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	<title>Comments on: Colorblind at the Traffic Light</title>
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		<title>By: Myrtonos</title>
		<link>http://www.colblindor.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the-traffic-light/comment-page-2/#comment-109902</link>
		<dc:creator>Myrtonos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daniel, how prevelant are traffic lights in the area you do most of your driving? And under what conditions. While many variables may affect driving performance more than colour vision (such as visual acuity, depth perception and field of vision), but a colour normal person (or even one with a mild green or blue weakness) would surely have better situational awareness if all other variables are equal.

&quot;This change is dangerous especially at night when the only light a color blind person might see is the one that’s lit. You can’t tell if it’s at the top or bottom if you can’t see the other lights.&quot;

Here&#039;s a question, say you misread a traffic light at night and you are carryring passengers, one of them is also licensd to drive and let&#039;s say you are both equal in all other vairables that affect driving performance more than colour vision. Or let&#039;s say your depth perception is less than them bust still enough to be legally permitted to drive.
 Does the blame lie within the change of the position of the light or the choice of driver?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daniel, how prevelant are traffic lights in the area you do most of your driving? And under what conditions. While many variables may affect driving performance more than colour vision (such as visual acuity, depth perception and field of vision), but a colour normal person (or even one with a mild green or blue weakness) would surely have better situational awareness if all other variables are equal.</p>
<p>&#8220;This change is dangerous especially at night when the only light a color blind person might see is the one that’s lit. You can’t tell if it’s at the top or bottom if you can’t see the other lights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a question, say you misread a traffic light at night and you are carryring passengers, one of them is also licensd to drive and let&#8217;s say you are both equal in all other vairables that affect driving performance more than colour vision. Or let&#8217;s say your depth perception is less than them bust still enough to be legally permitted to drive.<br />
 Does the blame lie within the change of the position of the light or the choice of driver?</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.colblindor.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the-traffic-light/comment-page-1/#comment-109730</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, I just read all the comments above - I&#039;m not alone with this problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I just read all the comments above &#8211; I&#8217;m not alone with this problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.colblindor.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the-traffic-light/comment-page-1/#comment-109729</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody has touched on my problem. I&#039;m red-green colorblind as well, but cannot distinguish between GREEN LIGHTS and post-dusk STREET LIGHTS. 

Green traffic lights, to me, do not look *anything* close to green. At all. They look white, just light street lights.

Not a problem if all traffic lights hang over the middle of each road, but quite a few US cities, they are positioned to the right of the road between a series of street lights.

Seriously. Nobody else has this problem? I&#039;ve pondered this one for years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody has touched on my problem. I&#8217;m red-green colorblind as well, but cannot distinguish between GREEN LIGHTS and post-dusk STREET LIGHTS. </p>
<p>Green traffic lights, to me, do not look *anything* close to green. At all. They look white, just light street lights.</p>
<p>Not a problem if all traffic lights hang over the middle of each road, but quite a few US cities, they are positioned to the right of the road between a series of street lights.</p>
<p>Seriously. Nobody else has this problem? I&#8217;ve pondered this one for years.</p>
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		<title>By: Be Kind to the Color Blind &#124; JustMyLog.info</title>
		<link>http://www.colblindor.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the-traffic-light/comment-page-1/#comment-109680</link>
		<dc:creator>Be Kind to the Color Blind &#124; JustMyLog.info</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] What about Traffic Lights? &#8211; Daniel Flück writes about why traffic lights do not confuse him. Wikipedia also notes, &#8220;Usually, the red light contains some orange in its hue, and the green light contains some blue, to provide some support for people with red-green color blindness.&#8221; This explains why color blind people do not actually need to memorize the location of where green and red lights are located, especially in the dark when you cannot pinpoint the location of where a light is coming from. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] What about Traffic Lights? &#8211; Daniel Flück writes about why traffic lights do not confuse him. Wikipedia also notes, &#8220;Usually, the red light contains some orange in its hue, and the green light contains some blue, to provide some support for people with red-green color blindness.&#8221; This explains why color blind people do not actually need to memorize the location of where green and red lights are located, especially in the dark when you cannot pinpoint the location of where a light is coming from. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Anxiety Symptoms Information ·</title>
		<link>http://www.colblindor.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the-traffic-light/comment-page-1/#comment-103814</link>
		<dc:creator>Anxiety Symptoms Information ·</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if you really need to become expert in driving, your really need to enroll in a driving school &#039;.,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you really need to become expert in driving, your really need to enroll in a driving school &#8216;.,</p>
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