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One more argument is that there is usually a time gap between one light turning red and the other turning green. This gap should allow most of mild red light ru
by vijayshankar 17y ago
One more argument is that there is usually a time gap between one light turning red and the other turning green. This gap should allow most of mild red light runners to pass through safely. (At least in my city in India this is true, the time gap is as big as 5 to 8 seconds)
- weaksauce 17y agoThe systems here have a time gap too but it was not sufficient in this case. I think it's at most 1-2 seconds here. I understand that argument but I am of the school of thought that the machine should not make decisions that can impact my safety unless it is an emergency. shaving off a few seconds on my commute is not what I would call a much of a benefit when there is a substantial possible downside.
- djcapelis 17y agoThese types of technology are unlikely to make it out of research for quite a long time. Assist and emergency operation tech seems to make it to deployment a lot faster because of exactly these issues. The transition between research and deployment is an important period where things that recently became possible can be fully scrutinized. The goal of research is simply to make things possible. The rest is a long hard slog that not all tech makes it through. In short, I really wouldn't worry about anything they're working on in a research facility, that's just so far away from shipping product figuring out which parts are more or less useful probably isn't worth doing at this point.