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This will instigate road rage when the car tells you to go 15 in a 30 because that’s the only way to “ride the green wave.”
by isoskeles 8y ago
This will instigate road rage when the car tells you to go 15 in a 30 because that’s the only way to “ride the green wave.”
- MeltySmelty 8y agoYou'd also be breaking the law in many places, depending on how the cop feels at the time.
- notus 8y agoMaybe, but this segues nicely into a connected car self driving system where self driving cars can make adjustments to their own driving patterns to hit more green lights and reduce congestion.
- magduf 8y agoWhat I'm wondering is if it'll tell you to speed because that's the only way to break the cycle of getting stuck at every red light.
- 51lver 8y agoGoing slower would accomplish the same goal, save fuel, increase safety, and probably lots of other things that will look nice in the marketing brochure for this feature.
- magduf 8y agoNot necessarily. Going 5mph on a busy street is surely much more dangerous than going 5mph over the speed limit (remember, most other drivers are also probably going at least 5mph over).
- 51lver 8y agoI completely disagree. Please don't go 5 over in places with pedestrians and stoplights.
- magduf 8y agoThis behavior is completely routine in every American city today. You're tilting at windmills.
- piahoo 8y agogoing slow definitely should not be dangerous. speeding is dangerous. there is slight difference between city and highway infractructure. almost everyone forget that "speed limit" is not "recommended speed". lets not stigmatize innocent people, and pursue those, who actually are breaking the law
- magduf 8y agoNo, because you can't reasonably ticket people for going only 5mph over. There's a reason almost no cops bother doing so, and set their threshold at 9 or 10 over: car speedometers aren't that accurate, cars can easily vary their speed a few mph as they drive, radar is only so accurate, etc. And yes, "speed limit" really is "recommended speed", because that's how people drive in the US today. You wishing it were different will not make it so.