Traffic
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Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) communication will form one of the pillars of the self-driving car revolution - but it could offer benefits to human drivers in the interim, like this prototype system designed to help drivers get green lights wherever they go.
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The Boring Company was conceived as a solution to LA’s traffic woes, and the first people to benefit from its forward-thinking tunnel networks may be the city’s sports fans. The company today announced a proposed transport link between the LA Metro and Dodger Stadium.
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Researchers from MIT say that if drivers kept an even distance between cars rather than tailgating in order to push ahead, traffic flow would remain even. This "bilateral control," could double the speed of the average vehicle on busy highways.
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The Boring Company was dreamt up by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk as a way of solving traffic woes, and the notoriously choked up highways of LA are among its very first targets. With a proof-of-concept tube already underway, The Boring Company has now expanded on its plans for the City of Angels.
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Building a tunnel is a traditionally painstaking process that moves along at glacial pace, but The Boring Company believes it can get things done a whole lot quicker. And if an image shared by CEO Elon Musk over the week is anything to go by, it is wasting little time getting started.
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A descending platform for vehicles won't be the most difficult engineering problem that Elon Musk hopes to solve with The Boring Company. But progress is progress, and the multi-tasking CEO has shown off his latest step forward with a video of the company's car elevator in action.
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When Elon Musk started talking about digging tunnels as a way of avoiding traffic, a lot of people were hesitant to take the SpaceX CEO seriously. Not only is he now starting to convince the average joe that such a thing might be possible, but the people in power, too.
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Autonomous vehicles not only stand to make our lives safer, but could make them a whole lot more convenient as well. One example of this is a system that would see autonomous cars adapt their speed to cross intersections inside a safe "virtual bubble," without ever needing to come to a stop.
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The next time you're stuck in traffic, take heart because traffic jams may someday be a thing of the past. A team of researchers led by the University of Illinois have discovered that putting only a few self-driving cars on the road can dramatically improve traffic flow.
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Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is sharing yet another vision for the future and this time it's totally underground. The originator of the Hyperloop showed off a concept for escaping rush hour traffic via high-speed conveyance through a network of tunnels at TED in Vancouver on Friday.
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Two years ago Audi revealed it was working on an in-car system that would help drivers hit green lights, and though this type of convenience is a while off yet, the first iteration will be built into certain upcoming models to notify drivers of how long they have to wait for a red to turn green.
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A Beijing company is planning to move ahead with a track-based bus system that allows cars to pass underneath, an idea aimed at easing air pollution and congestion.
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