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An event data recorder (EDR), more specifically motor vehicle event data recorder (MVEDR), similar to an accident data recorder, (ADR) sometimes referred to informally as an automotive black box (by analogy with the common nickname for flight recorders), is a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to traffic collisions.
An LED 50-watt traffic light in Portsmouth, United KingdomTraffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa, [1] [2] Zambia, and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic.
GEE airborne equipment, with the R1355 receiver on the left and the Indicator Unit Type 62A "black box" on the right. The term "black box" was a World War II British phrase, originating with the development of radio, radar, and electronic navigational aids in British and Allied combat aircraft. These often-secret electronic devices were encased ...
The National Transportation Safety Board was able to retrieve electronic control modules, more commonly called "black boxes," from some of the five vehicles involved in a deadly crash Tuesday on ...
An early two-light traffic signal by White Horse Tavern in Hudson Street, New York. Image taken in 1961. Despite the failure of the world's first traffic light in London in 1869, countries all around the world still made traffic lights. By 1880, traffic lights spread all over the world, and it has always been like that, since then.
In some jurisdictions (such as New York City), [citation needed] there are ordinances or by-laws against "gridlocking".A motorist entering an intersection (even if on a green light) but unable to proceed and who gets stranded in the intersection (when traffic ahead fails to proceed), and who remains after the light turns red (thus blocking traffic from other directions) may be cited.
New signs and lights for accident blackspot. Eleanor Storey - Local Democracy Reporting Service. December 2, 2024 at 7:03 AM ... New signs will be put in place at a road traffic accident blackspot.
A box junction in London, pictured from atop the Monument in 1969. A box junction is a road traffic control measure designed to prevent congestion and gridlock at junctions.The surface of the junction is typically marked with a yellow criss-cross grid of diagonal painted lines (or only two lines crossing each other in the box), and vehicles may not enter the area so marked unless their exit ...