a friend of mine is colourblind and he takes the long way to work so to avoid the traffic lights if i'm ever in his car and we come across a set of traffic lights i bail out as i don't wan't to be involved in a road traffic accident .in your driving test there is no questions involving identifying colours is there ?i never took my test so i don't know
i drive a 3 wheeler which you only needed to have a bike licence years ago
2007-12-05 14:28:03 · 7 answers · asked by daz r 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Most color blind people handle traffic lights quite well. The red light is on top, the yellow in the middle..and green is on bottom. So they don't really need to know the exact color...just be able to distinguish which of the three lights is lit.
From your spelling of "colour", I'm assuming you're in either Canada, Australia, England (or some other part of the UK)...so I don't know if the light arrangement is the same.
2007-12-05 14:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not usually, because traffic lights are specifically designed so that the different coloured lights appear in the same order/position on all traffic lights.
I have a friend who prevented one of his colour-blind (red/green colour-blindness) friends from going through a stop sign once by stomping on the brake from the passenger seat - the trees behind the stop sign made it virtually invisible to the driver!
2007-12-05 22:32:09 · answer #2 · answered by maddog27271 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am color blind.
There is a reason the red is on top followed yellow and green.
If the light is sidewards its is red yellow green left the right.
If your friend is unable to see which light is on he should not be driving.
2007-12-05 22:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by I am ready 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a color blind friend who memorizes the position of each color of traffic lights, so assuming the position of each color light is the same, he is probably a safe driver.
2007-12-05 22:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by mouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well unless they dont know that red is ALWAYS ON the TOP and green is always on the bottom. So they pay attentinon to which light is lit up. if the top one is, they stop. if the bottom one is, they go. this is universal.
2007-12-05 22:32:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just because he cant see colors doesnt mean he cant see wich light is on. all he has to know is wich order the lights are in
2007-12-05 22:33:52 · answer #6 · answered by paul_holmberg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lights are in a certain order (for instance green on top, yellow in the middle, red on bottom) so that even color blined people know which color it is
2007-12-05 22:32:07 · answer #7 · answered by shopacholic2000 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋