Like 2:00 am and you are the only car in a isolated street.
2006-10-08 16:47:19 · 47 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I break them all the time.
I don't like the idea that I'm controlled by a computer some where telling me to do things that are completely un necessary.
2006-10-08 23:51:18 · answer #1 · answered by plutoniccatgirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you can see really well where traffic comes from the sides, it's actually fun to stop at a green light and wait for it to turn red and THEN go, on that rare night when it suits your mood. Or out in the country in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the day.
You save it for the right moment, the right intersection I guess.
I like the red lights. They're always better when no one's around. You sit there and the whole intersection is yours.
2006-10-08 19:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by roostershine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've seen some motorists just pass the red traffic light
without stopping after midnight at 1.30 am.
According to the traffic rules, it is an offence to pass through
the red light without stopping even if you're the only car in an
isolated street in the middle of the night.
As far as I'm concerned, I would stop at the red traffic light,
because I don't want to be caught on the camera for an
offence.
2006-10-08 22:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by steplow33 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Almost always, but sometimes I know a light, and I know it's just red for nothing when I'm going home from a friend's at 3am. So 99% of the time yes, but that one light where I know it's just red so that the employees who aren't at the business it's in front of can't make a left hand turn because it's 3 am and everybody's in bed, no.
2006-10-08 16:52:43 · answer #4 · answered by swordsdragonsanddietcoke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're supposed to. It's possible there's an emergency vehicle coming. (they can usually trigger the lights by remote) Or if there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk. Short of that: there's no realistic harm in doing so. You might catch the eye of a bored cop, and get a ticket for running the red though.
2006-10-08 18:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I heard awhile back. When car jackings were around. When late at night, and the only car. You can go through a red light to be safe. An the cops ignored it. Or so I heard.
2006-10-08 17:26:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where I live they have been putting up Cameras at stop lights. When you cross a red light. It will automatically take a pic of your license plate. You will get a ticket in the Mail also.
2006-10-09 18:43:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If everyone think in the same way that it is useless to stop for signal in the mid of the night, then one who crosses the signal is most vulnerable to accidents. If you have concern about other and also about your safety, the other will feel ashamed it jump the signal see nobody breaking the rules.
2006-10-10 13:40:51 · answer #8 · answered by I am rock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I come to a stop and look both ways... sometimes I go ahead, and sometimes the light turns green in that amount of time. I do this more with left turn arrow red lights than solid two way red lights. Legal, nope..... foolish, perhaps..... its sometimes referred to the "Newark rolling stop"
2006-10-08 16:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by Porterhouse 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah. a lot of traffic lights have cameras that work 24/7 at taking pictures of people running red lights.
2006-10-08 16:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋