>But the exercise was to ask: if it's 100% safe to go at a red light [once you've stopped at it], with zero potential for anyone getting hurt, do you go through the red light, or do you wait until it turns green?
Stop and wait. Keep those good habits a part of your second nature.
>If you're at a stop sign or red traffic light, and if it's legal in your jurisdiction to turn right on, you have to start rolling forward - and are allowed to even if there's a blindspot and can't see any traffic coming yet [the road could be clear or not...
This is true, but you are missing one very important caveat; you pull up to the stop sign, THEN YOU STOP, and then you slowly inch forward to see past the blind spot and continue on per the rest of your comment.
Stop and wait. Keep those good habits a part of your second nature.
>If you're at a stop sign or red traffic light, and if it's legal in your jurisdiction to turn right on, you have to start rolling forward - and are allowed to even if there's a blindspot and can't see any traffic coming yet [the road could be clear or not...
This is true, but you are missing one very important caveat; you pull up to the stop sign, THEN YOU STOP, and then you slowly inch forward to see past the blind spot and continue on per the rest of your comment.