Google tests new AI technology in Seattle to improve traffic flow

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@IntriguedLioness 10 ай бұрын

A good move however... As a proponent of public transportation who has never driven in any of the massive cities I've lived in Seattle is so small town and horribly congested I just wish city planners would have stepped in 50 years ago and provided a better light rail / streetcar system. The west coast will go down in history as being so car dependent that the entire city's layouts were negatively affected. Travel to Europe or southeast Asia and you'll see wonderful transit systems. And no sitting at a red light.

@sea4our 10 ай бұрын

all you tech dickheads fail to realize: this wasn't a desirable place to be, the way that it's being presented and overly hyped to you now. we used to be able to scare you all away with "it rains here every day". this influx of people caused 10+ years of growth in less than 5 years while a bunch of overpaid man babies complain about how things aren't adhering to them quick enough. the light rail was voted against by citizens as far back as the 70s, because they didn't see the point at the time. this was a very different place to live before you all turned it into Bellevue/Redmond. the homelessness and traffic didn't exist in the excess that it does in your weird little tech vacuum, regardless of what "someone who moved here in 2010 when it was still cool" attempts to tell you. you would think a bunch of "brilliant" people could grasp the concept of how they've changed the landscape around them, better.

@emma70707 10 ай бұрын

@@mack-wd3wf, lol, you sit in traffic in cities in the Midwest, South, and Texas too, bud... It's a function of car dependency and growth. You're right that many places run by conservative leadership had faced negative population growth and so hadn't had to deal with much traffic, but with rising home prices in more liberal areas, the Sunbelt and Texas started to see a lot of growth in the urban metros (which are blue and red states now usually) and accordingly they tend to have pretty terrible gridlock.

@206beastman 10 ай бұрын

I see that Toyota 4x4 van everywhere

@Matt-kt9nm 10 ай бұрын

Giving Google more data and power. If there's an issue who is responsible the city or Google

@shaynewhite1 10 ай бұрын

This is great news, I've noticed for decades that there are times when the green lights have no traffic going through them and the red lights are all backed up.

@Matt-kt9nm 10 ай бұрын

Those lights are on timers. They can be adjusted, but most likely haven't been.

@schubajo 10 ай бұрын

Better idea: take public transit or bike.

@leeedens9497 4 ай бұрын

Ok, Google’s Project Green, sounds a lot like what my friend and I talked about over twenty years ago in college, basically, larger cities seem to have designed traffic into their system, and we noticed that you would always catch a red light with no real movement of traffic, good for Google, now maybe cities will focus on moving traffic, on keeping traffic flowing with the help of AI

@206beastman 10 ай бұрын

Let's compare it to the traffic in India sorry these rich tech ppl who live in another city have to deal with traffic. I used to live buy REI rent was 800 buck for a 3 bdrm and it was all industrial now it's swank breweries and fancy cocktail bars

@awwwshucks443 10 ай бұрын

Better drivers. LOL

@AaronTheHarris 10 ай бұрын

Lol Induced demand guarantees that the more you "fix" traffic, the worse it will get as more people will try to drive through the "fixed" area.

@VanillaMacaron551 10 ай бұрын

Operating on three intersections, one in Ballard, two in Greenwood. More, please, quick!

@justingo4764 10 ай бұрын

Make driving school 2 years min mandatory: have road discipline,don't let Asians drive and keep speed at least the speed limit

@drwatson5089 10 ай бұрын

Big Tech companies have a propensity of clustering in big cities. It’s time for them to move out to satellite towns in suburbs to decongest the big cities. Anyway most of their work can be done remotely.

@trailerhaul8200 10 ай бұрын

I thought Google gonna move out. Lol

@wjksea 10 ай бұрын

That’s all good. At the end of the day, there’s only so much land and more people are coming. These are private corporate government solutions that are as unsustainable as Reaganomics. The best thing to do is manage and maintain a transit system that uses what space there is with efficiency. The light rail was built too light. Denny exemplifies what will happen by allowing more speedy flow. More bus stops run down by aggressive self absorbed people in cars who outsource the costs to the rest of us.