Submitted 1 week ago by GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
Kind of a shower thought but a question.
If you’re driving and stop at a red light, it cycles thru green and back to red, and you still have to wait, do you think that’s 1 stop or 2 stops or something in between?
It depends on what the purpose of classifying it is. If we’re talking about what the car actually did, I’d probably call it 2 stops. If we’re talking about “how many stops are there between point A and point B?”, it’s 1 stop.
Deoends on how far back from the intersection I was before getting the second light.
If it’s like the bullshit one right at the corner where I live, it’s 2 sometimes 3 stops when it only is green long enough for 2 maybe 3 vehicles to proceed before going back to red.
If it’s so far away I can’t see it, it’s one stop.
2 stops.
Do you use the brake pedal twice? 2 stops.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You mean if there was enough traffic ahead of you at the lights that by the time you reached them they’d gone red again? In that scenario you still pulled forwards and then had to stop again, so I’d consider it two stops.
It’s only one stop if you stopped once and then didn’t move at all between one red light and the next (in which case I’d ask why).
meco03211@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This would be my take with the only caveat being if the green light was exceedingly short due to emergency vehicles. Rather than saying that’s 2 stops I’d mention the emergency vehicles and they messed with the timing.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ah, I didn’t consider that! It’s not a thing in the UK.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Special case exemption.