I always think that traffic is one of the great unifying forces of mankind.
We all have different love, desires, hobbies.
But one thing is to waste time without any need and stare at the brake lights.
How harmful is it?
A new report from the Texas A & M Transportation Institute said.
Sitting in traffic costs 5 billion people an hour for 2011 waves (
The last full year the researchers measured).
This means a loss of $121 billion in productivity.
This is a big problem if you are a city planner.
But it's also a huge opportunity if you're an engineer or a transportation innovator.
Transportation is one of the greatest inefficiencies in modern society, and given how wasted time is slowly idle, there is a lot of money waiting for a person or company to figure out how to make us move forward faster.
Fortunately, transportation is a subject that has been studied a lot.
Some advocates suggested that road capacity be increased. One or two new lanes will accommodate more cars to ease traffic jams.
However, the growing consensus among transport researchers shows that the problem is a capacity problem, which is unreasonable.
Each driver has his own risk tolerance.
This means stopping earlier than you should, or slowing down in an accident and slowing down everyone behind you.
They say you always have traffic before you take the individual away from driving.
To this end, engineers at Google and Stanford University's Automotive Innovation Lab have been working onSelf-promotiondriving car.
Vehicles and navigation systems basically provide you with the ability to drive, giving you the freedom to do other things you want to do.
Or for those who are blind, deaf or unable to drive for other reasons, the idea offers a valuable service.
But the next step after a simple driverless car is a smart car.
The transportation system, people are completely removed from the picture, and the computer network in our car allows us to get to where we need to go quickly and safely.
Imagine a highway full of cars traveling 80 miles an hour, only a few inches apart.
We will not talk about this topic for the next five years or even the next 20 years.
It will take decades to reshape a country's entire transportation infrastructure, not to mention ensuring that the new system covers the regulatory authority of all, and that an outsider will not make things a mess.
However, once everyone gets on the bus, the theory is that you can leave the traffic to people, how do people live?
Historical Archives.