London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics

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bmsleight writes “Does it count as a hack if you change your own system? Vanity Fair report that during the bidding process for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Streets Traffic Control Center followed each vehicle using CCTV, ‘and when they came up to traffic lights,’ [bid committee CEO Keith] Mills said, ‘we turned them green.'”


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