neither does your assumption that they are not more likely to :) I did say it was based on my own experience, nothing else.


  • #45
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Amber means 'stop if it's safe to do so'. So I usually drive through them.

    Depends on the lights as well, if I know the lights will go green again fairly quick, then I'll stop.


  • #46
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Depends entirely on whether I'm trying to pass a theory / practical driving test, or I'm actually trying to get somewhere I need to be ;)


  • #47
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    I feel soooo many compo claims coming along for being rammed in the back when I stop for an amber light


  • #48
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    It's a well known rule: red means stop, green means go, amber means go faster.


  • #49
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Pidal to the Mital


  • #50
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    miamee wrote: »
    Neither does your assumption that they are not more likely to :) I did say it was based on my own experience, nothing else.

    I don't believe I ever said that.


  • #51
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Check my mirror.
    If someone is too close to my liking i floor it.
    It here is no one or they keep a safe distance i ll stop.


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  • #52
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Depends on speed im traveling towards the light.


  • #53
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Some intersections in Australia have red light cameras. If that was implemented over here I can see it changing motorists' attitude to breaking lights


  • #54
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    ...are the traffic lights in front or behind me?? ;)


  • #55
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    If I was an ordinary Joe soap then I would stop. If I was a judge, an international rugby player, or a well known RTE personality then I would floor it safe in the knowledge that I am immune from prosecution thanks to Garda "discretion".


  • #56
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    is that the Whole 15 yards?


  • #57
    Grian1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Grian1


    Drive as fast possible until I see the Gardaí and slam it down!


  • #58
    opti0nal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭opti0nal


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Amber means 'stop if it's safe to do so'. So I usually drive through them..
    Amber means stop unless it's unsafe to do so, for example because you're speeding.


  • #59
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Only one right answer so far. The correct thing to do is to check your mirror.


  • #60
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,323 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I just sit there because I cant drive Im usually a passenger.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Some intersections in Australia have red light cameras. If that was implemented over here I can see it changing motorists' attitude to breaking lights
    There are three that I know of in Dublin already.


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