Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.

• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Interestingly, some lights are set up to deliberately slow down speeders. If you are above the speed limit, they turn red, just to slow things back down. Unfortunately, most of the people involved never put cause and effect together.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What annoys me is the road to work in the morning actually seems to do the opposite. It’s a 35 or 40mph road, but if you do 40 you’re not gonna make it through without stopping. But if you do 50-60? No stops.

    Once again though people don’t pick up on this.

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  • 9bananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    how would that even work, if there’s no indication that driving too fast was the reason for the red light?

    do these actually include some sort of screen that tells the driver they were too fast and that’s why the light turned red?

    I’d imagine that this “feature” would only result in more frustration, and thus more speeding, instead of less.

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