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Episode: Red, yellow, green β¦ and white? Smarter vehicles could mean big changes for the traffic light
Description: Researchers are exploring ways to use features in modern cars, such as GPS, to make traffic safer and more efficient. Eventually, the upgrades could do away entirely with the red, yellow, and green lights of today, ceding control to driverless cars.
Henry Liu, a civil engineering professor who is leading a study through the University of Michigan, said the rollout of a new traffic signal system could be a lot closer than people realize. βThe pace of artificial intelligence progress is very fast, and I think itβs coming,β he said.
The advent of connected and automated vehicles, though, has presen...