Traffic Lights That Punish Speeders
from the reprogramming-those-with-lead-feet dept
Over in the city of Pleasanton, California, they're launching a new traffic light that detects speeders - and hits them with a red light. While plenty of lights have sensors to let them know when to turn green, this one is designed to cool off the speeders and slow them down a bit. It watches for speeders, and when they're spotted, it turns the light red, to make them slow down. Some are against this, but I can't see what they have to complain about, really. They're not getting fined. They're not getting pulled over. They're just being forced to stop at a perfectly legitimate stoplight.
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This isn't new... or is it?
But, yeah, if alll you've got to do is to wait at a light rather than get a ticket I would say you've got nothing about which to complain. In our nation's capital you get a ticket, eh. If nothing else you would know that there's no point in hurrying and you'll go faster if you mantain the speed limit.
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1) A light-running cmaera will be connected to the light Wham! instant $$$$.
2) Some engineer in the Valley will figure out how to blind the camera to neutralize the light and the cold war will begin.
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Not just the speeder
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could we perhapse raise the speed limit?
nooo that would never work
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I wonder about how this can scale up
I curious about how having an individual signal break its coordinated timing plan to slow down a speeder would affect the overall efficiency of the corridor (Level of Service in traffic engineering speak). It is a neat idea, but I wonder about the unintended consequences. Urban signal systems can be surprisingly complex.
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