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That seems an over-engineered, highly expensive and complicated to maintain on a road-lifetime scale system
by gregoriol 1y ago
That seems an over-engineered, highly expensive and complicated to maintain on a road-lifetime scale system
- antonvs 1y agoTaxi drivers might have said the same thing about Uber. These days, many dishwashers, refrigerators, coffee machines etc. routinely connect to the internet. The tech is well established, and projects like this become possible precisely because they’re not that complicated to build or maintain. They take advantage of common infrastructure, and can often be cheaper than supposedly “simpler” alternatives.
- LtdJorge 1y ago> These days, many dishwashers, refrigerators, coffee machines etc. routinely connect to the internet. The tech is well established And as a side effect, we get very funny cyber-security news weekly!
- gregoriol 1y agoHow many news did we get recently about such "tech" products becoming disabled because 2G was gone, because the app was gone, ... Road lights should last 20+ years, no app/connected system will last that long.
- antonvs 1y agoGoogle Maps is 20 years old. The connectivity at the traffic lights can be a small box, easily replaced, much more cheaply than e.g. traffic sensors under the road. If the system fails for some reason, such as an internet outage, traffic lights can fall back to ordinary timing. You’re not raising serious objections.
- jeroenhd 1y agoDoing this with existing apps is probably a lot cheaper than installing cameras and traffic counting loops on every side of every intersection, which would be the alternative to this. The smart traffic light management systems are already in place in many intersections already, this is just hooking another source of traffic information into the system without having to dig open concrete or asphalt.