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[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

As always, such systems need infrastructure investment to make them widespread.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You make it sound like the AI traffic lights will just magically download themselves onto the grid?

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[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago

How do I make it sound like that? You first need to build traffic light and road infrastructure that can handle advanced traffic flow, along with the processing power to make decisions based on sensor readings and rules.

The software (AI is kinda overkill) exists to handle and optimise traffic flow over an entire city, but your software does not matter if there are insufficient sensors for the software to make decisions, or too few controllable lights to implement decisions (or both).

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[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 point 2 years ago*

What they're saying is if money was adequately invested in infrastructure, these old systems would have been upgraded 10 or 20 years ago and AI would not be necessary at all.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Thank goodness. until every intersection becomes this intuitive, I will only continually notice the ones that hold me hostage through several cycles and /or don't even notice I'm there waiting at a red light for 5 minutes at 3am when I'm the only car there.