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by pugworthy 2187 days ago
As simple as this sounds, there are ramifications. It might make sense for YOU at that light at the time, but does it make sense for the greater good of flow?

Off hand, I'd say lights are often timed such that once you get one green you get a lot of greens, then you're asking for more stop and go traffic simply because someone showed up and threw off the sequence.

Take away that and you gain some benefits, but you also lose in other areas.

Not an easy problem.

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> Not an easy problem.

That's what AI is good at. Besides, isn't a little incongruous to argue that the optimal solution for a complex optimization problem is a 1950's egg timer?