Comment by dheera

Comment by dheera 5 days ago

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"pedestrians have to press the beg button, wait for the light to cycle through its routine, and then walk across the street"

Quite often what happens is

- Pedestrian presses button

- Light doesn't change for 30 seconds and there are no cars in sight

- Pedestrian goes "fuck it" and crosses

- Light changes red, after pedestrian is done crossing

- Car comes along and gets stopped at red light for 30 seconds

shepherdjerred 5 days ago

I wonder why these buttons don't immediately allow pedestrians to cross (maybe with some rate limiting to avoid abuse).

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  • dheera 5 days ago

    That, or even use sensors to detect pedestrians coming along that are likely to want to cross, estimate their crossing time based on their walking speed, and make their light turn "go" as soon as they hit the intersection.

    Some intersections have exactly this for cars already.

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