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In 1917, the first interconnected traffic signal system was installed in Salt Lake City, with six connected intersections controlled simultaneously from a manual switch. [3]: 32 In 1920, the first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit, Michigan.
William Potts (May 1883 – 1947) was a Detroit police officer who is credited with inventing the modern, three-lens traffic light in Detroit in 1920. (A gas-powered, two-lens, red/green traffic signal was invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, though after a short test installation, traffic lights were not seen again in the U.K. until 1929.) [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. Signaling device to control competing flows of traffic This article is about lights used for signalling. For other uses, see Traffic light (disambiguation). "Stoplight" redirects here. For other uses, see Stoplight (disambiguation). An LED 50- watt traffic light in Portsmouth, United ...
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According to the N.C. Department of Transportation, on average, converting intersections into four-way stops — also called “all-way stops” — results in a 68% reduction in total crashes ...
William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858 – December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
The first crows nest traffic tower in the US was installed at the intersection of Woodward and Michigan avenues in Detroit on October 9, 1917. The tower elevated a police officer above the center of the intersection to direct traffic before it was replaced in October 1920 with the world's first four-way traffic light. [65]