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Driving at random, without regard for or consideration of other vehicles on the road, could cause chaos and accidents, with potentially disastrous results. Here come the traffic lights, which serve as the roads organisers. Read history of traffic lights.

TRAFFIC lights were first used before the cars we most associate them with today even existed.Signalling lights were used on railways during the 19th

BBC Science Focus Magazine In this extract from We, Robots, we journey into the past, experience the present, and ponder the future of science fiction, and of artificial intelligence. It appeared near the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 9 Decem­ber 1868. It looked for all the world like a railway signal: a revolving gas-powered lantern with a red and a green light at the end of a swivelling wooden arm. Advertisement Its purposes seemed benign, and we obeyed its instructions will­ingly....