Pet Peeves

My pet peeve is they've got the self-driving cars idea backwards. Not literally, but what is already easily possible.

We do have smart traffic lights. Vegas went with that several years ago. It really did improve traffic flow.

But with current Ai we can fantastically improve things. Ai doesn't need to do anything but recognize cars are on the road.

Imagine. Instead of needless sitting an extra minute longer Ai could switch your light in seconds it takes to cause the opposing light to go through yellow and red lights at normal speed.

It would never even bother to change the light from green if no one has come down the other road for ten minutes.

It would pay actual attention to the conditions of the moment not the hour of rush or even of the last minute.

Worried about it might turn opposing lights both green. Just make a physical switch that moves from one pole to another. It physically can't make a mistake. You could probably add a few extra backup safeguards if you need to.

However, you might need to add lots more traffic cameras than currently.