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Green Light: Using Google AI to reduce traffic emissions (sites.research.google)
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Green Light optimizes traffic lights to reduce vehicle emissions in cities, helping mitigate climate change and improving urban mobility

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that a lot of traffic collisions with pedestrians or other vehicles happen when lights change and cars need to (suddenly) slow down.

Person A might slam on their brakes at the first sight of a red light. Person B make floor it to make the light. Put person A and B in the same lane and they might hit each other. Or in different lanes person B might blast through the red light right as a pedestrian started crossing.

Predictability is the most important thing. Unfortunately I’m not sure how much I trust an AI to be predictable.

Also when I’m walking and when I’m driving I want as little intersections as possible. There are other ways to slow down traffic besides awful intersections.