As vehicle technology shifts, another important mode of transportation may also change. The advent of self-driving cars may put an end to the history of red, yellow and green traffic lights, which have been in place since 1914. AP.
The spread of self-driving cars may necessitate the introduction of a fourth signal. At least that is what a research team from North Carolina State University, Ali Hajibabai, the head of the team, said. Through the light of the fourth indicator, other cars will show motorists that a self-driving car is driving them, and if it lights up, that is enough. To follow only the car in front of us: for self-driving cars, as well as for all drivers, this means that control of the car must be handed over at specified moments.
“According to our concept, the computers of the autonomous vehicles would be controlling intersections in what we call the white light section, which would also tell people what to do. Red would still mean no, green would still mean free, while That white light will simply tell people to follow the car in front of them.
So turning on the white light would signal to self-driving cars that they can use their systems to drive without other disturbing and uncertain factors, while drivers of conventional vehicles would know that they can simply rely on the car's signals and behavior. In front of them. If there is a majority of human-controlled vehicles at the designated intersection, the system will simply switch back to the traditional red-yellow-green trio.
We still have to wait for the new system, in which the percentage of self-driving cars is supposed to reach 40-50 percent.
