Traffic Lights
Traffic lights of the future know when you want to cross the street
Computer vision saves you from having to push a button.
Ford tests technology that could render traffic lights obsolete
Ford dreams of a connected-car world.
Oregon fines man $500 for using math to challenge red-light cameras
Oregon says someone with an engineering degree can't call themselves an engineer unless they have a license.
Watch as a driver in Manhattan makes 240 consecutive green lights
An early morning drive shines a whole new light on a city.
Ditching red-light cameras increases fatalities 30 percent
The lives of the many outweigh the cost to your wallet.
How might autonomous cars shape our cities?
The way we change transport could change the way our cities look. It probably will, in fact.
Hackers Can Tinker With Traffic Lights, Other Road Systems
The next time Gov. Chris Christie wants to create traffic problems on the George Washington Bridge, he may have more sophisticated options than an old-fashioned study.
Invention turns traffic lights into a game to ease congestion
Sometimes, we get angry being stuck in traffic. We might be fuming about the person playing on their cellphone that rear-ended someone, or we might blame the person poking along in the left lane. And yes, sometimes, we might just blame the oppressive injustice doled out by traffic lights, particularly when we hit every... single... red.
Florida DOT quietly changed yellow-light standards, municipalities issuing more tickets
Red light cameras don't appear to be going away, so it should come as no surprise that neither are the controversies around them. We're told again and again that they're about safety, not revenue collection, yet year after year, the studies and headlines compete to support and tear down those arguments. An investigative report by Florida's WTSP Channel 10 News gets the maelstrom whirling again, having found that vario
Florida Shortens Yellow Lights To Issue More Tickets
In Tampa Bay a special investigation from WTSP 10 News has uncovered a systematic statewide scam to shorten yellow lights, in some areas doubling the amount of tickets issued at intersections.
LA traffic lights get in sync to ease congestion [w/video]
Los Angeles is moving forward with a plan to ease traffic congestion by synchronizing all of the city's 4,398 stoplights. While smaller municipalities have followed similar plans in the past, LA is the first major city to take a stab at getting all of its lights to play nice together. If it works, the new system could increase average traffic speeds by 16 percent and reduce travel ti
How insects might help make traffic lights smarter and more efficient
Anyone who has ever driven some of our nation's more congested areas may argue that sitting in traffic for hours at a time is not natural human behavior, and they may be right. In fact, negotiating traffic may be more of the provence of insects, as a Gizmag report suggests.
Audi demonstrating Travolution vehicle to infrastructure communications
Audi Travolution – Click above for high-res image gallery
Cleaner, more efficient transportation infrastructure better for the environment economy
Finding the nexus where different groups – hardcore environmentalists and hardcore business-firsters, for example – share common ground isn't always easy. Today, we think we've got one: smarter, greener transportation systems.
Editorial: A simple way to reduce SoCal pollution and fuel consumption
As I spent several days in Los Angeles, CA last week I came to several realizations. First I never want to live there. While air quality has dramatically improved since the 1960s, the geography of the region means that it will never be as good as other places. Since the 1960s, California politicians and regulators have continually tightened emissions standards to the point where more than 99 percent of the pollution produced by cars and trucks in those days has been eliminated, and yet they want