The concept of the traffic light actually dates all the way back to the 1860s, where gas-lit signals were placed on the posh streets that lined the Houses of Parliament in London.

Traffic Light Signal Timing Plans. ... This is where cameras came along as a new and improved solution, able to easily tell how many cars are lined up and adjust the lights accordingly.

Anyone who's sat at a red light for minutes on end in the middle of the night when there's no cross traffic can cheer on science for proving what we already knew: lights that adapt to the flow of ...

There are numerous everyday traffic scenarios that could be made safer by cars with front-facing braking indicators.

Sadly, not everyone always does abide, and there is a significant portion of the annual 6.3M car crashes and 37,000 annual car-related deaths that can be attributed to violating a red light. Some ...

So get ready for every old-timer to absolutely lose it over the IEEE's latest idea: A "white light," phase on traffic lights that would serve both to help direct self-driving cars and let human ...

Traffic lights are both common and controversial. From a city that only allowed green lights for drivers staying inside the speed limit, to the ethics of turning right on red, there are a ton of ...

These simulators are showing researchers that traffic improves with the presence of AVs and a fourth traffic light and that fuel consumption is much lower as there is much less stop-and-go movement.

Cars don’t directly receive traffic-light data from the city. There’s a middle step involved. Information on the traffic lights’ signal phases is transmitted from a regional traffic-control ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Weeks after a multi-car crash at the intersection of Wainwright Avenue and Drumgoole Road East in ...

Aside from the car-adorning traffic lights, Skoda is testing another pedestrian aid – a robotic rover called IPA2X (see it in action in the second video).