Or we could build a new city from the ground up so everything is run by the AI.
Your Psycho Pass is a little cloudy...
Those were human brains. That's cheating.
Wintermute then. :)
Yeah, until the huge satellite starts to mysteriously crash.
Did anyone else read The Supernaturalist?
Please! Imagine all the time, gas, and sanity wasted at red lights when there is absolutely no cross traffic!
Yeah, it's obvious there's a heluva lot of low hanging fruit in dynamically adjusting the traffic lights. Lots of them already even have cameras on them, it's just a software problem, and a problem worth scores (hundreds?) of millions to solve (in terms of gas, pollution, and time reductions).
Yeah, that are exactly the arguments used by companies selling "Intelligent Transportation Systems". After deployment: surprise - there aren't any noticeable changes, except for places that are performing worse and require manual tweaking. Also the best way to reduce traffic in city is to reduce vehicle flow into the city which only moves jams to other places.
Any chance you have some good links to read on this?
None of those companies are Google though.
I've actually taken some sociology classes about this and the professor was a physicist who went into sociology and he used a lot of maths and modeling to tackle this problem in a local city. Unfortunately I do not have any data on this anymore but I remember it being surprisingly complex because human behaviour plays a big role, but there are massive improvements to be made with traffic lights, and so he did.
And then a city councilman hits 3 red lights in a row, blames the AI, and ends the program.
And they didn't even start changing the timing of any of the lights yet!