Each is signified by an icon and a light-up dot, although you'll need to recall which dot is which in low-light settings, as the icons themselves remain unlit.

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The team also showed how a large number of light pipes could be used to form a kind of dot matrix display.

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Yet the U.S. DOT seems to have made clear that there will be no dollars for light rail in Detroit.

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