{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/red-light-white-light-scientists-suggest-adding-4th-color-to-traffic-lights-to-help-self-driving-cars/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Red light, white light? Scientists suggest adding 4th color to traffic lights to help self-driving cars","slug":"red-light-white-light-scientists-suggest-adding-4th-color-to-traffic-lights-to-help-self-driving-cars","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:56.107937","publishDate":"2023-02-08 14:46:27+00:00","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://studyfinds.org/4th-traffic-light-self-driving-car/"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University propose adding a fourth color to traffic lights, a white light, enabling self-driving vehicles to help control traffic flow, and let human drivers in on what’s going on.\nAcross a series of computational simulations, study authors found that adding this fourth white light significantly improved travel time through intersections and reduced fuel consumption.\n“The white phase concept also incorporates a new traffic signal, so that human drivers know what they are supposed to do.\nAnd white lights will tell human drivers to simply follow the car in front of them.”How would a 4th traffic light work?\n“For example, ports see high volumes of commercial vehicle traffic, for which traffic flow is particularly important.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"red-light-white-light-scientists-suggest-adding-4th-color-to-traffic-lights-to-help-self-driving-cars"}}}