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What I find quite ironic is that traffic lights happen to lie right in the centre of the most common form of color blindness: red-green color blindness.
by srean 16y ago
What I find quite ironic is that traffic lights happen to lie right in the centre of the most common form of color blindness: red-green color blindness.
- waqf 16y agoWhat I find quite ironic is that the UK's effort to combat this problem, by adding a blue tint to their green lights, actually makes it more dangerous for people with my form of colour blindness (protan, which is not the commonest form of red-green blindness but is still significantly represented (2% of males according to Wikipedia)). That's because having little red vision, at night I mistake cyan ("green") go lights for white street lights. Having street lights suddenly turn to yellow stop lights is unnerving, to say the least.
- neilk 16y agoWhen I was a kid, in Quebec, traffic lights were color-blind friendly; they used shapes and color and orientation. They arranged the lights horizontally, like this: [R] <Y> (G) [R] For stop, you'd get two red squares. Wait was a yellow diamond usually on the left side, and go was a simple green circle on the right side. If you could only go in a few directions, they'd list them out with green arrows. Seemed like a great system to me but I don't see it in use as much any more. Perhaps it was too expensive to manufacture custom lights for just one province.