# Do you know how traffic lights work... **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-know-how-traffic-lights-work/17475 **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive **Created:** [September 14, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-know-how-traffic-lights-work/17475 "2006-09-14T12:52:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 42
### Author: ![duck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/duck/32/7183_2.png) [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck) #### Post date: [September 15, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-know-how-traffic-lights-work/17475/42 "2006-09-15T11:15:37Z")
> [@JCuz](#): > > I see you have been to New York City, they obey almost no rules of the road, but in another sense they have some of the best driver perceptions and reflexes compared to other places 50 cent got arrested in manhattan the other day for unsafe lane change in his chrome lambo, yet when i got hit and run by a taxi (at a stoplight) who cut across 3 lanes, including a bus lane to get away, no one stopped him. nyc/long island don’t have sensors in the lights… not sure if we’re better off. usually doesn’t hurt to wait. but yes we have great reflexes, we are taught that if you see an opening just go, don’t wait, otherwise you’ll never get over and the other car(s) will make room for you. clearly this isn’t taught in drivers ed though. long island does have ridiculously long yellow lights though. nonetheless, we still have old people and idiot girls on their cell phones in their luxury cars who feel they can take up 3 lanes to turn, don’t need to signal or stop at lights. :rant: --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-know-how-traffic-lights-work/17475)._