Proceed with CAUTION

I pulled a muscle in my ass over the weekend while walking my dogs. I should say that my dog pulled a muscle in my ass since it was my dog who pulled and my ass that tried to stay where it was.

Does anyone else find it absurd the way our stop light system works? How in the hell does it make sense to go from the-right-of-way to proceed-with-caution, to STOP. In Europe the lights go from red to yellow to green which is admittedly un-american (hence, intelligent) since no one can go from 0-60 in the change of a light, no matter what they drive. You HAVE TO proceed with caution first while you get up to speed. Also, you get a green light after the cross road has been told to stop proceeding with caution. If you just jump right out there those cross-road cars may proceed-with-cuation right into your driver-side door. It simply isn't a reasonable process. It should be: STOP, Proceed-with-caution, then GO-GODDAMNIT!

WHAT?!