Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption

thecarchik writes "New projects from German automakers Audi and BMW promise to ease congestion simply by looking at traffic signals and driving style, in an effort to smooth the flow of traffic. Through a test course in Munich, vehicles were able to post phenomenal fuel efficiency gains simply by adjusting the timing of traffic lights depending on traffic volume — to whatever speed provides a so-called 'green wave' of four or more synchronized signals."

Comments

Greenwashing

[MrEricSir]

BMW makes cars, which are not "green" by any standard. You want green, invest in buses, trains, bikes, etc. Not more cars.

This is pretty clearly a greenwashing attempt by BMW.

Re:Greenwashing

[pclminion]

Getting the public to switch to mass transit is hard. It involves convincing everybody to give up what they see as a fundamental part of their own independence. Optimizing fuel consumption with traffic signals is easy. It involves tweaking some code.

You sort of people piss me off. If the solution isn't your ideal solution, then fuck the solution. Fuck the environment, fuck the planet basically. You're more interested in idealism than actually helping anything. Or maybe you just enjoy gloating about your obvious moral superiority. Go jump off a bridge. And fuck yourself on the way down.

Re:Poorly designed vehicle detectors

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck you.

how about we make personal cars illegal

[cinnamon colbert]

say in 15 years, no more personal cars that would really do it for the enviroment; all this making cars green stuff is hypocritical; even when the are zero tailpipe emission (aka just as bad but you can fool yourself cause the emission is somewhere else) cars foster a lifestyle that is bad, bad, bad. I say, ban them altogether; cars are like heroin - just no reason to have em around

Re:It astounds me

[pcolaman]

You know what you call a motorcyclist? Organ donor.

Re:It astounds me

[pcolaman]

Just makes you an easier target.