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I think the use of blue to mean both blue and green has also been present in Korea for a long time.
I wonder where it came from? In my limited experience if Korea and Japan share something culturally it often has its common derivation in Chineese tradition.
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Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
Night time?
https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-mto-drivers-handboo...
Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.
Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
Yes. They can still drive fine, but don't get the benefits of color coding, like being able to infer whether red or green is lit from the light reflected off of other objects. That becomes somewhat important in low visibility situations where the position is hard to determine.
https://www.color-blindness.com/2007/02/06/colorblind-at-the...
Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.
Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
I see green lights as white, which is fine most of the time because of the order.
The exception is when there's a lot of glare from the sun setting behind me, and I sometimes can't tell if it's green, or just the sun reflecting at the right angle. It also washes out the red and yellow, making it harder to see if they're lit.
The Reader's Digest article is just a mediocre summary of the Atlas Obscura one it links to: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japan-green-traffic-li... Although the latter does contain a complete misrepresentation of what "grue" means. The explanation is still unsatisfying. Japan had green lights, referred to in law by a word which means blue but has traditionally encompassed green as well. Pedants pointed out t…
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The blue-green distinction is a late feature of most languages.
Even Greek and Latin did not have as clear a distinction as we have today.
