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A full stoplight requires a full stop which defeats a lot of the benefits of a proper zipper merge where traffic just keeps flowing with no stops.

In a more general sense on a highway any time a car comes to a full stop you have the chance to create a phantom traffic jam as the stop travels back along the incoming stream of cars.

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[YIELD || GREEN] alternating lights then


There is no Yellow-Green traffic light in germany. There is only Red, Red-Green, Red-Yellow and Red-Yellow-Green.


I'm speaking more about hypothetical new lights in the USA, Germany, or elsewhere in the world.




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