I’ve started thanking traffic lights when they’re green and I swear I’m getting more green lights. The machine spirit likes to be appreciated.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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Drive slower and you only get a couple, in my experience
But yeah, staying on the good side of the road gods is always in your favor.
Sadly, my problem is rarely driving too fast, but usually well under the speed limit for which the lights are timed.
Yeah my home town has a street slated for 25 but if you roll 22 you save gas and coast up as they change and people race to the next one
In my town they’d do 20 and then slowly coast to a stop at every light.
To be fair they’re all like 80 and on who knows what medication. I’ve seen a few with oxygen tubes in their noses while behind the wheel.
That tracks, I drive like I’m 85 so I’d just hop in line
Hey Gladys, let me hit your O2
Good design. I have to go 20km/h over speed limit to hit green light on every intersection in my town. I’m getting punished for going the speed limit.
Highly depends on how they are coded, in my city there are a lot of traffic lights where you have to aggressively accelerate and still barely make green on the next one if you follow the speed limit. Driving 10kph above the limit you will make the green light easily
I’ve definitely seen a share of those too. More or less my point wasn’t that they’re always going to lean slow, but that they’re not often coded for the speed limits posted.
Praise the Omnissiah!
Wouldn't they be blue? 🤔
You’re going too fast at that point
So, how fast would you have to go to get green?
Ok never mind I looked it up. 197,640,000 km/hr
According to: https://sciencenotes.org/fast-go-make-red-light-look-green-relativistic-doppler-effect/
You would probably be out of frame by the time the speeding camera takes the picture, if it triggered at all xD
The preceding shockwave would annihilate it first anyway.
Yeah, you've overshot and ended up in Japan.
Edit: Explanation: the Japanese word for "green light", "aoshingou", means "blue light" even though their lights are green too.
Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just "ao" in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when "midori" started becoming more popular to refer to green.
As for why the traffic light is still called "blue" despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes "roses are red, violets are blue..." when violets are violet.
Why do not have in the first sentence?
