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Re:Humans Are Slamming into Driverless Cars and Exposing a K... by dalke on Saturday December 19, 2015 @12:19PM (#10764128)
"Significantly more than $1.7m to build a roundabout"

No. Look again. The quoted text says "$1.7 million to design and build the roundabouts". Plural. That was three roundabouts, not one, on "51st Ave S, Renton Ave S and S Roxbury ST". And some of the objections you just now raised have been addressed in links I gave earlier, including examples of SDOT proposals for roundabouts in urban Seattle.

I give up. You have decided on your answer and no real-world information will change your personal beliefs. You win.

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Re:Humans Are Slamming into Driverless Cars and Exposing a K... by WalterBright on Sunday December 20, 2015 @03:40AM (#10766505)
It's still 10x the cost. Costs of the light system can be further reduced by instead of installing a computer at the light, have the computer centrally located to serve any number of lights. Since the cameras are already network connected, this is practical.

I've been in countries that are comfortable with roundabouts. They also still have traffic lights everywhere. Something is missing in your analysis that explains this choice.

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