Could AI improve rush hour traffic? | Baher Abdulhai | TEDxUofT

[@DC9V]

it's incredible how many AI generated comments there are in the comment section. Let's hope that this phenomenon doesn't transfer to the traffic system.

[@ddpwe5269]

Irony lolz

[@jiankaifeng9164]

I wonder if there’s a way to improve traffic by perhaps, creating some kind of coordinated system of transport?

[@wjcorrinne4052]

On a trip back to Washington,D.C. after leaving my sister’s house in Alexandria, we turned on the main one way street heading south to the Beltway. I began to pickup speed to around 30mph. Mom said to slow down to the posted speed, I think it was 20 or 25 mph. I thought we’d just get stuck in rush hour traffic, which in DC area can be a nightmare. BUT when I listened to Mom and slowed to the posted speed, we made every light and was just maintaining posted speed limit. It works but now we live in the Quad Cities Iowa/Illinois and it may work as the posted speeds but I’ve yet to find a street that does. Another thing I learned which works quite well is weaving/alternating merging traffic from businesses leaving the parking lots, lanes pinched to one lane during construction, etc.

[@MYG]

Please just build public transit, AI is not the solution trains and buses are.

[@Bofum69]

Yeah sure…trains and busses.

[@josephhefley1829]

It's not that easy in the United States. We are far too decentralized as compared to most European countries. And huge cities like New York, it works well, because there's always a subway terminal within walking distance. However, in places like Kansas, a train system would be totally ineffective for over 60% of the state.

[@DanH-u3f]

Turn urban freeways into toll roads during rush hour.

[@wjcorrinne4052]

Another thing on U.S.151 around Madison, Wis and the Interstate going through Milwaukee there are stop lights and both the ramp lanes and the outside lanes. A red light on the outside lane will merge traffic to the left then the green light on the ramp will turn green allowing traffic to move onto the Interstate. I thought it was a pretty inventive system. Now if they can just better time the lights on the one ways and main thoroughfares, it would be a great improvement, with AI they should be able to work it out.

[@numair3]

I appreciate your efforts

[@teknerd]

Is may work someday in the distant future. But not at the present when the roads are shared with traditional human driven cars.

[@ddpwe5269]

Regardless of the system, ANYONE who gets out of their vehicle in traffic is crazy.

[@ajsorensen2585]

This is a great idea

[@UserPhone-m8n]

الا ان نصر الله قريب الله ينصركم يا أهل غزة يا فلسطين

[@avinash7978]

No AI. Start simultaneous construction of metro, flyover and tunnels on 4 lane roads and convert it a single lane road for next 10-15 years. Learn from Bangalore

[@joeldheath]

Ironically, trains are still more efficient ways to move people around a city even when you add AI to make cars as efficient as is mathematically possible.

[@retiredrebel]

All vehicles makes & models, all traffic lights & digitized stop signs & yield signs etc, also trucks & trains, & even planes would need to be connected to a central plexus where live data is gathered, processed & dispatched. You’ll need enormous bandwidth, fiber & copper & other precious and rare earth metals to establish a wired & wireless system with redundancies & super capacitors. Until a snow storm or high winds knock out the power lines. Then you can take these automations and stick it where the Sun don’t shine. Much cheaper is to build roads that can be expanded & upgraded vertically & horizontally. Build way way way MORE train lines in this new rebellious continent known to be the capital of Oil & Gas and Automotive Industrial Lobbying PowerHouse. Encourage carpooling through great wages RideShare Taxi etc.

[@closerrl9851]

This was pretty basic highway data. We have it in Holland for a couple of years already. The thing that surprised me most about most other countries is the lack of general rules that slow you down but also goes against congestion. Not AI. Just better and stricter road rules. You dont need upgraded highways vertically or horizontally and that solution always makes me laugh. Public transportation however does the trick as well. You do not need AI to solve your highway problems at all.

[@closerrl9851]

This is basic highway data. We have these systems installed in Holland for years.

[@paralleluniverse369]

AI can predict this:- _I bet you are watching this with one leg over the other !_ ✨

[@vartaxe]

it would just work if everyone slows down... this is never gonna happen. and btw forcing people to slow down will get people angry anyways!

[@olealexanderroksvag3218]

Naice video😅😅

[@asiaadvocate2202]

I can't understand this video

[@jenwhittingham397]

this is all well and good but how do you manage human behaviour? It will be decades even 100 years before everyone is driving an autonomous vehicle. I want less traffic, everyone wants less traffic but getting everyone to drive slower, not tailgating ect. is actually the social innovation that would help this situation. And I would hope anyway that in 100 years there will be less cars on the road and more buses and trains available anyway.

[@wholylove]

If AI is the cause of rush hour traffic, how can it fix it? That which can see what needs to be changed can fix that which needs to be changed.

[@Shakedown24Seven]

Duh

[@دينامحمدالشرقاوى-د7ت]

If the time is against me I’m a Palestinian I love the challenge.When I speak about Palestine, I speak about a world, a paradise, a beautiful homeland, and a love that never dies.

[@brytonkalyi277]

» I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as faith and patience. We should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.

[@dinomiles7999]

Bryan Johnson Blueprint, Ai will soon take the guess work out of it and all gurus and snake oil salesmen will soon be gone. Don't die, see you in 2500

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Use fungus instead.

[@only__short]

Are you Learnt so many things, aren't you?

[@دينامحمدالشرقاوى-د7ت]

If the time is against me I’m a Palestinian I love the challenge.When I speak about Palestine, I speak about a world, a paradise, a beautiful homeland, and a love that never dies.