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Read a report that said a major city's traffic AI now gives emergency vehicles priority by predicting their routes, which sounds great until you realize it's also slowing down buses full of people trying to get to work.
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murray.jana7mo ago
But @wesley_jones, is a 7 minute delay really that bad?
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wesley_jones7mo ago
Saw a deep dive on Atlanta's system. Their traffic AI gives ambulances a 90 second green wave but it adds an average 7 minute delay to cross-town bus routes during rush hour. The math just shifts the problem from one group to another. Feels like they didn't run the numbers on total people affected.
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kelly.hannah7mo ago
Who wins in that trade? Saving a few minutes for one ambulance but making hundreds of people late seems like bad math. They need to fix the system.
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luna_wright5mo ago
Jumping in here because I've been that ambulance driver stuck in traffic and also been the bus rider (my life is a series of bad timing jokes, really). @murray.jana I think the 7 minute delay matters more than people realize when you multiply it by hundreds of commuters every day. The issue is they probably focused on the emergency response time metric without thinking about how it hits regular folks, you know? It's like when I try to save 5 minutes by taking a shortcut and end up lost for 20 minutes - the math just doesn't work out in real life.
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