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I don't understand the rule at all. Will the white signal show in all directions simultaneously? If so, how's it going to.. you know.. control traffic? If not, why not just replace it with green? What's the actual logic here?

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Here's human drivers navigating in a similar way in a large intersection in Addis Abada (Ethiopia), I envision white light basically enabling this: https://youtu.be/VPbUpdmAfck

I'd love to see this in real-time rather than this sped up version. I suspect it's a little more reasonable to navigate when going slow enough.

Even at .25 play back speed it's still obviously way too fast in some cases.

And yes, it looks kinda normalize when the people walking are walking, not running.

Why would you want to "enable" this?

What is actually being enabled, and is it more efficient than a regular green-yellow-red intersection? If you watch on 1x, this seems like a horribly slow/inefficient intersection.

the alternative is 5km long traffic jams in all 4 directions waiting for 2-3 cars to pass each green phase.

I suppose because the car in front of you might possibly stop at the light.

Why would they do that? To avoid a crash? What's the light even doing then? I don't need lights to rely on other drivers' desire not to crash.

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