Re: ENRADD - Electronic Non Radar Device

[Igor Kessel <four_rings@worldnet.att.net>]

Brendan/Coolian wrote:
> 
> >The green light blinks four times with the frequency of 1Hz before
> >turning red hence giving you the additional, so needed 5 sec for the
> 
> Canada has this (specifically, Montreal and the West Island)

Mmmm, not exactly. The Quebec green lights blink twice or thrice as fast
and signify the opposite:
They start blinking not before the red but after it and tell you that
you can go in any direction as the remaining three directions have a
steady red.

In Europe that would be signified by the single traffic light:
1. Central light, main direction - green
2. Left sectional arrow - green
3. Right sectional arrow - green

BTW, do Euro-style sectioned traffic lights with arrows exist anywhere
in the USA? All I've seen so far were gazillions of individual traffic
lights hanging above each lane with separate 3-unit lights for turns
making the intersections look like Christmas trees with stupid sighs
like: "left turn light" etc. Confusing.

The most self obvious and easy to understand traffic lights are IMO in
Leningrad.
They have the main three-light vertical section and one or two
sectionals on either side like everywhere in Europe. But what makes them
unique is that the side section does not work in the standard fashion
when it shows either the green arrow or is off, but it rather shows
either the green arrow or a red neon circle. Absolutely fool-proof. No
confusion.

Oh, one more thing which is a big contributor to accidents in the
intersections around here: traffic lights are placed after the
intersections, not before them like in Europe. For someone who was born
and raised as a driver in Europe and has this "stop at the traffic
light" rule deeply engraved in his subconsiosness, driving through an
intersection at night if the white stop line is not painted and if the
intersection is of a rural variety without curbs and sidewalks having
the traffic light after the intersection is an invitation for
overshooting the intersection on red. Don't ask me how I know this.

-- 
Igor Kessel
Two turbo quattros.