Something the tech industry fails to notice is that cars are not the only road users—-let alone the only ones that use traffic lights. As a pedestrian (or, whe

Something the tech industry fails to notice is that cars are not the only road users—-let alone the only ones that use traffic lights. As a pedestrian (or, when I was younger, a cyclist), I relied on traffic lights as much as (if not more than) pedestrian crossings to tell me when it was safe to proceed. Removing lights and signage may seem like a "simplifying" or "efficiency" measure to vehicle manufacturers, but it's creating a hostile and/or dangerous environment for other classes of road user ... not all of whom can afford, or can use, some variety of AR system to supplement their merely human senses. Yes, there's a role for V2V signaling: but as a supplement to—not a replacement for—existing traffic control mechanisms.