In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns

Re:In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from ... by wccrawford on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:47PM (#29465465)

Stop lights will never be smart enough to tell you when you can "just go" until they're good enough to drive the cars for you, and then that choice will be taken from you anyhow.

Drivers must always pay attention to what's going on around them. Trying to simplify their decisions will just end up with more people getting hurt as drivers claim they had the right because the light said so.

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Re:In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from ... by interstice on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:54PM (#29465565)

Other countries have a green arrow and here we also have a system where the green arrow goes blank when pedestrians are allowed to cross aka ‘give way’.

Not that it stops pedestrians crossing whenever they like or people running reds, but it does take some of the stress out of driving.

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Re:In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from ... by Kim_Bruning on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:09PM (#29465746)

Here's a link to some traffic light systems that you can trust most of the time. But nothing is perfect, so you're still required to pay attention yourself too, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbVWXzL4-4

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Re:In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from ... by abfan1127 on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:53PM (#29465549)

simplifying decisions can also lead to extremely inefficient traffic patterns.

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