Audi claims to have developed a new software system to eliminate the need to wait at traffic lights.
Dubbed, ‘Travelution’, the system is intended to reduce the time spent at red lights by communicating with the car’s on-board control system, calculating the speed the driver needs to maintain to pass through the next set of traffic lights on green.
Currently, 46 traffic lights in Audi’s home town of Ingolstadt have been equipped with the system, which is working with a specially-equipped fleet of A5 and A6 mules.
Audi intends to extend the pilot scheme, which has already cost it £1 million, but there are no plans to introduce it on a wider basis.
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Re: Audi develops 'Travelution'
Re: Audi develops 'Travelution'
Forget the hi-falutin' technology. Scrap the t-lights and go back to roundabouts - or simply let the drivers make the decision as to when to cross. In these hard-pressed times, we need simple solutions, not expensive ones. T-lights just stop people from making progress. Hans Monderman would have had a thing or two to say about this, I'm sure...
Re: Audi develops 'Travelution'
Great idea, wrong direction of data flow, now a device that turn the lights green when YOU get to them, now we are talking!