Confusing traffic lights

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

...Green lights are often called “blue” in Japan.
Young people tend to call blue, and older people tend to call green. (Why? I don’t know.)...

Different ideas about how to describe colors I guess.

Blue=Green Discussion
translated:

...Japanese blue and green are all both called Itarashii.
The different colors of the sun even in some countries, it is so different from the perception of color by country.
Japan's ancient sun seemed to be red. I'll know many call it yellow.
Yes because there was no recognition of the green and yellow...

So maybe green or yellow were 'disliked' colors... So people substitute blue in odd ways?

I suppose you could say that color doesn't translate well from traditional Japanese...

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

If you saw this would you stop or go?

qwk · Nov 25, 2011

TEG said:
If you saw this would you stop or go?

No right turn???

Doug_G · Nov 25, 2011

TEG said:
If you saw this would you stop or go?

I sure wouldn't turn right.

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

More blue=go in Japan:

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

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Stop...Uh, Go... No, Stop...

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

TEG said:
If you saw this would you stop or go?

I think some were assuming the red above the assumed right arrow means no right turn, but then I saw this:

Maybe Benji or Doug can jump in and explain how those sorts of lights work?

TEG · Nov 25, 2011

LOL:

Doug_G · Nov 25, 2011

TEG said:
I think some were assuming the red above the assumed right arrow means no right turn, but then I saw this:

Maybe Benji or Doug can jump in and explain how those sorts of lights work?

We often have lights here where there's a red and a right turn arrow. We used to have some lights that had red and a straight arrow, meaning no turns allowed (they eventually replaced all of those will "fully indicated" intersections where the left turns have their own lights).

At one point they tried lights with a red arrow ("don't go this way"), but they must have confused some people because they didn't last long.

Anyway given the above these lights aren't really that much of a stretch.

Norbert · Nov 25, 2011

TEG said:
I think some were assuming the red above the assumed right arrow means no right turn, but then I saw this:

Maybe Benji or Doug can jump in and explain how those sorts of lights work?

Seems you are out of luck if you want to turn left... :biggrin: (So why are there three lights on the top?)

Doug_G · Nov 25, 2011

Norbert said:
Seems you are out of luck if you want to turn left... :biggrin: (So why are there three lights on the top?)

Amber and Green, of course.

Lloyd · Nov 25, 2011

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