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muriel_volestrangler

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5. *and* "travel an extra 5.5 billion hours"

Reply to leveymg (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 4, 2015, 04:39 PM

Apr 2015

If you say their time costs an average $20/hour (a bit lower than the national figure), that's $110 billion, plus 2.9 billion gallons at $3.80 would get you $121 billion.

Having watched their simulation, I think I'd have to be blindfolded and sedated before I allowed a computer to take me across a junction at those speeds with those gaps.

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Road revolution by connecting vehicles: Computational framework for optimizing traffic flow [View all] Panich52 Apr 2015 OP

Why is it we always need new, expensive technology to solve a problem when Nay Apr 2015 #1

Really if drivers would use the every other car theory that yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #4

When did the price of gas go up to $40/gal? (2.9b gal/$121b) leveymg Apr 2015 #2

*and* "travel an extra 5.5 billion hours" muriel_volestrangler Apr 2015 #5

Interesting site, here: enlightenment Apr 2015 #3

I can think of a system that can be considered "connected vehicles" Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2015 #6