Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection Knows Exactly Who's in Your Car

nutzo said:
Maybe they should just build more REGULAR lanes instead of all the social engineering with more expensive carpool lanes? Then they wouldn't need to waste money on enforcement and research projects like this.
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Imagine the following scenario. Residential area on the south end of town. Commercial area on the north end. You have enough money to build and maintain two additional lanes.

Option A - You build two additional lanes. One for each direction.

In this scenario, you have reduced traffic congestion a little bit in the morning when everyone goes to work, and in the evening when everyone comes home. Your 30 minute commute is now 45 minutes each way. Better than the hour it was before the lane additions, but not as good as it could be.

Option B - You build two HOV lanes, and have them open northbound in the morning, and southbound in the evening.

In this scenario, you have reduced traffic congestion during its peak hours. Your 30 minute commute now takes just 30 minutes, and strongly encourages carpooling. During emergency situations, these lanes are open to all drivers.

This is how Denver does it, and it works very well.
 
TeeJayHoward said:
Imagine the following scenario. Residential area on the south end of town. Commercial area on the north end. You have enough money to build and maintain two additional lanes.

Option A - You build two additional lanes. One for each direction.

In this scenario, you have reduced traffic congestion a little bit in the morning when everyone goes to work, and in the evening when everyone comes home. Your 30 minute commute is now 45 minutes each way. Better than the hour it was before the lane additions, but not as good as it could be.

Option B - You build two HOV lanes, and have them open northbound in the morning, and southbound in the evening.

In this scenario, you have reduced traffic congestion during its peak hours. Your 30 minute commute now takes just 30 minutes, and strongly encourages carpooling. During emergency situations, these lanes are open to all drivers.

This is how Denver does it, and it works very well.
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Option C, you build an extra lane on each side, and simply mark it off with double-white lines, as this is very cheap and you have an option for emergency vehicles and motorcycles and the like to take at all hours of the day, and only have to worry about enforcement for people that abuse it... which this would solve.

That's what Houston has right now, but its only about 30% authorized vehicles, and about 70% trying to beat traffic because they are more important than everyone else.

Eventually, HOV lanes without any doubt in my mind will be the first lanes that are also designated as self-driving vehicle lanes. Self-driving vehicles that also communicate with one another should in theory be able to bunch up very closely together at speed, reducing drag and improving fuel economy, while also reducing congestion since you can fit more cars efficiently in a given space. Self-driving cars would then split off when their destination on GPS indicates they should and alert the driver to take control with audible and visual queues 10 seconds before releasing control.
 
Option D: Just shoot all the tree-huggers so there's fewer hippies on the road, and thus less traffic congestion. Target the carpool lane first and you can nail 4-6 at a time. Send a 30MM DU round down the bike lane and you can peg 100. Now that's efficiency! :D
 
Phoenix333 said:
Option D: Just shoot all the tree-huggers so there's fewer hippies on the road, and thus less traffic congestion. Target the carpool lane first and you can nail 4-6 at a time. Send a 30MM DU round down the bike lane and you can peg 100. Now that's efficiency! :D
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Option E: Implement more difficult driving tests so licenses are restricted to get all the inbred rednecks off the road, and thus reduce congestion. Make said rednecks drink local well water and eat local game in their polluted neighborhoods since they don't give a damn about "crapping where they eat", in order to decrease fertility and increase infancy mortality rates. Now that's efficient! :D
 
Heck with it. Thermonuclear every city. Skynet can run things more efficiently than anyone. :p
 
Phoenix333 said:
Skynet can run things more efficiently than anyone. :p
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You know, in all honesty, I would like to see humans removed from government decision making, and my only REAL fear with a skynet type system is that of human interference... that 1%ers would program it or interfere with its operation so that instead of acting in the greater good in all decision making, it favored their interests.

Watch Appleseed and check out the GAIA concept:
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Honestly, the world would be a much better place if a centralized impartial logical AI would direct all the human factions for the greater good, since it would be free from influence by special interests, self-interest, and corruption in a bureaucracy... because face it, while humans are generally very smart, they are also assholes. :D
 
Ducman69 said:
Option E: Implement more difficult driving tests so licenses are restricted to get all the inbred rednecks and old people off the road, and thus reduce congestion. Make said rednecks drink local well water and eat local game in their polluted neighborhoods since they don't give a damn about "crapping where they eat", in order to decrease fertility and increase infancy mortality rates. Now that's efficient! :D
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Maybe the U.S. needs a much more efficient public transportation system. Politicians don't use public transport so they don't care.
 
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