I believe traffic lights currently use three bulbs, red, yellow and green. Even without color a computer system can easily determine when each light is lit.

If there are single bulbs displaying red, green and yellow please give clear examples.

Have you driven in America? We have the craziest lights you've ever seen. And that's just in my state

Flashing lights over rural intersections often do that. There is only one color there (yellow or red), but position is not a signal

How about turn signal vs brake lights?

> How about turn signal vs brake lights?

Potentially as extraneous as range to a surface that a camera can’t tell apart from background.

More to the point, everyone but Tesla is doing cameras plus Lidar. It’s increasingly looking like the correct bet.

> doing cameras plus Lidar

At what proportion? Is it mostly lidar or mostly cameras? Or 50/50?

> Potentially as extraneous as range to a surface that a camera can’t tell apart from background.

I guess yeah for backside of the car you'd probably better off measuring actual actions.

How about when you come 4 way stop. LIDAR is useless as it wouldn't recognize anyones turn signals.