Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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bell88@hotbot.com (Shiva Nataraja) wrote:

>>Many years ago i came up with an idea for transponder-
>>controlled traffic lights 
>
>TRANSPONDER controlled? You mean I need a transponder in my car to
>make the light turn green for me?

Actually, many cities use a strobe detector on the light for emergency vehicle
use. Put one on your car and you never see a red light...

Don't recall the required flash rate though.

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