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What color light would you add to a traffic light and what would it mean?

Asked by blueiiznh (16698points) June 16th, 2011

So you are the new head of traffic engineering.

What color light would you add to your new design traffic signal and what would it mean?

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Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Brown. It means eat shit and die for all the friggin lousy drivers out there. Jesus christ, stay in your lane, don’t pull out when I’m 50 feet away, and go when the light turns green.

picante's avatar

Orange—the perfect blend of yellow and red. And it means that you can no longer assume that you should proceed through the intersection—yes, I teased you with that silly yellow . . . I’m about to bring out the red dog . . . so it’s really, really time to stop now. I mean it.

erichw1504's avatar

Pink – the driver must kiss the person in the passenger’s seat. Yeah, that’s right, no matter who it is. Nobody there? Then blow yourself a kiss in the rear view mirror.

JLeslie's avatar

I like in the UK they use red and yellow, or I think they call it red and orange, at the same time to let approaching traffic know it is about to turn green.

I would change the red and green to different colors since so many men are red green color blind. Maybe blue and brown.

LuckyGuy's avatar

I’d add a white cross in the red light and have that flash when an emergency vehicle is heading to the intersection. The signal would mean “Pull over so the ambulance can get through!”

jonsblond's avatar

Blue. Moon the driver in the car next to you.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Oh oh… Just realized this was in social.

Purple. For “Pedestrians your free time is up. Get out of the way.”

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@worriedguy I like the idea about the emergency vehicles. I think that has some real merit.

ucme's avatar

Pink, it would be accompanied by a girly voice giving the following command…
“Ooh, look at her trying to jump the lights. Get back bitch before I scratch your bloody eyes out!!”

john65pennington's avatar

If for some reason the traffic light is out at an intersection, have rolled up flag, that automatically falls and warns motorists to treat the intersection as a four-way stop.

Everyone knows to do this, don’t they???

JLeslie's avatar

@john65pennington Great suggestion! Amazing how many people really don’t know. Especially if the intersection has a major road and a minor road. I think they expect the major road to have the theoretical flashing yellow, and the side road to be a flashing red? That is how it seems anyway. I have been through many a days with multiple lights out during the aftermath of a hurricane. The scariest situation is blowing through an intersection not even realizing there was an intersection there at all.

mazingerz88's avatar

Rainbow color, to remind people there is so much reason out there to be happy about and also to drive defensively.

Russell_D_SpacePoet's avatar

I would add a disco light. When it came on at the intersection everyone has to get out and dance…

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