At one point, Los Angeles had over 100 cameras to catch red-light runners. Then the city tore ’em all out. Here’s why.
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Some stop lights are broken. Even if every corner had a red-light camera, many people would still run red lights. Here are the three toolkits...
Red-light cameras seem to magically know when a driver runs a red light. Here’s how engineers build real technology to take pictures of cars...
Middle-of-the-block crosswalks are terrible. Most do not qualify for a stop light. I meet the inventor of the Pedestrian Hybrid (HAWK) beacon, a...
Raised medians reduce left turns which prevents crashes (and saves lives). But cities only block left turns for some businesses and not others. How...
Traffic travels in both directions. So it makes sense we’d have a malicious moniker for two-way left turn lanes (TWLTLs). Are they actually...