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Ever wonder how long it will take a traffic light to change? Audi has developed a solution, and we took a ride through the Las Vegas strip during the CES 2014 in an A6 sedan equipped with Traffic Light Assist to check it out.
The Audi technology is integrated with the city’s traffic signal system, monitoring the light change data
With Americans' propensity for running red lights, this sounds like a good way to get killed. Yeah, I'm that guy that waits a second or two after green to hit the gas.
With Americans' propensity for running red lights, this sounds like a good way to get killed. Yeah, I'm that guy that waits a second or two after green to hit the gas.
I do the same thing about waiting a second or two. I've seen some close calls when people are talking on the cellphone and not watching where there going.
As much as I enjoy the occasional stop light drag race I take enough time to check for crossing traffic before I start to move. We have a number of distracted drivers turning left in front of me on the RED while talking on the phone.
Aha -- at last, an opportunity for drivers to text safely. Now, instead of looking out the window at the evolving traffic environment while stopped, drivers can either text or watch the indicator on their instrument cluster.
Traffic lights could more easily have a counter affixed to the light itself, as has been in use in Netherlands for a half a century.
Drivers should have been taught that they are supposed to be paying attention to the traffic signals, even when waiting, and be prepared to proceed when the light changes.
It will not reduce accidents. A car running a yellow is not dangerous, unless the waiting drivers can have a head start and leap out into the intersection a nanosecond after the light changes. In fact, drivers hitting the gas a second before the light changes will be a worse menace than yellow-light runners a second after the light changes. You're just robbing Peter to pay Paul, who will keep on colliding in the intersection.
Yellow light runners do not cause accidents, they cause tickets, which nowadays is the whole reason for even having traffic lights and traffic controls. City budgets need for the system to be as ambiguous and surprising as possible. Don't talk about safety, that is not the issue, money is.
Personally, I've had it up to here with all these carmakers and their razzle-dazzle crap that they are pitching, claiming that their cars or the experience of driving them is advanced in any way, except maybe to help drivers who are too moronic, incompetent or distracted to drive safely and properly in the first place.
Here in Los Angeles, our traffic lights are set up just the opposite.
They flash telling how many seconds are left before the light turns red.
Bob.
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