In the US you find those countdown-timer displays at the
pedestrian crossings posts, not at the traffic lights. Normally these timers can tell you when the green light is showing up at your lane within 5 seconds or less.
Considering how messed up drivers in this country drive, putting a timer at traffic lights will incite speeding to beat the light and thus crashes. The same messed up collateral effect of traffic cameras inciting rear-end crashes by people hitting the brakes like wild animals when the yellow light shows up.
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Originally Posted by ShocknAwe
In many other countries the lights have a countdown physically on them showing time remaining on red and green. It works really well.
No idea why the US DOT doesn't do that.
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