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When I see projects like this one, my mind mostly goes to, "how will this be funded and maintained?" This requires a lot of specialized infrastructure to be ru
by tylervigen 2y ago
When I see projects like this one, my mind mostly goes to, "how will this be funded and maintained?"
This requires a lot of specialized infrastructure to be run. I really like the idea of cities investing in measures that make small positive improvements for many people. However, for Google this seems like a side project, so I have my doubts that it will be around in 5 years. Not exactly the kind of thing I want to back with long term infrastructure dollars.
- judge2020 2y ago> In order to achieve a positive climate impact, we want to be able to deploy high-quality Green Light recommendations to many cities globally and scale fast. So we purposely set up everything to be simple and lightweight — cities don’t need to invest in any dedicated software or hardware integrations,” says Green Light Program Manager Alon Harris. “We just share our recommendations with the city, and then they evaluate them and take action.”
- barbazoo 2y agoSo this would be something like “make your east/west green phases 5 seconds longer between 7am and 9am and 5pm and 7 pm”.