Modern day "light timing"  I want one for my bike.
Audi

I see lawsuits

the gauge said I could make it.... I didnt mean to kill that family.

Quote from: Ducatiloo on July 24, 2008, 11:43:02 AM
Modern day "light timing"  I want one for my bike.
Audi

If you can track the lights, then the system can track you. 

I love Audi.

<3

Quote from: bobspapa on July 24, 2008, 11:48:17 AM
I see lawsuits

the gauge said I could make it.... I didnt mean to kill that family.

Ok so an IQ test will be mandatory with this option.

Quote from: Ducatiloo on July 24, 2008, 12:20:37 PM
Ok so an IQ test will be mandatory with this option.

+1,  I worked on Audis and most people couldn't figure out how to use the cruise control of MMI interface let alone be  able to figure something like this out though. 

Pretty cool feature.

Quote from: metallimonster on July 24, 2008, 12:27:32 PM
+1,  I worked on Audis and most people couldn't figure out how to use the cruise control of MMI interface let alone be  able to figure something like this out though. 

Pretty cool feature.

This is just another gadget for people who should not be issued a drivers license in the first place. Just because a person can "operate" a motor vehicle doesn't mean they can properly control said vehicle.

I think the money invested in designing this system would of been better put to use if you paid a guy to drive around the city and draw up a new traffic light scheme.

Do you ever wonder why the lights are GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED every block? Because i cant find an explination for situations like that.

In school we took a traffic engineering class in third year. I was expecting some scientific set of piecewise functions and differentials to determine the optimal timing of lights.

I was wrong. There isn't a whole lot that goes into it. (at least in this town anyway). There a computer simulation programs but they are super time intensive (from the user) and more often than not it's just trial and error. mostly error i think. 

Quote from: He Man on July 24, 2008, 01:12:43 PM


Do you ever wonder why the lights are GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED every block? Because i cant find an explination for situations like that.

it's how the "man" keeps you in check

Quote from: He Man on July 24, 2008, 01:12:43 PM
Do you ever wonder why the lights are GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED/GREEN/RED every block? Because i cant find an explination for situations like that.

I though for some optimized streets, you keep hitting red lights if you travel too fast.  so if you were going speed limit then once you hit a green, then then next light will turn green right when you get there.

Quote from: CDawg on July 24, 2008, 02:05:37 PM
I though for some optimized streets, you keep hitting red lights if you travel too fast.  so if you were going speed limit then once you hit a green, then then next light will turn green right when you get there.

I've tried that in the town I work in, it only works if they reset the timing of the lights as they added new ones.
By learning from the cops I have discovered 45 mph in the 25 will get you 3 out of 6 greens 

They could be actuated lights, based on how the queues measure up, or perhaps it's due to another street being timed and this one being subservient (so to speak). Or they could be dumb signals.

It's a main st with little roads that go to McD's kfc etc.  Dumb signals

In NYC, CDwag, you should understand this,

they are ALL computer controlled by a box on every other block. Heres the mental image...

5 miles of busy straight avenue. 3 lanes, a 6 foot wide subway vent as a divder, and then another 3 lanes of opposing traffic. 4th ave brooklyn is a very high voulme traffic route for trucks and cars that come of the verrazanno or just by people who live in the area.

can you speed? not really, too many cracks, bump and kids running into the streets + crazy drivers who think they can make the turn. When the lights are all green and empty, people still dont speed because there are 2 precincts on that stretch. And if you do speed, its nothing crazy. 40-55 in a 35mph zone. Your not likely to get pulled over.

How do the lights run in rush hour? Well inmagine your sitting in the car, and the green lights open foward, not towarads you. What does that mean? when YOUR light turns green. The one ahead of you is red. WHAT THE make the beast with two backs. That means YOU STILL CANT MOVE CAUSE THE 6,000 cars ahead of you are still trapped in a redlight. This fultility continues from 86th street all the way to 18th street. Heres another kick in the nuts. on 18th street when the lights are red, 17th street is green, and then comes prospect ave. Prospect ave is another major cross street that is a block away form the entrance to the Brooklyn-Queens express way, that leads to the battery tunnel. That means cars are piling up all 3 lanes to make that left hand turn onto the BQE, and the funny part? The lights here change very often. i mean every 30 seconds often. So trucks are always trying to cut people off, and all yo uget is a massive blair of horns and angry people who dont know how to drive.

Recently they just ditched the whole light system and just left all 4 directions flashing yellow. on 4th ave, it isnt a problem since there are many many gaps due to hte retarded lights. but on 17th street, (the exit to the bqe) there is a never ended trail of cars, and they dont want to let the 4th ave guys past. Then theres a fender bender an neither party wants to move their cars, so the cops and can come take a look at what happened etc.

That audi system would BLOW UP once it hit nyc. "YOU CAN MAKE IT!! NO WAIT AHHH!!!!!!! MALFUNCTION!!!!"