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Reader's Digest (of all things) has an article about this that claims their traffic light name is originally an artifact of Japanese words for color but in the
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Reader's Digest (of all things) has an article about this that claims their traffic light name is originally an artifact of Japanese words for color but in the 70s the government actually shifted the lights towards blue to match the word. https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/ https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
- Jiro 5y agoThere's also the problem that people have red-green color blindness, but not red-blue color blindness. Having the light be blue enough that color blind people can tell the difference makes sense.