Current Events > Should running red lights when no one is around be legal?

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This is really one of those situations where we're honoring laws for the sake of honoring laws rather than looking at the net impact to society. If you're stopped at a red light and no one is around, what harm is there in running it? The only thing it's doing is wasting someone's time that they don't really have to waste.
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Well, if no one is around, how would you get in trouble for it?
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My main issue with this is that in certain situations, you can't see if someone is approaching the intersection at the same time as you at 55 mph, and there's a real danger of crashing in that scenario.
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After a certain time, it should be a flashing red.
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No, but I do think they should just change to flashing red instead of solid red during slow times of the day.
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Garioshi posted...

My main issue with this is that in certain situations, you can't see if someone is approaching the intersection at the same time as you at 55 mph, and there's a real danger of crashing in that scenario.

This. Doing so when you're in a towne center at 2:30 and just got out of Denny's celebrating somebody's birthday? The only people on the road are delivery truck drivers and people heading home, meaning people are heading directly towards or away from the towne center. But in that case the lights are probably already set to flashing red meaning at your own peril.

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't. You make this legal and people will just run right through as if it were a green light, and that's dangerous.
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mew4ever posted...

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't.

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mustachedmystic posted...

mew4ever posted...

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't.

I mean, that means someone was around then, right? So that's still illegal.
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if you treat it like a stop sign, then you shouldn't get in trouble for doing things safely. Also, intersections with bad visibility can get signs saying not to go until green. (PA has these already for intersections where right on red turns are dangerous. I'm sure it could be expanded to include straight and left on red turns, too)
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Nope, laws like this need to be firm.
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3:30 in the morning with not a soul in sight
We sat four deep at a traffic light
Talking about how dumb and brainwashed some of our brothers and sisters are
While we waited for a green light to tell us when to go
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I once had to wait at a red light for about 5 minutes at 2AM, and not a single car went by.

So yes, in circumstances like this, I think it should be okay to run a red light.
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If you're at a red light for 5 minutes and no one is around then sure, go for it. I've done it before in front of police because the damn light wouldn't change. He didn't give a shit.
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mew4ever posted...

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't. You make this legal and people will just run right through as if it were a green light, and that's dangerous.

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In Atlanta, a lot of the roads after a certain time, I believe it was between 2am til 5am, most traffic lights were set to blink yellow disabling the standard green, yellow, red traffic light, which means you treat it as a stop sign. You still stop, and then proceed ahead as you would a normal stop sign. I think this should be the case everywhere, smaller towns, have it run from like 11pm or midnight til 5 or 6 in the morning depending on traffic patterns.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

mew4ever posted...

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't. You make this legal and people will just run right through as if it were a green light, and that's dangerous.

Again, that's still illegal.
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REMercsChamp posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

mew4ever posted...

Nah. There are situations where people will think they're in the clear but actually aren't. You make this legal and people will just run right through as if it were a green light, and that's dangerous.

Again, that's still illegal.

Around here a flashing red= green anyway and that's where the danger comes from
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I don't trust idiots out there to make this decision for themselves. If it's solid red then you stop
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Should drunk driving be legalized if you never hit anyone and no one notices?
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i always stop even if there is nobody around, but if it's safe and there is no traffic, i still proceed.

the cameras here aren't real

GiftedACIII posted...

Should drunk driving be legalized if you never hit anyone and no one notices?

Shut up dude
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REMercsChamp posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Should drunk driving be legalized if you never hit anyone and no one notices?

Shut up dude

don't know why you're actually responding in the first place

There are few things I trust less than other drivers, so no.
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Seen plenty of crashes caused by people blowing lights when they thought nobody was around.
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smoliske posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Should drunk driving be legalized if you never hit anyone and no one notices?

Shut up dude

don't know why you're actually responding in the first place

lol it's literally the same thing as TC's question. Why are you taking this so seriously
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GiftedACIII posted...

smoliske posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Should drunk driving be legalized if you never hit anyone and no one notices?

Shut up dude

don't know why you're actually responding in the first place

lol it's literally the same thing as TC's question. Why are you taking this so seriously

Leave.
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