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Friday, September 19, 2008
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.
George Barrow
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