"I know that's a bad idea, " he said sheepishly, adding he usually tries to limit glances to stoplights.

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Video cameras will look for stoplights that have turned red and for children who are running toward the road.

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The nearest town is Eden, a tiny community of ranchers and farmers with a trading post, a Mexican restaurant and zero stoplights.

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Isaac has left its mark in the form of downed trees, curbs covered in branches and other detritus, a few twisted stoplights and bent signs.

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In a city where many drivers take stoplights as mere suggestions and the person with the right of way tends to be the bigger or gutsier, cycling can be a harrowing endeavour.

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Cars would alert each other of traffic jams and accidents while also talking to stoplights and other transportation infrastructure, alerting drivers and perhaps one day taking over the controls themselves.

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Its 113 horsepower engine feels slightly anemic in this age of 200 horsepower sedans, but it's perfectly serviceable as long as you don't have a fondness for jackrabbit starts at stoplights.

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Bhutan, about the size of Iowa and with a population roughly equal to El Paso, Texas, is a place where there are zero stoplights, only three dentists and where TV appeared about a decade ago.

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