Awesome Aussie Analog Traffic Signal

We all do it: treating yellow lights like they mean ‘speed the hell up to make it through’ instead of ‘slow down’. Our modern electric traffic lights make it hard to tell how much time you have left, but this beauty from Australia shows you whether you need to hit the brakes or not.

From Gizmodo:

Instead of solid lights, the analog rotating signal shows you exactly how much time you’ve got left in a green or a red, allowing you to better time your “floor it, we can make it” so as to not run the light and get caught by the intersection cameras. It’s an easy solution that can be rigged into current light schemes by putting a countdown number in each light instead of just a solid color.

It was used between the 1940s and 1970s. Old school analog stuff was so much cooler looking than the ultra modern digital aesthetic we’ve got going on now, don’t you think?

Link [Gizmodo]

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