3. Yellow
Yes, you can get wild with a yellow light. Gas it and hope there aren’t cops around. Sprint across the street as a pedestrian.
Overall, though, too stressful. Lots of accidents. Lots of piss moves: taking the left turn on yellow even though you’re second (most of the time) or third (all the time) or heaven forbid fourth (what the hell is wrong with you other people are people too) in line, not taking the left turn on yellow even though you’re first in line (please don’t forget that you’re responsible for society continuing to function), slowing down and then speeding up and almost causing a collision because some good soldier turning left is trying to vacate the intersection (I get it, it’s hard, but you just almost killed a family and they’d be deemed the ones at fault by the legal system).
A good light. Not a great light.
2. Green
Hot take here, but green lights are kind of plain. What, you’re too good to wait your turn?
2.5. Red
Wow, no number one in these power rankings. Boom. Bet you weren’t expecting that, punk.
Red lights are good, in ways. We can all check our phones, easing the withdrawal we experience from that oft-fatal addiction. But then someone ruins it by just staying on their phone even when the light turns green and now the red light feels like a bad idea. Also, lots of piss moves on this one too: laying on the horn because the car in front of you isn’t turning out into traffic to their certain demise, for example.
One redeeming factor is that every now and then it’s the middle of the night and the stoplight’s stuck on red and there’s no one around so you can feel like a badass by running a red light. Pretty fun stuff.
