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Examples of traffic signal in a Sentence
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For an additional $12,000, drivers can purchase a package called Full Self-Driving that can react to traffic signals and gives the vehicles the capability to follow turn-by-turn directions on surface streets.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
According to a team at North Carolina State University, one solution may be upending the more-than-century-old design of traffic signals.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
Crews will also add new traffic signals at the westbound off-ramp at Highway 16 and Capitol Drive and replace five sets of traffic signals at other intersections.
—Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2024
Bus rapid transit is a fast and efficient transit system, often including dedicated lanes or busways and traffic signal priority.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
Separate traffic signals prioritize buses, which eliminates lingering at red lights.
—Eden Weingart, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
The impact caused a second collision, hitting 52-year-old Eckes, who was sitting on a concrete traffic signal island.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
The plan includes the replacement of traffic signals with roundabouts at as many as 12 intersections, although approvals for specific locations would require additional approvals from the Oceanside City Council and other local, regional and state agencies.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
But signs for Rivian Parkway at a new traffic signal on U.S. 278 had been removed Thursday.
—Jeff Amy, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1893, in the meaning defined above
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“Traffic signal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20signal. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
Kids Definition
traffic signal
noun
: a signal (as a traffic light) for controlling traffic
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