Engineers are exploring a future white phase on U.S. traffic lights, showing how autonomous vehicles could coordinate movement at intersections.

Red and green traffic lights have been around since the 1800s, when British traffic officers used to rotate gas lamps that burned red and green to control the movement of mostly horse-drawn vehicles.

It seems to be a universal experience for drivers that the more anxious you are to get to your destination (or the later you're running), the more likely those lights are to be red. Typically, they'll ...

Picture this: You’re stuck at a red light that seems to be taking forever. No cars are coming from the other direction, and the coast seems clear. If a red light just won’t turn green, are you ...

Imagine you’re sitting in your car at an interminable red light with no other cars on the road, and a thought pops into your head : “What if I just run the light?” Faced with an unchanging traffic ...