Cars that drive themselves are no longer just a concept you'd see in sci-fi movies imagining the near future. Companies like Waymo are already using self-driving cars, and you can ride in a robotaxi ...
Traffic engineers are quietly working on a radical idea: adding a white signal to the familiar red, yellow, and green. Instead of signaling drivers directly, the extra light would tell humans when to ...
You may have noticed some traffic lights with a white light that works independently of the others. They're not for normal cars; here's what they're for.