electrical controls to make the world’s first 4-way three color traffic light. It was installed in 1920 on the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit. Within a year‚ Detroit had installed a total of fifteen of the new automatic lights. THE STORY RELATED INFO BOOKS WEB SITES DID YOU KNOW? Invention: Traffic Light Function: noun / trsffic signal / stoplight Definition: A road signal for directing vehicular traffic by means of colored lights‚ typically red for stop‚ green for
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) defines aggressive driving as "the operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger persons or property"a traffic and not a criminal offense like road rage. Examples include speeding or driving too fast for conditions‚ improper lane changing‚ tailgating and improper passing. Approximately 6‚800‚000 crashes occur in the United States each year; a substantial number are estimated to be caused by aggressive driving
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Traffic Jam Beginning Men have stepped on the moon. Now they are going from one place to another within few hours. World fastest car is able to sprint 252mph‚ but the citizens of Dhaka (sometimes) cannot reach few miles to Gulistan from Mohakhali or any other place to our destination place within hours. You must go out from your house before two or three hours to reach destination which is only 20 or 30 minutes required. Who is responsible for this? Traffic jam is that magician. Traffic jam has
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Many people in the economy today should be aware of distractions that cause most common traffic accidents. Most traffic accidents are caused by the use of the cell phone‚ the use of the car system‚ and the way the driver feels while driving a vehicle. The most common traffic accidents are caused by distractions. First‚ the most common traffic accident is the use of the cell phone while driving. While driving‚ answering a phone call could be troublesome. For example‚ Someone calls‚ then the driver
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Cause and affect Traffic Problems Traffics have many problems in the crowded cities. Do you know that many people died because of traffic jams? Many people don’t think of this issue and this is a problem also‚ because that let this issue continues. Traffic problems are one of the most problems in the big cities .There are many reasons that traffic become an issue‚ one of them that is many trucks drives in the same small cars’ lanes another one that is most people have their own cars‚ and the
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News. Bangkok’s traffic problem has been getting worse since the government introduced a policy to refund tax for first-time car buyers. Coupled with the Thai aspiration to own a car and get some status‚ this policy has resulted in five million vehicles in a city which can only cope with less than two million cars. Once I got into a jam in downtown Bangkok‚ when I spent almost two hours moving less than a kilometre. Sometimes‚ my colleagues have arrived at work up to four hours late. I think the
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Traffic jam is a common sight in big cities like Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Calcutta etc. This is due to increasing population of the metropolitan cities. People from far off places rush towards big cities to earn as big cities have many options and possibilities for them. Then there are permanent citizens also. So with the human traffic‚ vehicular traffic also increases. As the standard of living is becoming high everyone wants to purchase his own car. This movement of more and more cars adds fuel to the fire
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vehicles which lead to serious traffic congestion problems. This places a greater demand on operating roadway systems with maximum efficiency. One major factor that affects the traffic flow is the management of the traffic at road intersections. Hence a good traffic management system is needed to maximize the efficiency of the traffic flow. “Traffic Signal” mainly controls the traffic at various junctions. This is specialized software designed to control heavy traffic very easily by changing the lights
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No one wants to reach their destination late but reaching late due to traffic is a common problem in UAE.There is a lot of debate going on in my country about how do the government solve the traffic problem InUAE. There are many reasons due to which they are lot of accidents occuring as gas prices are highthere is an increase in car ownership. Government should take important steps to resolve this problem. My country is very over populated there is a lot of income in the UAE which means
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sTraffic lights‚ also known as traffic signals‚ traffic lamps‚ signal lights‚ robots in South Africa[1] and‚ in the past‚ semaphores‚[2] are signalling devices positioned at road intersections‚ pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic. Traffic lights were first installed in 1868 in London[3] and are now used all over the world. Traffic lights alternate the right of way accorded to road users by displaying lights of a standard color (red‚ yellow/amber‚ and green)
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