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[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

Does the blinking yellow light allow drivers to turn onto pedestrians crossing with a green pedestrian light? Cause here that's the only way you can turn in many intersections and that's not exactly safer. You shouldn't put this responsibility on the drivers at all.

[-] Benj1B@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

In Australia, "blinking yelloe" means "drive with caution" - roadway may be used bey pedestrians, slower traffic may have merged to faster, the traffic lights normal function might be impeded. Just basically a catch all for "be careful".

Having acid that it's very rare that you'd find a blinking yellow on a turn across pedestrians - you'd get green arrow or light, pedestrians get green walk, and driver waits for pedestrians. It's not rocket science. You don't turn on red though.

Then again we still have thrse fellas so maybe dont listen to us : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_turn

[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 10 months ago

Normally blinking yellow just means "traffic light disabled, treat this as a normal intersection"

Turns are regulated by traffic lights with arrows, that's it. Although nowadays they try to replace as many traffic lights as possible with roundabouts.

[-] Buckshot@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

In the UK a blinking yellow means you can go if there's no pedestrians but you'll only ever get that at a pedestrian crossing on a straight road. Never an intersection. As in, a place where the only reason the light would ever change is a pedestrian pressed the button to request it. Usually then they'll go red for a few seconds, then blinking yellow to allow extra time for slower people to cross.

At intersections you might get green arrows to indicate you can go only in that direction. For example it might allow going straight but not turning because pedestrians are crossing the side road.

There's never a case where red means anything other than you must stop and I've never seen a case where both vehicles and pedestrians would get a green light for the same piece of road at the same time.

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Interesting, so blinking yellow obviously means the same everywhere but where these are placed varies a lot. In Greece I've never seen green for both cars and pedestrians either, but there are many cases where pedestrians get green and cars yellow for the same part of road (usually when cars turn right at intersections). From the answers I take it the original comment probably meant cars turning into the path of other cars, not people, which sounds a bit better.

[-] dwalin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes. Yellow blinking light (in Portugal) means you can advance with caution. If you kill someone, its your responsibility.

Edit: usually its on zones with low pedestrian traffic. On more busy zones its red/green to turn as normal

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