Level 6 Autonomous Driving Concept, & An Appeal To Elon Musk To Make Smart Traffic Lights
Dumb traffic lights could be a thing of the past, and relatively soon. The technology exists to make it happen. Guess who has this technology? Elon Musk and Tesla.
As a part of the endeavor to create autonomous vehicles, Tesla has created cameras that can recognize all of the items needed to make smart lights a reality. These include: small cars, big vehicles (SUV), buses, vans, semi trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, pedestrians, bike lanes, bicycles, dogs, road cones, solid lines, dashed lines, double lines, stop markings on the road, arrows on the road, trashcans, railroad crossings, lane poles, parking spaces, and parking signs.
While there are more parts of the puzzle needed, the large portion of the work has been completed. Many large intersections where this technology would be utilized already have traffic cameras installed that have fine enough vision to capture license plate characters.
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