Ever heard of roundabouts?
Roundabouts are amazing, but they have 2 drawbacks. Throughput is limited and the size of the intersection becomes larger. Hence, there will always be a lot of places where traffic lights are the better option.
Not great for pedestrians either I think
Meanwhile our downtown intentionally makes it so you won’t make it more than a light or two for pedestrian safety as it keeps speeds down.
Luckily it’s not a big downtown.
This is the basic stuff that AI could be used for to improve everyones life.
Don’t count on it. For instance, one of the main drags in Plano,TX was set so that doing the speed limit would cause you to sit at the lights - because one of the city council owned those an ad business and the combo billboard/bench made him money. And the police liked it too, since impatient people would speed the whole way to avoid getting caught at the lights.
This is not good news. Cramming more cars onto the road means more emissions and more collisions
Maybe it’s a matter of short- vs long-run? The article seems to describe the short-run effects. fewer idle cars is better. But you are saying that in the long run this might lead to more cars, which is worse.
My only ticket in 20 years of driving was a bullshit running a red light charge. It was fucking yellow! It was unsafe to stop. Fuck traffic cops.
Had same situation. It was pouring rain. 3 way intersection, I didn’t even see it turn to red only yellow. Cop took like 2 min to catch up to me to pull me over and say “you almost killed me” I was so confused.
I went to court to talk to magistrate or whatever and there was like 20 people and they all were getting reduced to non moving violations but when it was my turn she was like “you may have noticed everyone before you got reduced to non moving violation but we can’t just have that for everyone can we, gotta make an example out of someone and I was promptly denied reduced offense.
So I went to court again to go against the judge but the cop that pulled me over pulled me aside and asked why I was here and I told him “I never ran a red light. It was pouring rain and the light turned yellow as I went through… and he’s like fine and told the judge to drop it.
I think mine ended up being a $600 fine and a point on my driving license that dropped after like ten years. I recently tried to get the paperwork for it, but it was so long ago there’s no record of it.
Google amd uplifting news usually don’t mix together
Looks like another data harvesting attempt
In general, I guess. But strictly speaking, not everything google does is bad. Translate, Earth, are all cool projects.
