Countdown Stoplight Brings Fun to Traffic Control
We love Damjan Stankovic’s tweaked stop-light design, which brings a little bit of Disney to traffic control. The lamp has a countdown timer which ticks away by blipping out a ring of 32 segments around the edge of the light. This expectation management is exactly what you’ll see at a theme-park ride — signs to tell you how long you have left to wait on line, for example.
Stankovic’s concept design works in so many ways, aside from just pacifying waiting drivers. It tells cyclists that the light is in fact still working, and that the metal-detecting sensor which turns it green hasn’t missed their little bike, for example. It also acts as a warning for pedestrians who insist on crossing as their own green man starts to blink.
The single problem we see, though, is that it could also act as a dragster-style countdown for motorbikes that like to race off the lights. Here in Barcelona, moto riders watch the lights on the crossroad - or even the pedestrian lights - and take off when those start to flash, even when their own light is still red. As even the cops do this, and don’t seem to care that everyone else does the same, this countdown stop-light might just make things even more dangerous for pedestrians.
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Stankovic’s concept design works in so many ways, aside from just pacifying waiting drivers. It tells cyclists that the light is in fact still working, and that the metal-detecting sensor which turns it green hasn’t missed their little bike, for example. It also acts as a warning for pedestrians who insist on crossing as their own green man starts to blink.
The single problem we see, though, is that it could also act as a dragster-style countdown for motorbikes that like to race off the lights. Here in Barcelona, moto riders watch the lights on the crossroad - or even the pedestrian lights - and take off when those start to flash, even when their own light is still red. As even the cops do this, and don’t seem to care that everyone else does the same, this countdown stop-light might just make things even more dangerous for pedestrians.
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