scott wrote:
> So, you make the yellow phase last long enough to cross the entire 
> junction at the slowest speed you can imagine for that junction?

No. If you're going *that* slow, it's easier to stop. You make it long 
enough to get through going at the slowest speed where it would be 
unsafe to try to stop. :-)

> In China I saw a few lights where they had a big 7-segment countdown 
> timer above the lights, looked like a pretty cool idea, well it would 
> have been if they paid any attention to the lights in the first place :-)

Yeah. I'm rather surprised there's any Chinese people left alive, with 
the way they do traffic there. :-)

"That's our hotel on the left."
    "Then why did the taxi driver pull into the right-turn-only lane?"
"The line's shorter."

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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