Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red

Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by aidenn0 on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:48PM (#21319250)

You're in good company with the flawed memory. I went to Purdue out-of-state and a native Hoosier told me that you had to clear the intersection before it was red. Everyone else in the vehicle backed him up on it too.

This not being the rule where I was from (Virginia), I stopped by the DMV and picked up the handbook to see what else might be different, only to find that the rule was essentially the same as in Virginia (must enter intersection before it turns red).

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Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by mokus on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:07PM (#21319714)

It’s funny the kinds of falsehoods that people collectively believe. In CA, I can think of two widespread false beliefs about traffic law from when I was younger (no idea if they are still widespread). One is that it is illegal to drive barefoot. Another is that it is illegal to change lanes in an intersection. That latter one I actually got pulled over for but when the officer went to write the ticket I guess they couldn’t find the vehicle code section for it (because it didn’t exist).

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Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by chillwaves on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:24PM (#21320119)

In most jurisdictions it's called "improper passing" and it is widely up to the discretion of the officer.

It's not explicitly illegal to change lanes in an intersection but it is often unsafe.

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