> This was yanked almost immediately after it was deployed and announced:

And I think that was the right call. These were just "slow down" lights styled to look like stop lights, but a stop light-looking thing must in all cases actually be an enforced stop light. Otherwise, you're just training drivers to run red lights once they figure it out.

And apparently got a name change.

Focus groups showed that drivers are more responsive to traffic lights named Earl, than Fred. Probably.