A Device That Alerts Your Phone When the Light Turns Green? It's a Hoax With a Message

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Texting while driving is universally recognized among people who are not idiots as a terrible, very dangerous, no good idea. Texting while driving but stopped at a red light is still a bad one, even though it’s technically legal in New York.

But what if you had another device to help you know when the light turned green while you were texting or Facebooking at a red light, so you could still do it—without the inevitable honks of annoyance behind you?

Enter Redlight Greenlight, a new gag product—complete with fake $1

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