scott wrote:
> We (UK and Germany and most other countries I've been to) have just 
> solid amber to mean it's about to go red.  It's illegal to go through on 
> red and you will be fined (or photographed then fined!), so the amber is 
> needed to give people a chance to stop before it goes red.  Faster roads 
> have longer amber phases to avoid you needing to do an emergency stop in 
> fear of running a red.

Same here. Our traffic laws are set at the state level, but everywhere 
I've ever been, the technical is "Yellow means stop if it's safe to stop 
and you'll not be in the intersection. If it's red and you're in the 
interesection, you're risking a ticket."

In other words, if you're going slow enough, stop when it turns yellow 
even if you could have made it through on the yellow. It doesn't mean 
"this is your last chance to make it, so slam on the gas."

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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