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4/24/2014 4:01:56 AM
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You're -blam!-ing kidding me with this shit right Florida?
So I got my certificate of completion for my Drug And Alcohol Course in the state of Florida. I'm going in Friday to get my Permit. However, when I was doing the course, it had a section on traffic lights and speed limits (obviously). And it said something very interesting:
[quote]"Traffic lights are synchronized with speed limits, if you go the proper speed limit, you will hit every green light to you destination." [/quote]
Bull.
-blam!-ing.
Shit.
it doesn't honestly expect me to believe that right? I have been in the car countless times with my friends and family driving when we're going to proper speed limit and it gives us the red light a good five times in a row. What kind of idiot does the state of Florida take me for? There is no way you can possibly make me believe such a ludicrous statement.
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I love florida, girls are hot, alcohol is cheap, and beaches are nice... but florida has some of the worst drivers on the planet.
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Depends on the traffic engineering, but yes, that is a goal of most roads and light timing. In Virginia, there are electronic sensors in the road that when they detect someone going over the speed limit, will trigger an "early" red light in order to slow down the speeder.
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1 ReplyThis is assuming the best case scenario in which you start at a green light and despite all simultaneously occurring events, continue to move at the exact speed limit, and you don't happen to be headed through an intersection of more than two crossing roads. So in other words, it's not [i]impossible[/i], but in many cases it won't happen
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2 RepliesI don't possibly see how that could work even if they were calibrated with speed limits. It has to stop a flow of traffic for the sake of another at some point.
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Sure, in theory. You wouldn't time lights to be random but to [i]generally[/i] allow traffic traveling at the appropriate speed to get through in the direction of heaviest flow. Will it always work? No.
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Maybe it's a measure for the future, and it'll be true in 20 years?
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4 RepliesI mean some will say it eventually so I'll go ahead and say it. >Florida Their is your problem
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There are some roads that are set up like that, at least where I am. On my way to my college campus there is a point where I drive about ten miles down a busy road with multiple traffic stops, a lot of times I can make it down most of the stretch without having to stop more that once or twice. Also there are sensors in a lot of the roads nowadays that detect if a car is waiting on a light, if there isn't a car the light will remain green instead of switching at fixed intervals.
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Edited by Rocketman287: 4/24/2014 4:27:08 AMIm in Florida too, and remember reading that when I took my driver's test 4 years ago. A BLATANT LIE!!!! Lights are triggered by motion, and some have timers. SO, driving the speed limit does nothing D:
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2 RepliesWas it at least a true or false thing?
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2 RepliesLouisiana has a similar problem in some places. The problem is that the way the lights are synched, if you happen to catch one red light, then you're going to catch them all.
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Floreda
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9 RepliesAren't you 18? Why do you need a permit?
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If you drive in the city, it'll most likely have Smart Lights that detect vehicles rather than solely be on a timer. On a highway its on a timer that is most likely not synchronized.
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The only place I have ever been where this actually works is San Antonio. When I lived in Tampa, traffic was [i]awful[/i]. It actually works [i]really[/i] well in San Antonio, but only one road, which just underwent [i]massive[/i] work to make it work properly last year.
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Haha it will work if you approach at the red light with the speed limit, then floor it through all of the others before they change, if you go speed limit you may be too slow. It's the only way truly
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What it means is that if you see a green light and drive at the speed limit, the lights should work so that you have a relatively continuous ride
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11 RepliesYea, our home state isn't the best is it lol. South Florida FTW
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3 RepliesActually it really doesn't surprise me that they're set up that way. DoT has thought ahead on so many things it's unbelievable.
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>_> Write a letter, that nonsense is inexcusable.
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It's Florida. Expect bullshit at every turn.
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That is one of the biggest pieces of bullshit and idocy that I've ever read. And I've read threads in #Density.
