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No they’re not “coming”:

NC State University: “Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars“ (2023) [1]

> The researchers acknowledge that AVs are not ready to adopt the new distributed computing approach tomorrow, nor are governments going to install brand new traffic lights at every intersection in the immediate future.

[1] https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/02/traffic-light-for-autonomous-c...



Not to mention, who will pay to replace current lights ? Doing that is not cheap. So, I doubt we will ever see that.




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