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The flashing white strobe on top of school busses is also on top of all EMR Vehicles. The Stobes are speaking to the traffic lights.. M2M ( Machine to Machine ). When the smart traffic lights detect the stobe, they are qued to change to green, or prevent from changing to red. This allows emergency traffic to keep flowing, instead of being caught in traffic jams. In the case of the school busses, it allows the buses to arrive on time to school every day. Not all cities have the smart traffic lights yet, and even those that do, only the major arteries have them.
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What do you call the flashing white light at parties and clubs?
The flashing white light that may occur at parties and/or clubs is called a "strobe light." A "strobe light" is a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by charging a capacitor to a very high voltage then discharging it as a high-intensity flash of light in a tube
How long is a grate white?
3-4 school buses long
What does a flashing white light mean on the runway mean?
return to ramp
What does a flashing white light gun signal mean?
return to starting point
What colors appear on mooring buoys when lighted?
slow flashing white light
What does a flashing white light-gun signal mean?
return to starting point
Why school buses are always yellow and white in colour?
to tell them apart from public transport.
A flashing white light gun signal means?
Return to Starting Point on Airport
Why the school buses are coloured yellow?
According to a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/us/cooling-and-safety-trend-for-buses-white-tops.html), bus tops are painted white to help cool the interior temperature. "Painting the bus tops white dropped the interior temperature an average of 10 degrees during the summer, with as much as a 17-degree difference at peak hours. Wintertime temperatures were lower by only 3 to 4 degrees. The study also found that children behaved better on buses in cooler temperatures ..."
Why do school buses have white tops?
Because the white reflects heat and keeps the bus cooler. They would get extremely hot with all the students if the roofs were not white.
How tubelights glow in buses?
tubelights in buses are made to glow by the inside being painted with this paint which glows when it comes into conatct with a noble gas for example argon. The paint glows producing a white light
What does a flashing white light on a buoy indicate?
it doesn't indicate anything, aside from the fact that the buoy is there. the light simply makes it more visible in foggy or dark conditions.
