How a Fourth Traffic Light Colour Could Help Ease Our Transition to Self-Driving Cars

How a Fourth Traffic Light Colour Could Help Ease Our Transition to Self-Driving CarsDevelopment of self-driving technology seems to have slowed down due to the complexity of navigating human-driven traffic. The tricolour electronic traffic light has existed since 1914, and the colour scheme is used the world over. Traffic lights would enter a “white phase” when coordinating AVs through traffic. The lack of traffic light colour would also indicate to human drivers that autonomous vehicles are being controlled. “The white phase concept also incorporates a new traffic signal, so that human drivers know what they are supposed to do.