solving the traffic time bandit

[ARMANDO PADILLA]

I lived in grater LA all my life. I do travel I've been around, so I know what other places are like. But LA traffic at rush hour pick a highway the 110 Hollywood is probably the worst. commuting to work can be a hell hole. I know how many hours of my life I lost so far stuck in the 100-mile-long parking lot moving slower than I can run. (embellishments maybe) my point is it sucks, and I've always had the dream that one day we would solve that problem with autonomous vehicles. and by removing human limitations and imperfections, or human error we could eliminate the traffic time bandit. but I Imagined cars that communicated with each other and formed convoys all moving very quickly and in a coordinated manner peel off or join. Intersections that don't need to stop they simply cross without crashing. to a computer it's just a simple calculation and it has no fear. So never stop intersections. and I thought for this to work we must also seperate passenger vehicles from cargo commercial vehicles, but they would have their own network of roads, tunnels, rails. If I could have all that time back, I would pay any amount for that!

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[yohst]

I have had that same thought. Here in san diego they even experimented with that on a stretch of highway (which is now HOV) in the nineties. High powered magnets embedded in the road and cars equipped with detectors and controls is how they designed this. I saw them drive a little car train every once in a while. It would all be so much easier and more flexible right now.

 

[ARMANDO PADILLA]

yeah, the old magnets in the road idea but you put them in the center of the lane and close enough to each other to be able to encode into the magnets information that tells the car its exact location direction speed and posible destinations simply by alternating the magnets north and south poles like bits in computers or on/off switches. the magnets don't necessarily energize the car or make it float they only help center the cars to the lane and hold embedded information.

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