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Re:Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights by tripzilch on Thursday August 21, 2014 @12:48PM (#8208286)
Sometimes emergency vehicles need the ability to affect traffic lights.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this happen once (in NL), at an intersection with a very predictable traffic light sequence (some intersections use sensors, others simply follow a set pattern), an ambulance came by, sirens blaring, and the whole pattern pretty much skipped a "turn".

Re:Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights by walls on Thursday August 21, 2014 @03:58PM (#8209246)
This has historically been accomplished by sensors on the lights and emergency vehicles flashing a specific pattern, not wifi.