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"We want to be present on the apps that people already use" How can they not see that an app for traffic lights is clearly the wrong approach? Smart traffic lig
by Stevvo 1y ago
"We want to be present on the apps that people already use" How can they not see that an app for traffic lights is clearly the wrong approach? Smart traffic lights are working great in many countries without needing an app for them to work.
- holowoodman 1y agoI guess they just want to collect movements of all their citizens, and this is their way to get at the data.
- jeroenhd 1y agoBelgium has intelligent traffic lights already. You can't use an app system like this without existing smart traffic light infrastructure. This just allows for better traffic flow management by predicting influxes of traffic along long roads. But, more importantly, it allows traffic planners to analyze popular sources/destinations on the road map. If 90% of cars turn left at a certain traffic light but only because the traffic light before it takes forever to turn green, they can tweak the scheduling to divide traffic more evenly. The obvious downside, of course, is that this data will quickly show individuals when analyzing patterns in remote areas.
- LtdJorge 1y agoEveryone wants you to install their app these days. Install my app to turn on the lights, install the app to see the menu at a restaurant, install the app to read information about an archaeological site, install an app to open the automatic doors. As you said, it's 100% the wrong approach.
- create-username 1y agoYou will soon be unable to cross the intersection unless you manually turn the light green from your mobile phone or wait until another authorised driver does it, in order to protect the children
- tzs 1y ago> Everyone wants you to install their app these days. Except that's not what they want here. What they want is for the apps that most people already use to add support for this.
- LtdJorge 1y agoI know, and it's frankly better. They didn't make an app, they made a protocol.
- alias_neo 1y agoI think many in the comments are misunderstanding how this works, perhaps because it's not clearly explained, but my understanding is that they want to integrate with your navigation software so that they can predict (based on the routes of drivers navigating with a supported app) when certain vehicles will reach certain lights and adjust the timing so as not to cause traffic to have to slow down. The only way to do this effectively is with a planned route, and hence why they need to use an app (the one you're using to navigate/route plan with) and why having the main navigation apps people tend to use (e.g. Waze, GMaps) is desirable.