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It shouldn’t. Yellow lights are supposed to last an amount of time based on the speed limit at that section so this doesn’t happen.

Traffic simulations are generally quite complex. In your proposal, if your approach is not detected correctly, you either stop traffic for a car which isn’t there, or you never stop traffic for a car which is there.

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I would love to learn more about traffic simulations they use. I saw some software traffic simulators in college and they looked nice but in no way included real-world driving.

It’s hard to imagine, given how bad traffic is, that our streets were planned by sophisticated computer simulations. There’s one place near me where it can take nearly an hour to go 3 blocks during rush hour, due to people blocking the box. Do simulations take that into account?

As I've said before, I think traffic engineering is probably the most intellectually dishonest profession there is, at least in America.

Oh man wait until you learn about machine learning where they don’t even have a real world result to compare it to

You mean... unsupervised machine learning? That doesn’t feel intellectually dishonest to me

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