Red light at beginning

I was told when I asked someone locally who had visited some places in Europe, that it is for people to rev up their engines or to put their engines in gear for the Green light.

We don't have that where we live. Oddly we live in the Motor-City area, so if anything, you'd think we would have something like that.

But opposite of that: Sometimes your able to see out of the corner of your eye the signal on the side for the cars going the opposite direction... That there light is 'Green'- then it goes to 'Yellow'.. Well in this day and age, often they try to block your ability to see this. I think the reasoning behind this, is so that people don't start out into the intersection too quickly. The problem is that too many run the 'Yellow' light into 'Orange?!' If cars are going at the same time, than wammo! -

Actually in the movie I couldn't tell what happened. Perhaps, that is exactly what did happen. Who was at fault? Did he run the light?

Lots of countries have that and oddly it reduces people running red lights. I wish the US would go that route. It's about telling the drivers that it's about time - get ready.

I've never driven in the UK but I know I've seen it in multiple other countries.