I saw a good article on c/upliftingnews about AI improving traffic signal controllers. It’s good and all, I just can’t help but think of the “look at what they need to have a fraction of our power” meme while reading it

  • jungle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely. After moving from a roundabout-less country to Ireland, I wish every red light was replaced with one. The only drawback is that they’re more complicated than red lights and many people don’t know how to use them properly (or don’t care).

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      1 year ago

      And they take up a lot more space than traffic lights.

      The trade off for improved traffic flow is worth it unless space is at a premium, which tends to be the case in high density cities.

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        1 year ago

        Sao Paulo have a lot of them on the middle of some high density neighborhoods, they work great as traffic calm measures because you can’t blast though a street because they are a roundabout on each intersection.