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SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights

Posted by timothy on from the green-is-so-much-more-beautiful dept.

cylonlover writes "Researchers at MIT and Princeton have now devised a system, dubbed SignalGuru (PDF), that gathers visual data from the cameras of a network of dashboard-mounted smartphones and tells drivers the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of lights." In their testing, the system saved drivers about 20 percent in fuel.

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  1. Re:First Red Light! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This will not work in the US. People here have the attention span of a three year old on amphetamines. They cannot understand the idea that they will not lose any time in their journey if they do not floor the gas pedal to get to that next red light as quick as possible. Hell, people cannot wait three seconds here to wait and put their crap on the grocer conveyor belt for fear of losing time at the check out.