On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, olists wrote:

> I was pleasantly surprised to find traffic lights that worked in "reverse"
> in Germany last October. How logical to let you know the light is about to
> turn green by going from red to yellow to green. I guess this just makes too
> much sense for the litigation happy U.S.A.?

Well, consider that in Germany a majority of cars still have manual
transmissions.  Maybe the yellow phase before the green is to give
everyone a chance to put their foot on the clutch again and shift out of
neutral. :)

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