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I don't think that would work in Nashua or a lot of other places.
All our lights are run off trip sensors in the roads, not timers.
If no car is in the side road, the main road stays green.
The side roads stay red until a car is on the sensor.

 

pretty cool stuff.

 

Sounds pretty neat. Where I live the lights are on sensors, too. Sorry, where I live has 2 lights! Meant places I go to.

 

Moved to the off-topic section.

 

Yeah, let's put yet ANOTHER device that a person doesn't look at the road but watches to be sure the dang light is missed. GPS, cell phone, radio, billboards... yep, we need more distractions.

/my lawn. Get off it.
//Not really all that crabby about it, but when one is a motorcyclist, and one almost runs himself into a semi going the opposite direction for a combined 100MPH pancaking simply because he was trying to listen to a phone call for a computer problem at work and got a teensy bit distracted thinking about the problem... one determines that KISS is best in all aspects of road motoring, ergo he has as little as possible to distract him these days in the car and motorcycle.
///My longest slashy ever. Praise me. PRAISE ME.
////GPS is bad enough. I really don't like having it, but sometimes, you got to know where you are. It's mounted squarely in line of sight, and it still is too much distraction sometimes.

 

Sounds good on paper, but I don't think it'll work very well in most places. I can speed up and slow down on my own to predict the lights...until some ******* beats me to the light and it changes mine to red.

 

I don't think whether it's timer or sensor is what matters, its the near real time updates the app feeds into your smartphone app. Sure it would be 'easier' to process data for a static timed grid, but the key to this working would be to have enough data sources, i.e. users in a given area actively using the app.

I lived in Nashua for a time and I know that come rush hour, some lights just queue up so bad that it wouldn't really matter during crunch time. However a town like Manchester that has more of your traditional grid layout downtown might be beneficial.

 

Even if lots of people used it...If the traffic is light, the *1* person pulling out of a drive thru is gonna mess you up. If traffic is heavy, then it doesn't really matter what you do...you're at the mercy of the idiots driving around you. I just don't see that system working very well with sensors anywhere.