Weichai Power Unveils World’s First Diesel Engine with 53.09% Thermal Efficiency

[freebeard]

Want to see that on a fancy-schmancy website with parallax scrolling and everything?

https://connectedsignals.com/

This was started by Matt Ginsberg in Eugene, Oregon, (maybe a decade ago) who figured out tapping into the City's Traffic management Center. The whole story is here: www.digitaltrends.com: Stop wasting gas in the city with the app that knows when traffic lights will change

DuckDuckGo also shows some effort by Google called Green Light:

https://sites.research.google › greenlight
Green Light: Reduce Traffic Emissions with AI - Google Research
Green Light has become an essential component of Kolkata Traffic Police. It serves several valuable purposes which contribute to safer, more efficient, and organized traffic flow and has helped us to reduce gridlock at busy intersections. Since November 2022, we have implemented suggestions at 13 intersections.

https://blog.google › outreach-initiatives › sustainability › google-ai-project-greenlight
Google Research: How Project Green Light uses AI to reduce gas emissions
Jul 29, 2024The Green Light team used Google Maps' driving trends to create an AI model that measures how traffic flows through an intersection, including patterns of starting and stopping, average wait times at a traffic light, and coordination between adjacent intersections.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Want to see that on a fancy-schmancy website with parallax scrolling and everything?

https://connectedsignals.com/

This was started by Matt Ginsberg in Eugene, Oregon, (maybe a decade ago) who figured out tapping into the City's Traffic management Center. The whole story is here: www.digitaltrends.com: Stop wasting gas in the city with the app that knows when traffic lights will change

DuckDuckGo also shows some effort by Google called Green Light:

Wow!
Lets take this a step further:

How many times have you been stopped at a red traffic light, looking left and right and not a crossing car in sight!
If you never had to stop in the 1st place because the traffic lights are all aware of the fact that there's no crossing traffic etc...
We would all save millions of liters of gas!
And time!
In fact traffic lights would be way superior to stop streets.

The world has the tech to do this already.
This not only deserves it's own thread, it deserves a campaign where we all INSIST on it's implementation!

[freebeard]

That sounds like Green light, which I haven't looked into at ll. That would put the burden on the Traffic Management Center, to know where every vehicle is at all times.

Connected Signals is more of a route planning function in the vehicle itself. It finds the quickest route across town, based on current timing of the lights, road closures and etc.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

That sounds like Green light, which I haven't looked into at ll. That would put the burden on the Traffic Management Center, to know where every vehicle is at all times.

Connected Signals is more of a route planning function in the vehicle itself. It finds the quickest route across town, based on current timing of the lights, road closures and etc.

Green Light? I'll take a look.

I see no need for a GPS and cell tower triangulation etc to get the basics working for everyone.
Pressure sensors in the roads, at and between traffic lights and junctions , and the light's green for you if there's no one coming.

Then all the GPSing and wireless and what-not can and will be added.
But ye; GPSing and wireless and what-not were bound to come 1st.

Sad part is; we a thinking people haven't insisted on sensors etc considering the good that would do for fuel consumption and travel time. Time and Money...

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[freebeard]

Giving insight into the TMC enables route planning without additional infrastructure. Just knowing how slow to go to the next light saves gas.

Putting the burden onto the traffic lights themselves would require an autonomous intersection, something like an autonomous vehicle. Vision and AI to cover all the edge cases.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Logic

Obrist...Tesla consists of a two-cylinder, 1.0-liter gasoline engine

I still remember when the first Chevrolet Volt prototype was presented, and it was supposed to rely on a 3-cyl 1.0L engine for range-extending. Maybe it was fitted with the 1.4L for the production model as it would have to directly drive the wheels too...

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by Logic

Wow!
Lets take this a step further:

How many times have you been stopped at a red traffic light, looking left and right and not a crossing car in sight!
If you never had to stop in the 1st place because the traffic lights are all aware of the fact that there's no crossing traffic etc...
We would all save millions of liters of gas!
And time!
In fact traffic lights would be way superior to stop streets.

The world has the tech to do this already.
This not only deserves it's own thread, it deserves a campaign where we all INSIST on it's implementation!

You have been driving on Reno's ring road McCarran? 20 years ago, you could circle all day never stopping if you were driving 43 mph and caught the first light green.

[freebeard]

'Riding the green wave'

He's proposing breaking that. All demand lights all the time.

[Piotrsko]

I got that, but the McCarran ring loop has them and you stop for whatever stuff that triggered the light. At 4:30 am I have had to stop for nothing on both side streets and I was the only person on the road at that time, all 4 directions. Traffic engineer said I was hallucinating. Took a 20 minute commute and doubled it.

Did not mention all the lights are central computer controlled (supposedly)?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

No matter where, those supposedly central computer controlled traffic lights may have their downsides and failures too...