[FWP] Traffic Signals Should be Rationalized

[Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>]

=head1 TITLE

Traffic Signals Should be Rationalized

=head1 VERSION

  Maintainer: Marb Groddinus <mjd@perl.com>
  Date: 28 Aug 2000
  Version: 1
  Mailing List: perl6-auto
  Number: 57

=head1 ABSTRACT

Traffic signals should be changed from their present red, yellow, and
green colors to blue, teal, and orange, respectively.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Traffic signal devices themselves are frequently yellow.  This lack of
orthogonality frequently confuses beginners who wonder why one of the lamps
is the same color as the device itself but the other two are not.  My
proposal removes this difficulty by changing the yellow light to a
teal light.

Furthermore, the essential relationship between 'stop' and 'slow down,
stop impending'  is emphasized by the new system because blue and
teal appear very similar.  In the old system these lights were red
and yellow and there was nothing about this that suggested the natural
relationship to the beginning driver.

In the old system 'stop' and 'go' were opposite colors; my proposal
preserves this property by making them blue and orange.

=head1 IMPLEMENTATION

Existing traffic signals would not need to be discarded.  All that is
necessary is to change the glass lenses over the lamps.

=head1 REFERENCES

RFC 33, "There should be another signal after 'stop' and before 'go'."



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