Originally Posted by
howsteepisit
Why are we talking about how to get cars to flow smoothly? I find that on my bike its pretty easy to figure out how fast to ride to time lights, if (and these days its a big if) i can ride fast enough to catch the greens. and if the light ahead is red, I either run it with appropriate slowing, or slow enough to wait for it to turn green.
Yeah, but that means you are actually thinking about what you are doing.
I do the same thing even when I drive... yet I see the majority of drivers around me rush to the next stop light, sit there and then zoom off when the light turns green. I also see that quite a few of them seem to be staring at something other than the road.... thus they are not really paying attention to traffic, the lights or timing their approach.