He continues: ‘Rijkswaterstaat generally applies red waiting to prevent vehicles approaching the intersection at very high speed and then unexpectedly colliding with a vehicle from a conflicting direction that has ignored the red light. It turns out that the most serious accidents take place during the quiet hours, precisely because it is then possible to drive fast.’
Reader Ralph Seesing also responds to this topic. He writes: ‘As modern traffic lights are connected to the internet (so-called iVRIs) and eventually all vehicles too, detection can be detected much earlier in the near future. This means that different vehicles can get green and others red, even at night.’
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