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UK traffic lights changed the green colour to something closer to cyan at some point for exactly this reason. (This might be an EU wide thing.)
by pja 9y ago
UK traffic lights changed the green colour to something closer to cyan at some point for exactly this reason. (This might be an EU wide thing.)
- def0wt 9y agoYes, I've seen cyan led traffic lights in Spain and France. I think that's the new norm when led lights are introduced. I'd say it's for colorblindness sake mostly. They look exactly like the Japanese lights in the article. There are also some other strange norms in Europe, as the "orange" yellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#European_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#European_standar...
- pluma 9y agoWait, it's orange? I was always attributing that to my colorblindness. This might explain why I sometimes have a hard time telling the red and yellow signals apart. Thank you!
- Tijdreiziger 9y ago'Strange' depends on your frame of reference. In my (European) country, you would be ridiculed for suggesting that the middle colour on traffic lights should be yellow instead of orange.