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Cameras can be at every intersection all the time and can adapt in real-time to emerging traffic patterns (ie a ballgame ending and a stadium of people hitting
by blackflame7000 8y ago
Cameras can be at every intersection all the time and can adapt in real-time to emerging traffic patterns (ie a ballgame ending and a stadium of people hitting the road at once) as well as traffic changes over time from environmental changes
- mastox 8y agoWhy can't pneumatic tubes do this?
- Rebelgecko 8y agoOr inductive sensors
- _underfl0w_ 8y ago...which would required correlating what they're seeing with outside data. That's not something /inherent/ to the device. If you're going to correlate datasets, you could just as easily do it with your sports/weather data and pneumatic tube data.
- blackflame7000 8y agoA camera is cheaper and a camera can measure speed as well as slowdowns and stoppages that a tube simply can't do. A tube was the old way but if you're going to make a new device a camera makes more sense.