virtual traffic lights

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:44 pm

Could be awesome with proper implementation. Which means every level of gov't will fuck it up in every way possible and you'll have intersections with all the lights being perma-red.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:57 pm

I'll trust that to work once we remove drivers from the equation.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:02 pm

TheCatt wrote:I'll trust that to work once we remove drivers from the equation.

Works great until the power's out.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:02 pm

TheCatt wrote:I'll trust that to work once we remove drivers from the equation.

I've always said there should be a penalty for people who cause traffic due to recklessness. A straight perpetrator-to-1500-victims payment. Peeps would get a lot more careful.

I came up with that back in Memphis, in my daily traffic jam because some shithead didn't know how to look before he merged.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:09 pm

I've always said there should be a penalty for people who cause traffic due to recklessness.

I'd love to be able to track down and assign responsibility for that, but it's goddamn near impossible. I'd settle for the cops pulling over people who are driving in the passing lanes yet seem to get overtaken by everyone to around them.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:19 pm

Malcolm wrote:
I've always said there should be a penalty for people who cause traffic due to recklessness.
I'd love to be able to track down and assign responsibility for that, but it's goddamn near impossible. I'd settle for the cops pulling over people who are driving in the passing lanes yet seem to get overtaken by everyone to around them.

I envisioned an app. Someone drives like an idiot, causes traffic problems. Cop says, "Yep, you suck," and activates the penalty. Tard loses X, and everyone running that app in that traffic jam receives share of X. Fuck man, even 2 bucks would improve my mood, just knowing the tard got dinged for some cash. There needs to be some sort of recompense when one fucking idiot costs 5000 people 20 minutes each, and not just some fine to the city for reckless driving.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:34 pm

There needs to be some sort of recompense when one fucking idiot costs 5000 people 20 minutes each, and not just some fine to the city for reckless driving.

Determining the cause is a bitch and even if you could, it would get rolled into insurance and your rates would go so high that they'd make the medical malpractice variety look affordable. Then there are times when the cause isn't another citizen. How about when the cause of a traffic jam is a cop being a dick by:

1) Causing everyone behind them to slow down to the speed limit or lower

2) Feeling the need to pull someone over to meet his monthly ticket quota and promptly sucks up half the lanes available for everyone else, probably during rush hour.

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Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:48 pm

Yeah, it's tricky. But it sure would be nice.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:51 pm

GORDON wrote:Yeah, it's tricky. But it sure would be nice.

Would be interesting to see what the Geico "good driver" USB plug-in tool thingy uses to judge your vehicular operational competency.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:06 pm

Malcolm wrote:
GORDON wrote:Yeah, it's tricky. But it sure would be nice.
Would be interesting to see what the Geico "good driver" USB plug-in tool thingy uses to judge your vehicular operational competency.

I did the Progressive one. I could basically track every car online within about 20 minutes of whatever action. Shows time, speed, breaking, how hard the breaking was, and time traveled.

After a few months they told be I could send the transmitters back and they knocked about 20% off my bill.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:11 pm

Shows time, speed, breaking, how hard the breaking was, and time traveled.

How do they know if you had to come to a screeching halt because of your dumb ass or the dude in front of you driving his antique 1983 Buick Skylark?

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Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:30 pm

Doesn't matter, and the criteria for what constituted a "hard brake" was pretty tight. For the time the sensor was in my car I had to make much more gradual stops in my speed than I was used to. Like, you had a 75% full bucket of water in your front seat and didn't want to spill it.

The more "hard brakes" you had, the less of a discount you would get.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:55 pm

Interesting. I wonder where they got the "good driver" gold standard criteria.