Category: | General road environment: Other (infrastructure-related) |
Tags: | cambridge, cherryhintonroad, trafficlights |
Date time: | 1.01pm, Thursday 25th March, 2021 |
Time line: | Earlier | Later |
Facing: | West |
Added by: | timbo |
Copyright: | CC Attribution-Share Alike (by-sa) |
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Credit: | timbo |
Area: | Cambridge |
These traffic lights and at Hills Road in the distance are to be controlled by AI which will apparently distinguish different types of road user - perhaps even cyclists?
Cambridge Independent article:
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-s-smart-traffic-signals-artificial-intelligence-u-9192315/
has the line: "Using machine learning, the new signals will, over time, learn what works best to manage traffic flows more effectively." so it's not about safety.
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