Red and green traffic lights have been around since the 1800s, when British traffic officers used to rotate gas lamps that burned red and green to control the movement of mostly horse-drawn vehicles.

Every car speeding by and person crossing the street is living out their own story, traveling in their own direction, under the same three-light system. We encounter traffic lights nearly every day, ...

As cars and trucks get smarter and more connected, the humble lights that have controlled the flow of traffic for more than a century could also be on the cusp of a major transformation. Researchers ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Perhaps nothing is more frustrating for drivers than mistimed lights during their commute, and a new study suggests that artificial intelligence could fix this. Frank Chaput, a driver, ...

They might be vertical, they might be horizontal, but otherwise, traffic lights have hardly changed in a hundred years. Red means stop, yellow means slow down, and green means go, a universal code ...

Smarter vehicles could mean some of the most dramatic changes for the traditional traffic signal since the yellow light was added more than a century ago As cars and trucks get smarter and more ...

As cars and trucks get smarter and more connected, the humble lights that have controlled the flow of traffic for more than a century could also be on the cusp of a major transformation. Researchers ...