How Traffic Lights Decide Whose Turn It Is
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How does a traffic light know you are waiting—and why might it keep you waiting anyway? Follow one quiet evening's request from a sensor beneath the road to a cabinet of carefully timed decisions, then along an avenue of neighboring signals. A gently curious bedtime tour of the city's patient choreography.
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This episode was published on October 4, 2026.
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