I've played around in cities skylines with this concept. If you take one direction and elevate it, you can eliminate the stop lights altogether. Works well in game, but the never-crash physics stop me from thinking it would work in real life.

Ten percent Devil's advocate here and ninety percent real: I'd be interested in the opposite of this. Driving in town (especially here in Thailand where drivers are completely insane, but really anywhere) annoys me / raises my blood pressure. But highway roadtrips are actually rather fun, nice scenery and fun roads. So a whole lot of the time, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd take the highway bits and let the auto-drive handle traffic and stop lights.

The progress shown here is impressive, but overall I think that things will only get really useful when the car can handle as much (or as little) of the drive as you want it to, all the way on up to driving 100% of the way from driveway to parking at the destination.

For all I know there were a bunch of pedestrians run over there recently and they're trying to respond to it but then again, I don't know, install a fucking stop light maybe?

I'm a cyclist in NYC, and I do a little o' both. I break the traffic laws when I deem it safer or more convenient for everybody that I do so. I do it to get myself out of the way. And on my way.
Obviously not paying attention at all to stop lights is just dumb, you can't just mosey into cross traffic without looking, but I do agree with Yogi that the usual traffic laws shouldn't apply to bikes. Fortunately, this seems to be the de facto state of affairs in my city.

A road system entirely populated by self-driving cars wouldn't need stop lights or speed limits. Intersections would just "Work" on a yield-to-demand basis. If you have 75% more vehicles going East-West than North South, the intersection timing would adjust to letting 3x as many cars through every switch one way than the other.

I think you're all full of shit. In Seattle cyclists are everywhere, they don't pay attention to stop signs or stop lights and it seems to work just fine.

I think the best idea is still banning cars from city centers and only using trolleys or bicycles.

If I'm being honest here, I don't care what you guys think, this comment section is for me not you.

No stop lights.

I want a time machine.

CA lane-splitting rider here. I'm glad it is legal, and I'm glad I have the opportunity to decide whether and when I want to split lanes. If I feel a section of road will be unsafe, because of an often congested on-ramp for example, I can safely re-enter a lane and be a part of traffic. However in very congested/stand-still traffic, such as rush-hour or stop lights, I will gladly relinquish my spot in a lane and drive at a safe speed between traffic until I wish to or feel the need to reenter. I'm not saying it's safer in all situations, a la this video, but the choice should be there.

Anecdotal evidence from my experiences; I've been nearly cut-off more times while in a lane than between lanes. Of course I ride in a lane more often so it's not really a balanced comparison :]

End of the day; it should be up to the rider. It has to do with self responsibility, awareness of the risks involved and how to handle them.

(btw, I hate that they bring up asia....come of those countries don't even driver license requirements)

I just like how it all comes back around.

Some guy sitting at a stop light is startled and confused over some Deja-vu scenario he is going through. She is there to witness it, annoyed, and unwittingly falls into the same schism, as she is set on a similar path.

Only this time, the guy having the original hallucination becomes that delusion and she sees him not once but twice during her experience.
It ends with her being the person sitting at the green light in the Deja-vu scenario, the same as the first guy, with someone behind her honking.

The twist is that her delusion is a strange loop of the first guy's delusion.

We are left to wonder how the first guy's delusion started and continued and we are left to wonder who will next take on the delusional loop - the person behind her, honking, maybe?

I don't agree with @Orz's explaination. This story held no allusions to stereotypes, opinions of others, equality or anything else like that. (at all) That' just reading things into it that aren't there..
I saw a great loop of events that make you stop and think wow, that's some messed up trippy Twilight Zone stuff right there..

I find red light cameras actually cause me to drive worse. Because whenever I get close to a stop light that has one if it goes yellow I ALWAYS stop even if I shouldn't. I mean I don't go tires screeching into it, but I will do hard stops because once the light is yellow you're not supposed to be in the intersection.

Then all it takes is someone who has rigged the lights to change a second or two too soon and blam you've got a ticket. How do you DISPROVE that?

Then I have to take time off to go to court and try to fight a ticket?

One day I'm going to get rear-ended at one of these lights. Even though I'm doing nothing wrong stopping not entering an intersection at a red light someone else won't be paying attention.

Thanks Big Brother!

Sincerely,
Future Me

I bet all the ladies will check me out when I play this at stop lights !

Nothing is woman-proof.

>> ^laura:

It's a good thing he took over when he did; one more stop light or traffic sign and she might have popped a tire! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Oh wait, they're Polyglass tires, which are woman-proof. Whew.

That's the other type of rubber.

>> ^Darkhand:

>> ^laura:
It's a good thing he took over when he did; one more stop light or traffic sign and she might have popped a tire! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Oh wait, they're Polyglass tires, which are woman-proof. Whew.

Now If I only I could find women proof relationships. Just a way for two men to be together and do the things they do with women but you know with other guys.

>> ^laura:

It's a good thing he took over when he did; one more stop light or traffic sign and she might have popped a tire! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Oh wait, they're Polyglass tires, which are woman-proof. Whew.


Now If I only I could find women proof relationships. Just a way for two men to be together and do the things they do with women but you know with other guys.

You've come a long way, baby.>> ^laura:

It's a good thing he took over when he did; one more stop light or traffic sign and she might have popped a tire! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Oh wait, they're Polyglass tires, which are woman-proof. Whew.