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If you start slowing down sooner, there’s a higher chance that the light will turn green before you’re fully stopped. Then you can blast past the people stopped in the other lane.

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unless some asshole decides to stop in your lane before you.

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Even better: learn the pattern of the traffic lights in your commute, and don’t slow down if you see it will turn green in less than two seconds.

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That’s how you t-bone the idiot who doesn’t stop at the red light

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The only way to avoid that would be to stop at every green light.

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Treating green lights as safe = RIP

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If you drive manual, the pro move is to engine brake all the way down. If the light turns green, you’re already in gear and possibly even higher up in revs meaning you can quickly swap right back to the gas pedal. Feels cool every time it happens.

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Newer automatics have manual overrides that you can do this with. It saves brake pads wear too, which is nice.

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  1. Just go close to the speed limit. Be safe.

  2. You could also argue that going fast means you have a chance to make a light before it goes green, so you increase your opportunity. If you dont catch the green you are only as bad as par.

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where’s the fun in that. my 300000hp engine can get to the stop light faster.

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