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Traffic Control of the Future

petra13 writes "A high point of the Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems conference this past week was Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone's paper 'Multiagent Traffic Management: A Reservation-Based Intersection Control Mechanism.' They designed an automated system where cars reserve a time to pass through an intersection as they approach it and are then sped up or slowed down to ensure their arrival at exactly the right time. This allows traffic to enter the intersection from all directions simultaneously, eliminating the need for traffic lights and considerably reducing delays caused by stopping traffic. On their website, you can find Java applet simulations to illustrate the system. Especially impressive looking is the six lanes of heavy traffic in all directions simulation. I would love to see this in real life (from a safe distance of course)."

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  1. Re:I CAN'T believe I got FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe you failed it! Via panjo kacosucxigis mian kacon!

  2. corepirate nazi traffic .controll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you just tell 'em the same old scriptdead storIE(s), & they click on the payper liesense softwar gangster hypenosys c'mon?

  3. if you don't like somewon's address, just steal it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    like google trying to steal the web address (froogles.com) of some disabled shop keeper.

    talk about .controll freaks?

    between that, & corepirate nazi puppet robbIE's fauxking pateNTdead PostBlock censorship devise, which remains whoreabully infactdead, all that's missing is the softwar gangster stock markup FraUD execrable swastika(s)?

    as grandma would say, 'they all go through the same quill'. lookout bullow.

    all is not lost.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... successfully negotiating 'traffic' (as well as intervening on unprecedented evile) since/until forever. see you there?

  4. Lawyers by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This consideration is, in fact, what prevents a lot of possibly great stuff from happening. But if you even breathe the words "tort reform" you get branded a hyper right wingnut.

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    --- Ban humanity.