^^ Jason hit it exactly right. I read all the comments here just looking for that one.
This is by far the easiest and best solution to traffic lights. I've thought so for years. I suppose though then driver's licensing would require that a person know how to count and that's just not fair. Every idiot is entitled to a license to hurl 3000 lbs of metal around, right?
But then, there wouldn't be anyone like me... pulled over and ticketed for running a yellow in the rain when it was definitely safer to proceed than stop. But then that poor ass town of 1300 people (why does a town that big even have a stop light?) wouldn't have had my $90. Heck, I bet a couple police officers got a nice christmas turkey out of that.
(Anyone know any small town cops? They all get turkeys as christmas bonuses.)
Countdown timers are being added to pedestrian WALK/DONT WALK signs here in Florida (some parts anyway)... so maybe the same idea could somehow migrate to the traffic lights themselves!
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^^ Jason hit it exactly right. I read all the comments here just looking for that one.
This is by far the easiest and best solution to traffic lights. I've thought so for years. I suppose though then driver's licensing would require that a person know how to count and that's just not fair. Every idiot is entitled to a license to hurl 3000 lbs of metal around, right?
But then, there wouldn't be anyone like me... pulled over and ticketed for running a yellow in the rain when it was definitely safer to proceed than stop. But then that poor ass town of 1300 people (why does a town that big even have a stop light?) wouldn't have had my $90. Heck, I bet a couple police officers got a nice christmas turkey out of that.
(Anyone know any small town cops? They all get turkeys as christmas bonuses.)
Countdown timers are being added to pedestrian WALK/DONT WALK signs here in Florida (some parts anyway)... so maybe the same idea could somehow migrate to the traffic lights themselves!