Traffic Rules
Started: 2005-05-11 13:04:08
Submitted: 2005-05-11 13:08:40
Visibility: World-readable
You approach a traffic light at the helm of an arbitrary road-certified motor vehicle. The light is dark; no power is reaching it and no signal is visible. Do you:
- Speed through the intersection, secure in the knowledge that you're on the main road and everyone else can wait for you?
- Slow down enough to remain cautious of your surroundings but glide unabated through the light?
- Treat the intersection as a four-way stop?
I'll leave the answer as an exercise to the reader and simply observe that four of the five traffic lights I passed through on my way back from lunch just now were dark. The first one I pulled up to went dark, started flashing red, and went dark again within ten seconds as I approached the intersection. Oddly enough, the one fully-functioning light was in the middle of my route back to the office.
