|
JAPAN - Vehicles have to obey traffic signals, but now they could be used to power them.
The National Police Agency and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have conducted an experiment in which a modified electric vehicle was used as a power source for traffic signals, a development being made in preparation for a blackout caused by a disaster.
The agency had asked Mitsubishi to develop electric vehicles that could power signals in a disaster because many traffic lights did not work after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric vehicle was used for the experiment at an intersection near Tokyo Station on Tuesday.
The vehicle was hooked up to the signals via equipment for changing electric currents, and powered 20 signals for vehicles and pedestrians for about two hours.
 
| 
