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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/22/2013 01:33 PM, Sparr wrote:<br>
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<div>A person should know ... when a malfunctioning
traffic light is a four-way stop vs. a
two-way-stop-with-two-way-caution</div>
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<div>I'm reading this from the point of view of a person
approaching a flashing red light. How am I to know whether
cross traffic has flashing red or flashing yellow?</div>
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I'm afraid I don't understand the question.<br>
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There are two allowed "default" configurations for traffic control
lights that I am aware of: 2-way and all-way stop.<br>
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A two-way stop light in failure mode flashes yellow in one
direction, red in the other. An all-way stop light in failure mode
flashes red in all directions.<br>
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Those approaching the flashing red must stop, and go only when
clear, as per the legal definition. If there are no cars
approaching the intersection, or there are other cars at the
intersection and they are following all-way-stop rules, then it is
clear. If a car is approaching the intersection, you are to hold
until the approaching car has either stopped or it is again clear.<br>
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Complex intersections are almost always all-way stops (3 or more
streets, or two streets that are each major streets). Otherwise,
generally, the major street gets the flashing yellow and the
capillary gets the flashing red.<br>
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As a prime example: all the lights on Covington Highway from I-285
to Lithonia Industrial road have a fallback mode that features
yellow to CH and red to the crossing streets, except one or two
places where it has to be an all-way stop lest all hell break
loose. (Sad, that they've failed enough that I know this. I came
down one night and all the lights were in failure-mode.)<br>
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Most people here stop for the yellows. I've never seen that happen
anywhere else to date, and for the majority of my life I've lived
elsewhere... :-)<br>
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— Mike<br>
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