BEAUMONT, Texas — A new kind of traffic light design is catching drivers’ eyes, and intentionally limiting their view, at major intersections across Beaumont. Slatted visors have been ...

The stop sign’s days look numbered, too.[Image: Art. Lebedev Studio]However, the largest advantage to this light is what else it can do when you combine colors and iconography to convey strange ...

(WHTM) — We see traffic lights all the time. Sometimes we get green lights, and sometimes we hit all the red lights on our commute to work. But, while sitting at a red light, have you ever wo… ...

William Ghiglieri of San Francisco patented the first automatic traffic signal that used red and green lights in 1917. Ghiglieri's design had the option of being either automatic or manual.

To be taken seriously, a new traffic light design would have to meet---or, more likely, far surpass---existing legibility standards. Take visual acuity, or the ability to read text from a distance.

September 17, 2014 Smart's Dancing Traffic Light aimed to capture the attention of pedestrians and incentivize more to wait for the green man until crossing the road View 6 Images View gallery - 6 ...

Based on a design by James Hoge, who received the U.S. patent for his device in 1918, the "Municipal Traffic Control System" comprised four pairs of red and green lights that served as stop-and-go ...

The yellow light is by far the most sophisticated and cognitively challenging part of any traffic light. Red and green lights have had to consider timing, namely: how long should one side of the ...