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Traffic signals
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Traffic signals, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Pedestrians must press and wait for a signal even when the road is clear2026-09-23
- Traffic department staff struggle with an awful software user interface2022-02-18
- Drivers can't tell whether a right red arrow permits turning on red2021-12-07
- Bike-hostile signals make cyclists wait pointlessly, so they start ignoring them2021-11-09