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Ideas · 2026-05-20 · 55 min · 9,001 words

Why yellow traffic lights were designed to be ambiguous

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As people start to anticipate longer yellows, some people will have more tendency to speed up to get through them because they know they're longer, and you have cautious drivers that'll still try and break and you get into this issue of causing a cautious driver to stop too early and a driver who's anticipating a longer amber to go through it. So I think they have more time. Yeah, it g it gets complicated. Yeah. Welcome to Ideas.

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