Next lowest form of life

around lunchtime on Monday, the 6th of December 2004 by Chad

After lawyers, that is…
I vote for the traffic engineers. Now, I’m sure they’re nice people doing a hard job, but there has to be a better way of managing traffic than making sure that no matter where you go, once you hit one red light, you will hit every single red light as long as you stay on that road.
But once again, technology may have a solution. Slashdot has a link to an article about self-adapting stoplights. If you were part of a group of cars approaching a red light, inexpensive traffic-flow sensors would detect your group in advance and turn the light to green.
Sounds like good stuff. What are they waiting for?