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> No new car should enter the intersection when the lights turn to yellow.

Cars will obviously enter the intersection under a yellow. It's why we have a yellow.

Even if everyone wanted to stop for every yellow, at 35 mph with average reaction time, cars will travel a minimum of 100 feet after the yellow phase starts. Some of those cars will enter the intersection.

With a typical 4 second yellow, some drivers don't even choose to stop for the first half of the yellow, of course.



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