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They need to find some medium sized city that will let them play with their traffic lights.
by tdaltonc 10y ago
They need to find some medium sized city that will let them play with their traffic lights.
- Houshalter 10y agoOr we could build a new city from the ground up so everything is run by the AI.
- s_m_t 10y agoPlease! Imagine all the time, gas, and sanity wasted at red lights when there is absolutely no cross traffic!
- WalterBright 10y agoYeah, it's obvious there's a heluva lot of low hanging fruit in dynamically adjusting the traffic lights. Lots of them already even have cameras on them, it's just a software problem, and a problem worth scores (hundreds?) of millions to solve (in terms of gas, pollution, and time reductions).
- ucho 10y agoYeah, that are exactly the arguments used by companies selling "Intelligent Transportation Systems". After deployment: surprise - there aren't any noticeable changes, except for places that are performing worse and require manual tweaking. Also the best way to reduce traffic in city is to reduce vehicle flow into the city which only moves jams to other places.
- Kenji 10y agoI've actually taken some sociology classes about this and the professor was a physicist who went into sociology and he used a lot of maths and modeling to tackle this problem in a local city. Unfortunately I do not have any data on this anymore but I remember it being surprisingly complex because human behaviour plays a big role, but there are massive improvements to be made with traffic lights, and so he did.