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		Empedocles99 on Sept 23, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study: Traffic lights should respond to cars, not ... Keep all lights red. Nobody moves, pretty simple heuristic solves for reducing automobile accidents.

sprout on Sept 25, 2010 [–]

Maybe the ideal is that there are signals that permit bicycles and pedestrians, but if cars want to go they have to get out and push a button to get the light to let them through.

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