Japan is color-blind person design traffic lights – Japan, color-blind people, design of traffic lights
RecordJapan website quoted Japan's Mainichi Daily News February 7, Tokyo, Japan, Shiba, Minato Post Office near the crossroads recently put on the experimental traffic lights in favor of the identification of color-blind crowd, the difference between the traffic lights and red traffic lights is red light designed by high light LED lamp \"×\" logo on the color-blind people to play a good reminder.
The statistics show that Japan who are color blind male to female ratio for men, respectively, 5%, women 0.2%, the color-blind population is generally difficult to distinguish between the red lines and yellow lines, especially in the lower ability to identify at night.
It is understood that the experimental traffic lights was developed by the Japanese island of Kyushu Sangyo University Professor off the river Taro, \"x\" logo uses a special LED lamps typically four times brighter than the normal color vision close look at the powder color, 100 meters away you can not distinguish with red. On the other hand, the population of color-blindness can be a distinct identify the \"×\" logo.
Prior to this, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka City, the Eastern District of traffic the road in January and a pilot experiment Tokyo within the creation of color-blind treatment Section of the Tokyo Jikei will doctors big hospital nearby also will be At the recent placement of the experiment the traffic lights, the whole Japan Traffic Safety Association plans for a pilot experiment, and strive to rapid and comprehensive practical. (/ Xinhua)
