At the traffic lights do you "leave everyone in the dust"?

[j2k4]

With all due attention to every possible safety consideration - after all, at any busy 4-way you're gonna have several front-row witnesses; it's a bad time to be stupid - when leaving an intersection, if someone else tries, I make sure I try a little bit harder.

[CoopKill]

Meh, I leave normal 80% of the time, but stay at their door. If they get frisky, I remain at their door. If they get froggy, bye bye...

[green-lantern]

It's probably my neck of the woods, people blast through the start of red lights all the time here. It sounds like your penalties are on par or close to ours, but it feels as though they're rarely enforced. Excessive acceleration on the other hand? They'll get you for that.

I always look both ways before I pull out if it's it's a red light or 4 way stop.

It's not like I brake boost and launch every light, I don't do that at all, but I do "leave everyone in the dust" because I am attentive to stop lights. People unattentive at lights are people who cause traffic to pile up, and don't let as many cars as possible get through the light.

Funny that I am attentive at lights, because to anything else if its more than 5 seconds I am usually like "Oh look a squirell."

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[Turbo Beast]

Every time im a the red light at the line, ill wait till it turns green but before that ill rev up the car a couple of times while im checking the weather/facebook updates/texts/phone calls/my make up.

Then, when it turns green, ill just wait till somebody lays on the horn and then ill go very slowly. Sometimes it scares me and ill let the car die because I cant drive a stick.

[94stealthr/t]

Every time im a the red light at the line, ill wait till it turns green but before that ill rev up the car a couple of times while im checking the weather/facebook updates/texts/phone calls/my make up.

Then, when it turns green, ill just wait till somebody lays on the horn and then ill go very slowly. Sometimes it scares me and ill let the car die because I cant drive a stick.

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[green-lantern]

[wingnut]

Meh, I leave normal 80% of the time, but stay at their door. If they get frisky, I remain at their door. If they get froggy, bye bye...

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[Street_Chally73]

Since I live so close to Michigan & the natural tendency to drive like idiots originated in the U.P. (true story, look it up), I pretty much give it hell till 5 above the speed limit to make sure the person alongside me doesn't try to shoot out in front of me to make his/her turn two blocks up.

The other time I usually try to be ahead of them is on the last light before it switches to two-lanes (heading back to semi-normality in WI). There are three potential outlets for MI drivers (four if you include the liquor store across the bridge), so their natural tendency to try to get around you off the light, only to slam on the brakes w/no turn signal, is much greater than the average person.


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[93STLTH]

I rarely do it in the Stealth, because I know the car attracts attention from the men in blue, but once and a while, I like to show off to the gods of acceleration. In my Infiniti FX 45, I do it much more often. A lot of people in so called "fast cars" are surprised to get dusted by an SUV. But it's a 330 hp, V8, AWD with traction control SUV. It's pretty much a sports car in SUV clothing.

[Alex3000gt]

At the risk of sounding like a Debbie Downer, I do not race out of stop lights. Seen too many people almost, and one time actually, get t-boned by others trying to beat the red light going the other direction.

It's not like I brake boost and launch every light, I don't do that at all, but I do "leave everyone in the dust" because I am attentive to stop lights. People unattentive at lights are people who cause traffic to pile up, and don't let as many cars as possible get through the light.

Funny that I am attentive at lights, because to anything else if its more than 5 seconds I am usually like "Oh look a squirell."

I drive briskly, in all my cars, but I don't floor it out of the gate in any of them. I'm also usually quicker than the other guy next to me at a light to notice it's changed to green. I typically drive about 10mph over, so I accelerate to that speed in a linear fashion. I can't stand it when people press the gas, get up to about 20mph, then I guess they decide they're going too fast, so then they creep up to 30, and then by that time they've gone a quarter mile or more and they see a speed limit sign that says it's 40, so then they hurry up and get to 40. This seems to be the norm around here unfortunately.

Pretty much a combination of these three. I always look left and right as the light is changing, and accelerate linearly up to around 2-5 over and cruise. No show boating, but it is enough to leave four out of five cars far behind.