How to never stop at a red light again

Mostly anyway . . . This idea was inspired by the following article: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html

Here's the trick. With a little thought and effort, this trick can make it so that you'll never have to actually stop for traffic lights again. To explain the effectiveness, I first have to explain the opposite. Most people will do the hurry up and wait routine. This means that they are rushing to the next intersection in the vague hope of making it through in time. This works occasionally, but can result in a speeding ticket too. Moreover it results in lots of hard accelerations, and hard braking. It's tough on the car and the driver. Drivers doing this are thinking that they are beating the system because occationally it actually works. They aren't.

The best thing to do is to adjust your timing. Many lights do function on timers, and are staggered so that if you are going at a certain constant speed you'll be able to go through a series of lights without stopping.

The key is to gage how long green lights last, and how long red lights last, which you can do within a couple of intersections. If your approaching an intersection that is already green, and has been for a while, and you're roughly 15 seconds away from the intersection, your best bet is to slow down. It is about to finish it's green cycle, and will hit it's red cycle shortly. If you slow down, it lengthens the amount of time that it takes you to reach the intersection. With a little practice you should be able to reach the intersection without breaking at all.