[ale] [OT] Cars and licensing... (Was: Re: Well, this does nothing for the reputation of Linux)

[Sparr]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com>wrote:

>  On 07/22/2013 03:29 PM, Sparr wrote:
>
> It's pretty straightforward. You say I should know when a malfunctioning
> traffic light is a four-way stop vs. a two-way-stop-with-two-way-caution. I
> say there is no way for me to know that, if I can only see a flashing red
> light.
>
>
> Actually, when you approach a flashing red light, you are to treat it as a
> stop sign.  If you do that, you will collect enough evidence through
> observation to fill in the rest.
>
>
No, I won't. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, observing cross
traffic stopping does NOT provide effective evidence that I am at a
four-way flashing-red, *especially* in Atlanta which is the weirdest
stop-for-flashing-yellow-lights city I've encountered.

If I am at a flashing red light and both directions of cross traffic have
stopped, is it "clear" for me to proceed? If I proceed in that situation,
and one of the people who was stopped at a flashing yellow also proceeds,
and we collide, who is at fault?
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