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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by the-dude on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:33AM (#15748527)
In South Africa traffic lights are called robots.
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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:08PM (#15750073)
Many traffic lights around the world use buried loops of wire as Hall effect sensors (for example, to register when a car is waiting to make a left turn). So that would pass the sense-think-act test, I'd say, even without considering Smart Traffic Lights[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_traffic_light

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