Traffic Lights for the Color Blind
This isn’t exactly motorcycle news, it’s goes more into the road safety category, but it’s interesting because three designers have come up with this brilliant idea, called UniSignal to help color blind riders and drivers (about 8% of the male popolation has color deficiency problems) have an easier time with traffic signals.
Instead of using round shapes for all three lights, the red light becomes a triangle, the yellow light stays round and the green becomes a square, this makes identification a much easier task for those who have problems identifying red and green.
Source | yankodesign.com
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NR
15 Jul 2010 - 09:57 - #1That’s silly, the red light is always on top, or did I miss something?
sk55408
07 Feb 2012 - 22:13 - #2Let me make sure I’ve got this right: the triangle that looks like an arrow pointing up/forward mans “stop?” That’s um, interesting.
@NR there are a number of places where traffic lights are sideways (parallel with the cross member holding the light over the street.) This is where I think these different shapes would be most useful.