• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    It’s infuriating when a light turns red while only a few of the cars have gone though, makes sense a more intelligent algorithm would be more efficient.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s often the opposite, a traffic circle is much less intelligent but quite effective at increasing traffic flow. We can’t put them everywhere, but we should put them in more places.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      2 days ago

      I pass like 15 lights on my commute and the amount of time standing still for NO REASON is absolutely infuriating. How much could it possibly cost to add a simple sensor? No cars coming from the sides? Light stays green! But no, it’s all just dumb timers instead…

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 days 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.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          2 days 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.

        • 9bananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days 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.