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Originally Posted by zamler
How can a countdown timer possibly make things less safe?
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It doesn't. If you use the pedestrian timer when you are driving an automobile, the pedestrian timer not consistently indicating the end of the green phase would indeed be annoying because that timer is for pedestrians and not automobiles.
That article, like the one posted earlier, also cites the reason why countdown timers for vehicles are far less feasible in the US/Canada; the bottom line is that severely hampering our fully actuated signals by way of countdown timers would reduce the efficiency of our road network to a degree that would never be acceptable. Yeah, I have no interest in spending far more time sitting at intersections waiting as 5 second gap outs are extended to 15-20 seconds so that drivers can get a countdown because they're scared of the dilemma zone.