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Originally Posted by MeredithMan
"Green means go; yellow means speed up; red means you have 2 seconds left..."
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Interesting fact; When traffic lights first came out all there was on the light were yellow and green lights -- no such thing as a yellow light.
In 1923 a Police Officer had the idea that a yellow light between the red and the green might make sense, got the patent, and eventually sold it to General Electric, and hence we have the traffic lights we see today (red, yellow + green).
Interesting fact: NYC was loaded with the old fashioned traffic lights that contained only red and green. Some of these lights were still in use until the late 1960's or early 1970's and I remembered them as a youngster. It is interesting to look at movies actually filmed on site in New York City in the 1950's and 1960's and you will see many of these old red and green traffic signals still in existence back then.
Today, the red and green lights no longer exist anywhere, and every light everywhere contains a red, yellow and green.
Please obey the traffic lights and drive carefully.