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Audi’s Traffic Light Sensor Lets You Catch All the Greens

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16 pointsrbanffy10 comments

This will instigate road rage when the car tells you to go 15 in a 30 because that’s the only way to “ride the green wave.”

Maybe, but this segues nicely into a connected car self driving system where self driving cars can make adjustments to their own driving patterns to hit more green lights and reduce congestion.

What I'm wondering is if it'll tell you to speed because that's the only way to break the cycle of getting stuck at every red light.

Going slower would accomplish the same goal, save fuel, increase safety, and probably lots of other things that will look nice in the marketing brochure for this feature.

Not necessarily. Going 5mph on a busy street is surely much more dangerous than going 5mph over the speed limit (remember, most other drivers are also probably going at least 5mph over).

I completely disagree. Please don't go 5 over in places with pedestrians and stoplights.

This behavior is completely routine in every American city today. You're tilting at windmills.

going slow definitely should not be dangerous. speeding is dangerous. there is slight difference between city and highway infractructure. almost everyone forget that "speed limit" is not "recommended speed".

lets not stigmatize innocent people, and pursue those, who actually are breaking the law

No, because you can't reasonably ticket people for going only 5mph over. There's a reason almost no cops bother doing so, and set their threshold at 9 or 10 over: car speedometers aren't that accurate, cars can easily vary their speed a few mph as they drive, radar is only so accurate, etc.

And yes, "speed limit" really is "recommended speed", because that's how people drive in the US today. You wishing it were different will not make it so.

I've always been curious why the green wave speed is posted anywhere, especially in suburban areas. A couple roads with bike lanes in denver have a posted green wave speed for bikes (often ~13mph). It wouldn't be a huge benefit, but could be more pleasant for drivers to also have that information.

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