The traffic light is today 100 years old

Posted on 05-08-2014 at 17:56 by sir_smokalot – 19 Comments”

With all my heart!

The traffic light: he is not from our lives. Although the roundabout while an attempt was made to its hegemony, is the verkeersregelinstallatie (in the vernacular: the traffic light) is still widely available, sometimes in combination with the above-mentioned roundabout. Daily, we are regularly for the red silent, a great opportunity to take your Facebook/whatsapp to check in, or what portals to blow away for those who Ingress plays.

Exactly 100 years ago, on August 5, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, the first electronic traffic lights in operation, so reports NRCQ. James High was the inventor, he had in his life, not for hate mail from traffic officers who by him had become unemployed and had to fear, only decades later were the lights automated. For comedians like Herman Finkers, the tricolour also, for a lot of inspiration.

The first traffic light made its debut here in Rotterdam, in 1926. About the sense and nonsense of traffic lights will always be debate remain: the experience, which is absolutely irregular busy crossings are not, by definition, to accidents leads, but that also depends on whether you’re used or not. We would be in the Netherlands the lights outside, then I will give you a note that there are many chunks to be used.

In the meantime, there is plenty of experimentation to the flow of traffic by traffic lights as efficiently as possible, to make: Audi and other parties to put in on as little as possible, stand still, and also we have more and more in ‘aftelsystemen’ that indicate when it turns green again.

Or the traffic light (in this or other form), also his 200th birthday? We dare not say: with autonomous cars would be the things superfluous.