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Traffic lights equipped with short range fm transmitters with enough range to accommodate the cars waiting at them, all tuned to an unused local fm frequency. Every traffic light tells a story to pass your waiting time. Each intersection has a different personality and/or a different story to tell
that evolves. So, when you pull up to a light, you tune in and get a 30-60 second loop of a story that progresses daily.
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Nice idea. Some traffic lights could, instead of a story, broadcast local history, names of notable celebrities who have had traffic accidents nearby, nearby amenities, etc. |
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Give something for people to do at traffic lights besides picking their nose? [+] |
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// besides picking their nose // |
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Excavating their aural canal ? |
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No doubt somewhere there would be a Traffic Light equvalent of Marvin the Paranoid Android who would keep you sat there for hours while droning on about a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left side. .... |
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A short five or ten second promotional ad at the beginning of each day's story episode could attract commercial subsidization of the entire project, ultimately making it a revenue source for the municipality. |
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"Vote for ... <insert name of venal local politico here> for shorter traffic light adverts !" |
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Yes I like this - could be used for
education too. It could broadcast little
factoids and things. |
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Adverts should be at the end though,
as you're pulling away. There are so
many radio stations in the UK that if
you hear an ad it's quicker to just tune
in to another station that's playing a
song (or the BBC). |
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Definitely go with hippo's idea about
local info, could broadcast local traffic
info and be tied in to the system which
already exists called the RDS (Radio
Data System) which can briefly re-tune
your radio. This would be bakeable! |
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This idea also helps to alert that guy in front of you who is looking for something in his back seat that the light has changed and he should stop looking back and start moving forward... out of your way. |
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