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Originally Posted by trebuchet03
Rather than tell people how long they have to hit a green (resulting in people laying down on the gas)... Tell them how fast they need to go to hit a green
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I'm not sure what you are getting at... there's a window of time for a green light, so a motorist would need to know the maximum speed (it would be an MIN(speedlimit, maxspeed) - so as to not cause speeding), so that they could go up to that speed before they will hit the red light before it changes. The motorist would also need to know the minimum speed so that they made sure not to coast too much and go under that speed limit, missing the light.
At the moment the motorist faces a quandry - go the full speed and hit the red light, or go slower and maybe miss the green light before you get there. As it stands, sometimes I go too slow because I don't want to waste kinetic energy unecessarily, and if I don't make the light, I end up causing someone else to waste their fuel idling.
If given both speeds, the motorist can judge it himself.