Gadget to put a stop to stopping at lights
Motoring engineers have created a gadget which they claim could mean you will never get caught at a red traffic light.
The 'Travolution' device tells drivers what speed to go at to ensure traffic lights are always green when they arrive at them.
Makers Audi claim it would cut exhaust emissions because fewer cars would be stationary and that it will improve fuel economy by ending stop-start inefficiency.
It works by receiving signals from near-by traffic lights about the time remaining until their next green phase and calculating the speed which the driver must maintain in order to pass through the light during this green phase.
Test in the Germany firm's hometown of Ingostadt have proved so successful they have been given the green-light to expand the trial, but you wouldn't expect them to be given any other colour light, would you.?
Twenty more A5 and A6 cars are being fitted with the tech as part of the test and fifty more sets of traffic lights are to be fitted with modules.
