Running a red light will get you an invite by a local police officer to pull over and get a ticket. It probably is not the way you wanted to start or end your day.
The red in a traffic light is very visible to all drivers. A few of the are blurred by the sun and for a moment a driver can be blinded by the sun when entering a intersection. Seeing the intersection from a distance will give you an idea if the lights are changing when you can’t see it clearly up close.
When designing the lights the designer takes into consideration factors that affect it from the environment. To help block the effects of the sun shinning on the light the backdrop is coated in black to allow the light to be seen in bright sunlight. To make things uniform the lights are also assembled in the same order.
The colors of the lights are the same on all standard models. A good reason for this is to see the light in the same place all the time for those that are color blind and drive an also for those that can’t tell the light color by the sun.
In some states special lights are erected for a number of different reasons and the purchase of these light is on an incident basis. There are also only 3 colors that are used and they are red, green and yellow. White used to be available to order and in special orders blue is available but only as a requested item.
It is important to keep in mind that coming to an intersection the possibility of the light turning another color soon will happen. The natural or normal time at a stop light is around 1 minute. In some cased depending on traffic it could be a little longer. The time at a light always seems longer and shorter for others you are watching.
The light change can catch you in the middle of the intersection when it starts to change. According to DPS handbook, if you are already in the intersection then continue forward as long as on obstructions are blocking the intersection. Otherwise if you are approaching a light, then you are suppose to be prepared to stop if the light starts to change.
If you have ridden the roads as a driver or passenger you will see someone hurry or speed up to get through a light that has already started to turn red. There are those that continue on and hit the intersection as the light is red. This would be considered running a red light. A judgment call by a police officer would be involved if a ticket is in question. Today red light monitors are popping up more and more and they don’t care if you think you were close enough to go on the red light change. If its red its red and they will send you a ticket for running a red light.
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