Originally Posted by NYTimes
The Federal Aviation Administration will add a runway version of traffic signals at 20 busy airports in the next three and a half years, the agency said Monday. The signals are part of a program to keep taxiing airplanes or vehicles from intruding on runways where other planes are taking off and landing.
The system will have a computer that determines when a runway is in use, and then turns on red lights embedded in the pavement at each intersection. Thus it would help address errors by pilots and by controllers at the 20 airports, which include Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport but not La Guardia Airport.
Far be it from me to be the first to sound skeptical, but am I the only one who looks at a "Stoplight-embedded-in-the-pavement-that-is-activated-by-a-computer-when-the-computer-determines-the-runway-is-'in-use'-for-takeoffs-and-landings" being THE answer to runway incursions with a
VERY cynical eye?