Engineering360: "Traffic, congestion may be reduced with AI traffic light system"

Anyone that has sat at a red light late at night with no cross traffic would appreciate this!

The damn machine vision cameras give all kinds of false positives and false negatives as well. I wish they would go back to the inductive sensors embedded within the pavement. Those worked so much better.

There was volume-density traffic signal controllers back when I took a course in traffic engineering and that was in the last century. I've often wondered why better systems haven't been used. I've also noticed that the traffic controls aren't changed until there's citizen pressure. We all know stories of people getting tickets for running a red light at 2 in the morning. And unsynchronized signals on high volume roads. Citizen protests sometimes works. We got the hated cameras that automatically give you a ticket for an intersection infraction removed. Beware, some cities still have them.