XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: michael.stemper@gmail.com
On 01/15/2014 08:55 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> Robert Bannister wrote
>> Michael F. Stemper wrote
>>> Doc O'Leary wrote
>>>> 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?
No. 25 years ago, phones didn't do that sort of thing, and very few people
had mobiles anyway.
> The GPS or smartphone receives it
> automatically and routes you to avoid it.
No special equipment needed. It comes over the radio (KBEM-FM, Jazz 88) and
your
brain reroutes you.
--
Michael F. Stemper
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Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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