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Humans, being creatures of habit, usually drive their cars on familiar roads, to familiar destinations. This results in familiar traffic jams.
The Fool-efficient Car is a new twist on an old problem. The car is fitted with a GPS that downloads live info on traffic density and employs programming
that does not rely on a route recording vehicle having passed on the usual arterial route to any given destination.
In short, it assesses the condition of the major arterial routes vs backroads and takes control of the car, leaving the "driver" to manage the fine detail of dodging other cars, keepiing the car on the straight and narrow and making precise turns.
The result is optimum usage of the existing road networks; reduction of traffic jams and reduced driver stress and aggravation.
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<Spooky moment> This is my 666th idea, according to my Vanity view search </Sm> |
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" assesses the condition of the major arterial routes vs backroads and takes control of the car, leaving the "driver" to manage the fine detail of dodging other cars, keepiing the car on the straight and narrow and making precise turns.
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I sense some potential conflicts between the "we ARE using the frontage road INSTEAD of the freeway" and the "you're responsible for missing all the obstacles" parts of the system. |
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Sounds more like a challenging real life-and-death video game than a useful piece of tech. |
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Don't traffic-aware GPSs exist? |
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666th idea and a very bad idea indeed. We want the cars on the major arterial routes and not on the backroads.
So there is a traffic jam, yes, but that is nothing compared to the ultimate chaos that will follow if people actually start plotting their very own route to work.
Small towns and quiet streets get flooded with traffic. It is only a matter of time before a truck gets stuck on a corner that was too narrow and crowds will gather. |
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A line of cars in the middle of nowhere. A cold, dark monday morning. The people won't stand for it anymore. The sound of car windows being smashed. Death and carnage. |
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This works only if few drivers are doing it... i.e. best reserved for savvy locals, and excluding fools with GPS |
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Public unrest is just soooo passe. |
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[-] backroads can't even handel an order of magnitude less traffic. |
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I used to use a combination of backroads and total ignorance of speed limits and right-of-way laws to get to work each day (i could get 2/3 of the way to the office downtown without travelling on a major road), but if more than 2-3 people were doing the same thing at the same time it wouldn't work. |
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