If you’ve seen talk about a white traffic light or images of a signal with an unfamiliar fourth color, you’re not imagining it. With everything drivers already pay attention to at intersections, ...

Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal in 1923, but Detroit cop William Potts brought the three-light traffic signal to ...

Red and green traffic lights have been around since the 1800s, when British traffic officers used to rotate gas lamps that burned red and green to control the movement of mostly horse-drawn vehicles.

The concept of the traffic light actually dates all the way back to the 1860s, where gas-lit signals were placed on the posh streets that lined the Houses of Parliament in London. Of course, back then ...