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More Advanced Sinage/Lights - Stop Signs, Traffic Lights, Hazards, Emergency Vehicles

Mar 26, 2024
3 min read
There should be an update in our signs other than lumi-pant, and that should be in their logical aspects such as new types of signs themselves. Traffic lights are also long overdue for an evolution.

One idea I had was for a different stop sign for two-way stops that could be yellow instead of red, with two-way written on it, like it is below an all-way stop. Another idea I thought about was the Stop/Yield sign, which could be used in less busy neighborhoods where there is only a single stop sign...the stop/yield would allow drivers to assess if there was no traffic and allow a driver to treat the sign as a yield sign, meaning that a rolling stop could be performed...but if there was traffic, the driver would treat the sign as a stop sign. Such a thing would be easy to push through litigation due to the amount of gas and vehicle wear that would save annually, as well as a hefty amount of paper tickets...if we made it look like a triangle behind a circle, it would be golden.

AI camera systems could also be used at stop-sign intersections to flash a red/green cue to drivers to let them know who's turn it is.  A cube with 4 lights should be suspended with cameras connected to a high speed AI system, with laws instructing drivers better on how to use it to aid in the stop sign process, such as how to still use an intersection when the system might be malfunctioning.  

Traffic signal lights should be totally modernized, with high output OLED flat panels able to display words as well as lights, such as warnings that emergency vehicles are coming through from behind, etc. Instead of three lights, these would be one big huge light across...they could be made smaller than the standard traffic light yet still output twice as much or more than each of the old lights, in the end saving costs and weight. In fact, they might have to be weighted on the bottom to keep still in the wind.

Emergency lights on vehicles should be upgraded as well.  There should be a separate light for emergency hazards which could be the same green lights that have been put on some emergency vehicles recently  Trust me, when I saw the new green lights on the emergency vehicles in Austin that just flashed like the others, I knew that our government needed a major rework.  Why in the world would we put another color of light on our emergency vehicles at the tune of millions of dollars that does the exact same thing as the other lights?  Like I said in the Article "The NBE Clause" in The CORE section, we might not want to know the answer.  The fact of the matter is that we could turn a step back into two steps forward if we roll with it...let green lights be the new hazards and yellow lights just turn signals for vehicles to come, with older vehicles hazards to still be recognized...which creates more of a logical separation, making it more organized and therefore timesaving in the end, and now we can have turn signals for emergency vehicles when their emergency lights are on too, which is not an option now.  An ambulance or cop car able to signal its intent to turn well would reduce fatalities and injuries, but especially would save alot of frivolous personal injury claims and repair bills, keeping us all richer and wicked lawyers and back injury fakers down! 

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