"There is a tendency - when it comes to changing behavior in realms where behavior change is difficult - to always favor putting it off until the future."

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In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.

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Nonetheless, the programme's collapse might kill off hopes of changing of Turkish society more profoundly.

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