Amber-flashing lights?

[Martin Cassini]

The RAC has published a report about traffic lights. Among their "ideas" is amber-flashing lights off-peak, "so drivers can cross with caution". As mentioned before, this exposes the shocking assumption that with lights, we don’t need to exercise caution; all we need to do is obey the system, which usurps our judgement and turns us into unthinking robots. Obviously amber-flashing lights that allow filtering on opportunity are an improvement on conventional control (as was obvious when I saw them in Germany in the 60s), but they still use vast resources and blight streetscapes to achieve what we can deliver "unaided", given a change in culture from priority to equality.