On a highway near the Yuchih Township of Nantou, new rows of street lamps have been installed recently to provide drivers with better illumination during nighttime. But some complain that these lamps may actually pose a new threat to road safety. So what's the problem here? Our next story explains.

It's every driver's dream--green lights all the way and not a stop sign in sight.

But if you think it's too good to be true, you're absolutely right. A closer look will reveal that these glowing green objects are actually street lamps, not traffic lights.

And such a design can be especially dangerous for unsuspecting motorists at night.

"Having mistaken them for green lights, I tried to speed up in case they might turn red soon," this scooter rider says.

And things can get even more complicated when real traffic lights come into the mix.

Located along the Provincial Highway No. 21, these newly installed street lamps are part of an effort to improve nighttime illumination for drivers by Nantou's Yuchih township office,

which claims that the choice of the color green is meant to add an artistic flavor to the landscape.

But perhaps the result only serves to prove that even in an age when "green" trumps all other colors in importance, it may still be a bad choice for some situations.