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Uber revolution will not last

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Re: Uber revolution will not last

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Those cars are registered and taxed to the state, county, and city where the driver lives. These aren't scofflaws driving in from out of town- the municipalities are getting at least their fare share from the drivers to maintain the roads.

"fare share" I assume this was an accident, but it's actually better.

Ha, Freudian slip I guess.

Re: Uber revolution will not last

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I won't believe cities are serious about reducing congestion until they fix the traffic lights to dynamically maximize flow. No, it isn't done already. Too often, I am in a platoon of 20 cars that has to slam to a stop so one car can cross the intersection on the cross street, and then there's yet another minute of red with nobody in the intersection. You'd think with cameras already installed on the lights that this…

> I won't believe cities are serious about reducing congestion until they fix the traffic lights to dynamically maximize flow. > No, it isn't done already. Its obviously not done most places yet, but adaptive traffic control [0] is a thing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_traffic_control

That link leads to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSync_adaptive_traffic_contro...

which is exactly the kind of system I've thought of. I didn't know it existed. Thanks for the pointer! This is great news.

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