If you were stopped at a red light and nobody else was around, would you wait for the green light or just go?

Question

If you were stopped at a red light and nobody else was around, would you wait for the green light or just go?

Answer 1

I always wait unless there's some sort of threat to me.

Answer 2

I would always wait.  Even if there's nobody there, you're going to at least stop, aren't you?  As long as you're stopped, you might as well wait a few seconds for the light to turn.  If there's nobody coming, the light will turn pretty quickly.

But I ride a motorcycle and sometimes the light doesn't 'see' me there.  If it stays red for more than 30 seconds or a minute, I will look around very carefully and then cruise through it.  I always think one of these days I'm going to get caught and get a ticket, and then I'll have to explain to a judge how the light didn't change for me.  But I've never gotten a ticket for it.

Answer 3

I would wait, you never know what may come down the street.

Of course if I was out in the middle of nowhere and waited for awhile without another car in site, I would probably go with caution.

Answer 4

Depends on the light. Where I used to live there was a light on a sensor that would stay red on the side I had to drive through for three solid minutes before changing. And this was at one or two in the morning. I also used to drive through downtown Atl. late night, and I always treated red lights as stop signs there.

Stopping at red lights is not a moral obligation, just a legal one.  

Answer 5

is there a camera around?