who thought of the colors choices of our stop light system?

Question

& why??!

Answer 1

Lester Wire designed the first red-and-green traffic light. The second was based on the design of James Hoge. It had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer to provide a warning for color changes. The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit in 1920.

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. Otherwise, any other color is too far in either direction of hue to be recognized by color-blind people. The amber light was added as a modern advance from the light-change buzzer. A diverse color was needed.

On a humorous note, my friend and I once stumbled on this very topic right after consuming a bit of alchohol and his comment was, "Well, a traffic light is very different than a banana."
"A banana?"
"Yes. With the traffic light, green means go, yellow means slow, and red means stop."
"Yeah, so?"
"With a banana, green means 'hold on there', yellow means 'go ahead', and red means 'where the f@%# did you get that banana?!' "

Hope you're satiated.

Answer 2

Probably the same guy who thought that orange center lines on the road was a good idea as well as white lines. The idea of orange and white lines may have had some merit when you only drove during the day, but at night when it is raining, 99% of the time you cannot see the lines because of the reflection of the lights or some such cause. But, for years people have been trying to get the government to change the lines to phospherent lime green. It shows up in all weather raining, snowing,sandstorms, etc. and you can even see them with it raining so hard that the reflections of other sites causes mishaps. But the government in its infinite wisdom would rather have 50,000 deaths a year than do something so easy.

Answer 3

The guy who invented the traffic light, Garrett A. Morgan , a black man. Those three colors project the furthest because they have the longest wavelengths and crap

Answer 4

So What's your problem?
Universally, red means danger; stop.
Universally green is the color of safety, thus go.
You got a problem with that?
Take it up with god!

Answer 5

and what is SO wrong with them??? you need to make them 3 distict colors... there really isn't much of a choice out there!!!

Answer 6

a very simple minded boring person and because he thought he was a genious