Railroad and Locomotive Engineering noted that conductors also mistook the white lights, when intended to be white, for other signals and vice versa. It's easy to see why, too.

However, the color white was easily confused since street lamps used white lights. Since then, the universal color for “go” has been green. International use of traffic lights ...

‘The white phase concept incorporates a new traffic signal, so that human drivers know what they are supposed to do,’ he said. ‘Red lights will still mean stop. Green lights will still mean go.

Sometimes we sail past green lights, and sometimes we hit every red light on our commute to work. There are a few reasons why the colors red, yellow and green were chosen for traffic lights.

Traffic lights haven’t changed much in the U.S. over the years. Cleveland debuted what is considered the first “municipal traffic control system” in 1914, historian Megan Kate Nelson wrote ...

Researchers are exploring ways to use features in modern cars, such as GPS, to make traffic safer and more efficient. Eventually, the upgrades could do away entirely with the red, yellow and green ...

Before we’re old enough to even see over the dashboard, we learn that green means go and red means stop. This internationally ...

Danielle Deneau, director of traffic safety at the Road Commission in Oakland County, Michigan, said the initial data in Birmingham only adjusted the timing of green lights by a few seconds, but ...

We see traffic lights all the time. Sometimes we sail past green lights, and sometimes we hit every red light on our commute to work. There are a few reasons why the colors red, yellow and green ...

(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… ...

The yellow light didn’t enter the scene until the 1920s. William Potts, who was a police officer in Detroit, is credited with designing the first three- and four-way colored traffic lights.