As the traffic light at the intersection turned green, Francis stepped up to the crowd, grasping outstretched hands.

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She thought she had a chance to make the light at the intersection of NASA Road One and Space Center Boulevard, but the driver in front of her maddeningly decelerated as he answered his cell phone, and now he had come to a full stop while the turn arrow was still yellow.

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As the light changed at the intersection of Forty-fourth Street and Seventh Avenue, a large truck, racing to beat the red, knocked her down.

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It looks like Bucchere entered the intersection just as the light turned red.

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As you approach the intersection, the traffic light above flashes yellow and you softly ease your foot onto the brake, coming to a nice, easy stop.

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When a GPS-equipped bus approaches an intersection, it can, as before, take over the intersection's traffic light, but the computer can also calculate its expected time of arrival and decide either to extend a green light or shorten a red light.

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He was even able to tap into police cameras monitoring an intersection in Texas for red light runners.

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How often have you cursed the traffic gods, accelerated through an already yellow light or honked at left turners blocking the intersection?

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