‘Bad crying and laughing’ because the signal lights ’cause confusion’ for pedestrians

April 22, 2022 14:33 GMT+7

Traffic light signal poles are always placed in an easy-to-see position to regulate traffic flow in different directions. Usually accompanied by a signal light, there is also a countdown timer for convenient traffic.

However, there are light poles in some positions that make viewers feel “confused”, “disoriented”.

The clip that is spreading on social networks captures the image of a traffic light pole located at the intersection of Song Cong, Thai Nguyen, attracting the attention of netizens.

Instead of standing on the sidewalk, the roadside is clean, the lamp post grows among the thousands of trees, hiding under the interlaced vines. All the green, red, and yellow lights have been covered by vines, only the top countdown timer box appears to help pedestrians see the color and time to comply.

The clip quickly spread throughout social networking groups, attracting tens of thousands of comments from netizens. Some people commented extremely funny:

“Green technology is rare in other countries that can do that”;

“Being friendly with nature, greening is good, this model needs to be replicated so that pedestrians don’t dare to go quickly through intersections because they still have to guess what color the lights are before going there”;

“It’s true that you can’t see the clip until you see it, how can you see when you’re driving?”.

Not only has a talent for makeup, some traffic light poles have a countdown timer, but they do not follow the logic that makes the number of passersby “mistake” because of the habit of waiting for the red light to count to zero to start the car. .

This is a lamp post in Phu Xa ward, Thai Nguyen city, Thai Nguyen province. The countdown timer here has 2 positions on the horizontal bar and below the vertical column, suitable for people to observe from different angles. However, the display time of the two clocks is different, making passersby do not know where to follow.

And below is a clip recording the situation when the traffic light pole is “uneven from above” causing pedestrians to fall into a situation of violating traffic laws.

The red car, when looking at the countdown to zero on the light pole, hurriedly drove away without waiting for the green light. Meanwhile, the light signal after counting to 0 will continue to red for another 10 seconds before turning green.

Let’s not talk about the red car stopping beyond the prescribed line. But if this car is fined for not complying with traffic lights, is it correct? That is what netizens argue.

“If you haven’t turned the green light yet, it’s wrong to move. Even if the light counts 200 seconds and red again, you still have to wait for green to go”:

“3 green, then 3 red, run. Experience has been drawn by the driver, trying to comply with both not breaking the law and being safe. Because often these last seconds each side takes advantage of the accelerator, easy to happen. had an accident”;

“Due to the fault of the lights being flickered, the lack of inspection by the transport side caused this ironic situation”;

Lam Giang; Clip: MXH