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Re:Humans Are Slamming into Driverless Cars and Exposing a K... by protomyth on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:03AM (#10756729)
To give you an idea where the tech is at, the local news did a report for Plymouth MN about Bob who is the person that manually goes around and adjusts the timing on the street lights. It is sneaker net applied to traffic control.
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Re:Humans Are Slamming into Driverless Cars and Exposing a K... by WalterBright on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:17AM (#10756784)
The timing was done in the 70's, and it never worked. The city would argue that its traffic engineers were highly competent and had timed it perfectly, but all the drivers knew better.

It's like the TV sound engineers who'd argue that the commercials are not set to be louder. Yeah, I know, dynamic range compression, but I'd put VU meters on the sound and the loudest sound in the TV show was quite a bit lower than the average sound on the commercials.

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