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Published online 3 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041129-12
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Beating the lights
Traffic lights that respond to local conditions could ease congestion.
Have you ever wished, as you sat at a red light, that you had the power to switch it to green? A traffic researcher is proposing that giving motorists precisely this power could improve the efficiency of city roads.
The catch (there had to be a catch) is that this control wouldn't be handed over to individual drivers.
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