Does it mean:
A) stop unless it’s unsafe to do so (ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) as the next light will be red
Or
B) go unless it’s unsafe to do so
To me the answer is A. However a driving instructor, and I repeat a driving INSTRUCTOR told me yesterday it’s B which I totally disagree with.
A for me…
Some Driving instructors amaze me with their take on things, like gears are for going not slowing, would love to see him try that on some of the mountain roads in various places around Europe & beyond…
Red and amber lights both mean stop. Even a green light doesn’t actually mean go, it means proceed with caution.
However, the instructor may have meant that if you are approaching lights and they begin to change then it can often be safer to carry on through the lights if you are too close to stop safely in a way that doesn’t affect traffic behind you
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Surely amber means check for camera before carrying on 
CookieMonster:
Red and amber lights both mean stop. Even a green light doesn’t actually mean go, it means proceed with caution.
However, the instructor may have meant that if you are approaching lights and they begin to change then it can often be safer to carry on through the lights if you are too close to stop safely in a way that doesn’t affect traffic behind youSent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
So surely it’s still better to word as stop unless unsafe because otherwise he’s just teaching people to be amber gamblers. Floor it unless it’s actually turned to red.
eurotrans:
Surely amber means check for camera before carrying on
We’ve all done that 
Overall it’ll be A every time depending on road conditions ie diesel bloom or icy.
If its anywhere in leicester, it means the bod programming the light sequences is going to find his’en on a disciplinary.
No one in any vehicle is allowed at any time of day or night to approach a set of lights and find them on any colour other than red, an amber before the red means the programming is out and might encourage some delusional soul into believing they might actually find a traffic light on green, the light should have been red automatically as you approached it, from the previous set you waited at that is, whether 15mph, 30 mph, or 130mph 
The most frustrating bloody place in the country to drive in, quite how those who live there put up with it i do not know.
Prepare to stop for me
Floor it and hope.
The Highway Code goes with A.
Amber:
Stop. Unless you have already crossed the stop line, or if stopping would cause an accident.
We can all think of instances when tailgaters, slippery surfaces, being late for a tea-break, make continuing acceptable, but the instructor is wrong.
Being a rather negative soul I tend to be prepared to stop at a green light. To be fair, that’s mostly because of what I carry. Any heavy braking and the load is going over.
A for me, but I will pass through them if needs must.
C) Change to lower gear, floor it, realize it doesn’t have the desired effect, release a deep sigh of disappointment, apply brakes.
toonsy:
Floor it and hope.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
thats the only optiom…we have a winner there… 
Rowley010:
Does it mean:A) stop unless it’s unsafe to do so (ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) as the next light will be red
Or
B) go unless it’s unsafe to do so
To me the answer is A. However a driving instructor, and I repeat a driving INSTRUCTOR told me yesterday it’s B which I totally disagree with.
Was he properly qualified or a micky mouse one? The latter I suspect! Maybe grass the useless mother up eh.
(ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) WHAT? Pardon? If a vehicle was going too fast and was too heavy to stop the driver did not anticipate the lights changing by slowing down on approach. A pathetic excuse for bad driving.
ETS:
C) Change to lower gear, floor it, realize it doesn’t have the desired effect, release a deep sigh of disappointment, apply brakes.
This sounds about right if empty [emoji23].
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A for me, but I sometimes think that lights don’t stay amber long enough, specially if your in a loaded truck. I remember one of the first things I learned when doing my HGV lessons was that approaching a green light was a pig as you didn’t know if you were going to have to stop or not.
I saw a good idea in Austria years ago, the green light would flash 4 or 5 times before going to amber, gives you more of a chance to pull up.
jakethesnake:
Rowley010:
Does it mean:A) stop unless it’s unsafe to do so (ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) as the next light will be red
Or
B) go unless it’s unsafe to do so
To me the answer is A. However a driving instructor, and I repeat a driving INSTRUCTOR told me yesterday it’s B which I totally disagree with.
Was he properly qualified or a micky mouse one? The latter I suspect! Maybe grass the useless mother up eh.
(ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) WHAT? Pardon? If a vehicle was going too fast and was too heavy to stop the driver did not anticipate the lights changing by slowing down on approach. A pathetic excuse for bad driving.
It should mean prepare to stop.But the stupid rule makers say it means stop the same as red so what’s the bleedin point of the amber might as well go from green to red and don’t bother with it.
So how slowly are you going to approach a stale green bearing in mind reaction times and distances ?.Also why not use a flashing green as in Austria for example to warn of the change to amber.
GORDON 50:
I saw a good idea in Austria years ago, the green light would flash 4 or 5 times before going to amber, gives you more of a chance to pull up.
^ This.
Also many continental countries set the lights to flashing amber over night.On that note if green supposedly means proceed with caution then what does flashing amber mean.
jakethesnake:
Rowley010:
Does it mean:A) stop unless it’s unsafe to do so (ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) as the next light will be red
Or
B) go unless it’s unsafe to do so
To me the answer is A. However a driving instructor, and I repeat a driving INSTRUCTOR told me yesterday it’s B which I totally disagree with.
Was he properly qualified or a micky mouse one? The latter I suspect! Maybe grass the useless mother up eh.
(ie too fast and heavy or past the point of no return etc) WHAT? Pardon? If a vehicle was going too fast and was too heavy to stop the driver did not anticipate the lights changing by slowing down on approach. A pathetic excuse for bad driving.
No all I mean by that is that your point of no return is different for a fully loaded truck compared to an empty one and different again for a car, so I don’t mean lack of anticipation but there is a point where if they change to amber then your still going to go as it’s unsafe to stop. Not down to not anticipating a phase change. Although some will use that as an excuse, like you say for bad driving. It could have been on amber for 2 seconds and they could easily have stopped yet they floored it and ended up going through when it had changed to red and used the I passed the point of no return excuse, well no you didn’t. But there’s always a point where that is genuine.
Some junctions in Canada have a count down displaying 10 to 1 before the light goes from green to amber. I thought this was a good idea.