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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Traffic Lights: A History

 It might surprise you to find out that the first traffic light predates the first car by decades, and that the colors we take for granted are the same nearly the whole world round. How we decided on the traffic lights as we know them today, and the colors we chose, is a story of regulation and modernization. 

VIDEO HERE  (15:42 minutes)

8 comments:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NWIULrw4Z8

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  2. We didnt choose. If it were me, there would be none traffic lights.

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    1. So, you like the traffic circles?

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    2. Ban all traffic, it's the democratic way....

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    3. Why do you think it must be either/or?

      How about neither. How about all drivers learn the rules to a minimum standard. Violators pay heavy.

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  3. Recently I came across a You Tube video about North Korea. They don't have a reliable electricity supply so instead of traffic lights they have really cute women in really smart uniforms directing the traffic.

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  4. Hooey, all of it. Everyone knows that the traffic light was invented by a genius homeboy, without whom your exquisitely engineered German automobiles would be nothing but smoking wrecks at every intersection.

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