Noun
signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic
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It is believed that the name was adopted when people were no longer required to control traffic and robotic like machinery (traffic lights) were rolled out.
I guess the term makes sense if you think about how the system replaced a human controlling traffic.
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