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Re:Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights by Swizec on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @08:21PM (#8205371)
Exactly. If you observe carefully, you'll notice that at night, when there's less traffic/pedestrians, most of those lights turn into green waves for anyone driving at or slightly above the speed limit.

Allowing green waves in a high traffic, high pedestrian downtown area would be lunacy.

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Re:Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights by siculars on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @09:59PM (#8205628)
NYC does exactly this. Green waves along the avenues to a certain point. Then 10 block chunks of green. Different approaches for different districts.
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