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Originally Posted by Casper68
What about the distraction of the slower car leaving ?....I think the 'first or worst' is fine. If I have to wait while the slower car leaves, then why give the slower car the 'advantage' of maybe distracting me into a redlight....?
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You can talk 'til the world looks level about advantages that slower cars have, and the advantages that faster cars have, but those are usually not things that can be changed.
This is a system that CAN be changed, so NOBODY has the advantage in this area.
You can't say, "Let's keep this advantage for the faster car, because the slower car blah, blah, blah..."
because for every advantage you can name for slower car, there's a matching one for the faster car.
And, this change is not just going to affect cars on a "slow-vs.-fast-car" basis; it will affect ANY two cars that are not running heads-up. When a V/SA 6-cylinder car spots a W/SA 4-cylinder Pinto wagon, it will apply to both of them, and so on up the board.
The ONLY car that won't USUALLY have a chance to benefit from this will be an AA/S car, although it was recently pointed out to me that DRC reported that an A car spotted a AA car at a race, so the AA car was the first to leave, and could have been the beneficiary of a worse red light by the second-to-leave A car, if they'd both red-lit.
That's an anomaly, but proves that at some time or other EVERY car could benefit from this change.