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Speaker 1: They're called Pedestrian hybrid beacons, three prong stop lights that

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Speaker 1: blink when there's a pedestrian waiting to enter the crosswalk,

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Speaker 1: then turn solid red when cars need to come to

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Speaker 1: a complete stop. There are forty of them on Massachusetts roadways,

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Speaker 1: and a new study by researchers at UMAs and Hers

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Speaker 1: shows a lot of drivers either don't know or don't

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Speaker 1: care about using them properly, blowing through solid reds or

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Speaker 1: stopping before they're supposed to. Tom says he hasn't found

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Speaker 1: it to be an issue.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any problem with people stop in action.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time they do, but Brian says it

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Speaker 1: is especially when there's more than one person getting ready

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Speaker 1: to cross.

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Speaker 2: They might stop for me, but they'll go right aster

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Speaker 2: even if it's red.

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Speaker 1: The study also showed that some drivers stop just because

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Speaker 1: they see pedestrians waiting, even if the light says otherwise.

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Speaker 1: Fatima says she waits for the light to tell her

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Speaker 1: to cross anyway. I just want wait till it actually

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Speaker 1: shows to get the.

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Speaker 2: Sum don't struck.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's news radio