The Traffic Light

Traffic lights - the first electrical traffic light was invented here in Salt Lake City in 1912. The first interconnected traffic light system in the world was installed five years later, also here in Salt Lake City. Roughly five minutes later some guy in a model T ran a red light at 4mph, thus inaugurating a fine Utah tradition of having no idea what traffic lights mean.

Now, your average Utah driver has one of two interpretations for the colors on a traffic signal -
A) Green - go, Yellow - go faster, Red - go fastest
B) Green - stop, Yellow - begin inching into the intersection, Red - stop undecidedly in the middle of the intersection before deciding to go on through

Now in my youth we played a little game called "Red Light/Green Light" wherein you would go when "Green Light" was called and stop when a "Red Light" was called. I propose we adopt a similar system with regards to traffic lights. When the light is green - go, when red - stop. But what about those pesky yellow lights you ask? Let's just say that if you can't make it through the intersection before the light goes red, you should have stopped.