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   Robert Bannister  wrote   
   > Michael F. Stemper wrote   
   >> Doc O'Leary wrote   
   >>> 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?   
      
   The GPS or smartphone receives it   
   automatically and routes you to avoid it.   
      
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