XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 15/01/2014 10:53 am, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
   > On 01/13/2014 12:23 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >>   David Friedman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> One of my colleagues was involved in intelligent highway projects, and   
   >>> it sounded from her account as though they eventually concluded that the   
   >>> projects were unworkable.   
   >>   
   >> The problem with intelligent highways is that drivers remain   
   >> unintelligent.  And we're all to blame, in some ways.  Who among us   
   >> hasn't had the "bright" idea to change over to a faster moving lane or   
   >> take some other self-centered action?  Given human nature, it's almost a   
   >> guarantee that telling people that there will be a traffic slowdown 5   
   >> miles ahead would result in a lot of them gunning it in an attempt to   
   >> get ahead of everyone else.   
   >   
   > Interestingly, in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota),   
   > MN-DOT (the Minnesota Department of Transportation) has spent the last   
   > quarter-century adding more and more cameras, which are routed back to   
   > the RTMC (Regional Transportation Management Center), and making the   
   > information available to the public on a ten-minute periodicity during   
   > both the morning and afternoon rush hours. The net result of that has   
   > been to reduce (by miles) the backups caused by "events" on the metro   
   > area freeway system. People will go elsewhere, if they have the knowledge   
   > that there's something to be avoided.   
   >   
      
   And they are receiving this knowledge via the mobile phone they are   
   holding while driving?   
      
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