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Cars

11 months ago

Yellow Lights Need To Be Longer

Kristen Lee

Hacking Into Traffic Lights With A Plain Old Laptop Is Scary Simple

Online

6 years ago

Hacking Into Traffic Lights With A Plain Old Laptop Is Scary Simple

Adam Clark Estes

This Busy Street Intersection With No Traffic Lights Is Just Pure Chaos

Online

7 years ago

This Busy Street Intersection With No Traffic Lights Is Just Pure Chaos

Casey Chan

Anarchy. That’s what it’s like to drive on the streets of Ethiopia. There are no traffic lights, no painted lanes, no rules on who has the right of way, no fear of hitting the car in front of you, and basically no driver has any idea what the other driver…

London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got The Olympics

Online

8 years ago

London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got The Olympics

Kyle Wagner

9 years ago

The Stops And Starts Of Designing Traffic Lights

Rachel Swaby

You might not realise it when you’ve been trapped behind the same red light for five minutes, but traffic lights, when they’re timed and tuned correctly, are actually pretty good at making traffic move. Really.

9 years ago

Tomorrow’s Stoplights Will Look Like Exclamation Points

Kwame Opam

11 years ago

Energy-Efficient LED Traffic Lights Are Backfiring In A Deadly Way

Sean Fallon

12 years ago

Italian Traffic Lights Rigged to Trap Motorists in the Red

Gizmodo US Edition

An Italian programmer and over 100 other individuals, including public figures, policemen, and government officials, are currently being investigated for what seems to be a traffic-light-rigging conspiracy.

12 years ago

Art Lebedev Tackles the Traffic Light: Square is the New Circle

Gizmodo US Edition

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