@ 5:50 "Los Angeles is the first city in the world to fully synchronise all of its traffic signals". INCORRECT. Sydney, Australia did this in the 1970's. Over 300 cities around the world have purchased the same software to use on their traffic signals. The system is the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.
I love how this video praises LA for syncing its traffic lights to reduce congestion but LA is also known for being one of the worst cities for traffic and being congested. Only further proves the point that we should be building dense walkable cities that don't depend on the car to get you around.
Well LA is also know for example most of LA has walk ways already and most Road are still congested because your infrastructure sucks. The light system only helps a little in the over all gains of things.
Here in the Netherlands we quite commonly have green wave traffic signals, they are synchronized lights but across very long stretches of roads. The idea is that a sign indicates you a recommended driving speed and if you remain driving at that speed you should (not always) end up at a green light at the next intersection, so you can keep driving through. I have to drive through one of these waves when entering Eindhoven which is almost 2 kilometers in length, with 3 traffic signals which ends up in a roundabout
Yea in Quebec Canada the is often these synced lights on long stretches . i thought this was necessary for traffic lights to work on main streets"cities , weird the USA didnt have this !
Plastic roads will probably result in a *lot* more microplastic in the air Edit at 3:26 in the video: Didn't watch this video before commenting. Just provided my thoughts as is because most other videos going over the topic didn't address the microplastic problem. Glad to see a channel finally go over that issue instead of sweeping it under the rug
The first time I experienced linked traffic signals was in the early 80s, Dortmund in Germany had them. The Autobahn flowed straight into the main route through the city, each set of lights was linked, you stuck to the limit you'd only get stopped at one set, then return to the Autobahn outside the city and back up to speed. The results: slow moving traffic through the city, lower emissions, improved fuel economy. I have to say, it could be nerve wracking approaching a set of lights at 50 KPH thinking: change, Change, CHANGE!!! but they always did.
The Netherlands has those aswell and also combines with the traffic lights for bycicle lanes and pedestrians. There are several YT video's about it made by (Americans) to compare to US road systems.
@@d3al3rplays68 They even have rain sensors for bicycle pads and closed garbage containers with sensors when they're full. Roundabouts which speed up traffic too. This isn't new technology at all this has been there for years and years. The US is in all traffic infrastructure is decades behind the rest of the world.
It’s tiny and it has moderate weather compared to most other places. I’m not surprised they sit around thinking up untenable ideas that don’t work in those places :-)
And India! That's it. Still finding ways to blame "plastics"! Before "plastics", we didn't NEED plastics! Glass containers and paper bags! The ONLY reason we have plastics pollution is GREEDY companies! All of these concerns were addressed 60 years ago, so I guess they decided to screw us and keep the money!
@@Matt-yg8ub We are also a high density country while still having a good amount of nature. If this stuff works here in the Netherlands, it will work in practically any city in the US. That is, once the car industry stops bribing your government to make everything a suburban wasteland where owning a car is mandatory to live a normal life. Oh, and moderate weather? The only moderate thing about our weather is the temperature. We regularly have winds strong enough to blow branches from trees and rain that is heavy enough to make it look like you stood under a shower with your clothes on.
@@rendomstranger8698 Now combine that wind and rain with -40 temperatures In winter and see how many people want to bike to work. I spent 12 hours plowing snow yesterday. Even when we are being extremely careful, it still does damage to the road surface. I hit the lip of a manhole yesterday it only sticks up about half an inch but if you catch it just right…the whole front of your truck stops dead until the spring lip on the plow pops loose. Thermal cycling causes material fatigue… Everything breaks down over time and that’s why most of these road designs are simply infeasible in the American Midwest
@@Matt-yg8ub You mean conditions that happen in only a fraction of North America for less than 1% of the year on average? The heat in the South of the US is a better argument than that. Oh, and guess what. We here in the Netherlands still cycle in comparable weather conditions.
The UK has had a solution for marking roads where there's no street lights for decades, they're called cat's eyes and they do the job fantastically since they use no power and are self cleaning.
An advantage to glow in the dark lines is that they can shine through light snow and heavy rains that could reduce the visibility of the retroreflective paint currently standard. Bellingham, Washington has had synchronized traffic lights for several decades. LA may be the first LARGE city to use it, but it's certainly not the first ever.
True for very light snow....but much like today LED traffic lights when covered in a snow storm, there is no heat from the incandesant bulbs to keep the snow melted off the lens of the lamp. Those lights become impossible to see.
I like the idea a lot, not that it would work where I live, but I like it for most normal climate places. I live in Canada, and a good three months are -40 or worse, with snow and ice stacked on top of each other, and then still pretty covered for another 2-3 months. As it is, for the six months of "clear" weather that we have, we have to repave our entire city over again. When I used to live in the Southwest United States, it would have been incredibly useful. The weather was virtually always clear, and so they would have been of use virtually every night of the year. Probably could save a lot of lives out there.
So in the winter there may be dark about 15:00, it glows 8h (probably full glow is 3-5h and then it slowly stops)... so after 23:00 we have 7-8h without light, great...
I remember watching a program on PBS about 15 years ago about scientists who incorporated rubber from used car tires into tar that allowed roads to last 20 years longer because they could flex with weather changes. They had already road tested for several years. Never heard anything about it again. I always suspected to concrete or tar industry of buying out that pattent and destroying it.
It was actually the very industry that the ide would benefit the most from the tech that bought it up and buried it. It wasn't concrete or tar, it was the transportation and construction companies. Even if a patent ends up in what should be the right hands, that doesn't mean it'll actually be put to use. Innovations that would improve the quality of a product and draw more initial sales are often avoided because they reduce repeat sales by increasing how long the product can go without servicing.
@@BowlofColdSoup Capitalism has nothing to do with it, it's purely because the government bodies negotiating the work try to save every penny they can by contracting out the work to the lowest bidder instead of paying a fair price or establishing and renewing long-term contracts. A roadworks company (or any construction company involved with roadways and paving) might not have any major work in a given year and so might need the pay from resurfacing state roads to pay their workers, if they do a quality job that lasts a very long time then it might not only cost them more money to do but it may also kick the state's next resurfacing project too far into the future for the company to survive. Capitalism means you get paid for your work, and it works well enough down at the commercial level. What alternative would you prefer, socialism like the Nazis which caused WWII and then directly led to their loss, or communism like in China where the government controls everything with an iron fist and will seal people inside their homes without a second thought or permanently silence any who show discontent?
What you Marxists don't seem to understand is that socialism is just a monopoly where government inc. owns everything. If you actually go look where "Capitalism" starts going wrong. It's when governments over regulate, meddle in free competition and start getting tangled in communist style coercion and corruption. I am from a communist country the roads are undrivable and you literally get death threats from government contractors if you try to fill them yourself.
Synchronized traffic lights hav been there for some time & one of the main benefits is u hit the green on every light IF u maintain the speed limit , yes if the speed limit is 35 & u drive the speed limit u will see green all the way through , well thats the idea .
I love how we are getting to the point where we are just making everything more advanced. Like you think “how could a road get more advanced, it’s a flat asphalt track” but here we are.
Well it's like the simple premise of a watch... now look.. smart watches That started after the simply phone went smart.. people prophesised home telephones having the video link but look at where we are once we found a hidden frequency Same for microwaves A convection microwave, with the right method could could a chicken
Airlines across the world have found that more audible/visual warnings in the cockpit don't necessarily lead to an increase in safety - the audio-visual "clutter" actually distracts the pilot/driver from what needs to be done RIGHT NOW. I already find the proximity warning beeper in my car a distraction at critical moments and shudder to think what more intrusive alarms beyond my control will do to my ability to process what is going on.
It's like when a driver is trying to determine whether it is safe to pull onto traffic and the person behind them starts honking: yeah, interrupt their thought process, that'll help!
Reminds of when Ced The Entertainer was talking about the only time Black people turn down their music while driving (a spaceship in this scenario) is to parallel park.😏😏😏 But yes... most people need quiet to make critical decisions in urgent situations.
Great video. There is a parking lot in my home town that uses the motion controlled lights. The great thing about it is that it is a security light. If someone is in the lot late at night, it lights up, as well as saving money
My préférée method is a mix between hyper loops and gliding airplanes, small, don’t crash by nature, light enough for paraschutes, and can be propelled magnetically from the ground. Plus the wings could come off as it moves through the city
They tried the florescent road paint decades ago. Lasted a few months before it was causing "some" people to have issues and it was quickly painted back over. Was the best there was for seeing the road especially in the really dark nights.
Tru but in rule areas like forests that gets little traffic wouldn't make sense to have overhead lights. Also overhead lights stress out plant life because they dont get tru night so it slowly kills them.
Glowing Road strips are nothing more than your kids glow in the dark stars on a larger scale, they last for a couple hours MAYBE after you turn the lights out…. And would be a logistical nightmare to maintain and a legal liability because every time the paint failed and somebody crashed, the city will be getting sued for millions of dollars
The plastic road idea is great. Cities could run not just new pipes or lines under the road pretty easily, but also they could feed hot water pipes under the roads and cycle them through water heaters to melt snow in the winter.
I don't agree,because as the road is being used,from the wheels friction will result a constant waist of microplastic,wich will end up in the soil, water and in the air....would you like to breath microplastic dust?
@@Matt-yg8ub Just making conversation, no argument. But, Engineer? Stop thinking plastic toys, and start thinking high impact polycarbonates or ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWP). Those can be constructed out of some recycled plastics with a little chemistry.
Regarding more EV use in Europe vs North America. My Scottish colleague had told me this tale. His mom came to visit him in Canada. After he drove her a couple hundred kilometers sightseeing, she asked him if they had traveled to a different country.
@@jerrik-415 Same reason they don't understand why the US doesn't have the same mass transit options. We have open areas with next to nothing there bigger than some of their countries.
@@Redslayer86 As European I do understand this. But Americans should also be aware how their cities were designed and influenced by the automakers who advocated for suburbia as it increased the sale of cars and negated investment in mass transport. The entire east coast should be interlinked with high speed trains and mass transport systems - but it isn't...
@@craigstephens93 Not only that, but early US auto-makers actively bought up a lot of inner-city public transport (mainly tram systems) explicitly to shut them down to increase demand for cars even within cities.
@@craigstephens93 This is something I was trying to explain to someone and they told me that trains were history, airways are the future. Well, that's all well and fine but I would have to travel 3 to 4 hours by car to get to a major airport today. One hundred years ago I could have walked less than 5 minutes from my house and boarded a train and gone virtually anywhere I wanted to. I could have lived quite well without ever having to own a vehicle. Today I can't even travel the 10 miles (16 km) to the nearest shops without my own vehicle. Over they years they've eliminated the freight lines and I don't even think passenger service has been available here for 60 or 70 years. I've known people who travel to Florida for the winter and they had to drive several states to the south before they could load their car onto a passenger train and travel the rest of the way by rail. Rather than expand and improve our rail system it's been gradually eliminated. And granted, much of the industry that was keeping it going has also been eliminated in favor of sending it to foreign countries because it was more profitable for a few in the short-run but when you account for all that we've lost in the process it's been detrimental to the country in the long-run.
I've been a long haul truck driver for 4 years. I've been saying ALL THE TIME that they should make glow in the dark lanes and markings!! I want royalties 😀
Reflector is better. If the glow in the dark is covered during the day it won't glow at night. If the reflector is covered during the day it will still reflect at night.
That’s an excessive capital improvement cost…. Meaning that saving the average taxpayer 30 bucks a year in gas, doesn’t justify spending $20 million they don’t have in order to put in that system.
Even with the application of AI to LA’s synchronized traffic system they will still see unsustainable growth in traffic congestion until they change their focus towards public transport and walkable neighborhood based solutions, this much is mathematically certain. For more information I suggest reading strong towns.
No, the main problem is drive-through traffic that needs to be blocked off into its own lane for longer, similar to express/public train systems present in NYC. The traffic is almost always caused by crashes. The traffic would be greatly improved if there was a true express lane from one side of the city to the other. Splits traffic into 2 lanes/3 out of 5 lanes present. Traffic is also caused by cargo trucks going to and from Mexico. The last problem is how the synchronized lights on surface streets do not empty cars off the highways fast enough during peak times. Every time I've visited LA, there's always at least one exit that is completely jammed for at least half a mile.
You don't need to dig for a hyperloop if you've train infrastructure already. Only in the US you barely have train infrastructure. Countries in Europe could just replace trainrails with hyperloops.
Its funny when he mentioned the synchronized traffic lights i was telling at my screen "WE HAVE THOSE!" The system in Los Angeles is actually very well built. I personally believe our traffic problems stem from a cultural problem instead of a efficiency problem. What i like about our traffic lights is how intuitive, predictable, and safe they are.
Traffic signal synch also relies on drivers to drive at - or slightly UNDER - the posted speed limit! I live near the 'Post Road' in CT, where posted speed limits are typically 30 or 35mph. HA - if drivers are doing 40, in the right lane, they're honked at. They floor the gas away from one green light only to have to slam the brakes at the red one several blocks away.
When the authorities don't bother with potholes, you gotta question whether any of these ideas will actually become mainstream. Btw, geogrids have been around for years.
Not solar thin-film plastic roadways, they'd be destroyed in an hour or less of traffic. Unless the plastic were under some kind of mineral top. Glass that wears well, I just don't know...
i have & id endourse it even after the day i die 7 ensure all my fans,users,kids,friends 7 cousins know about this, even my own parents 7 sister knows about this!!!
My personal view on hyper loop would be that it's overly complicated and insanely dangerous to the point where a small error could kill everyone, it doesn't even have to crash, a leak caused by a malfunction or even someones purposeful actions would send air into the tube and if the pod collides with that it would be like hitting a wall going 700mph. It would be impossible to protect al the track so it would have to be underground at least. Then we also have natural disasters like earthquakes witch would also have the same effects. It being used to travel over oceans is also very unlikely as material stress and corrosion would cause similar problems to those mentioned above, this time with water instead of air witch is even worse. So in conclusion let's just go with normal trains or maglev for land travel and planes or ships for going across the ocean.
@@hanfucolorful9656 Yeah true, you should be able to just sit back and enjoy. It's one of the reasons why I really don't like cars, imo they are dangerous and create too much noise and pollution, also when you drive you need to constantly focus and it's mentally tiring.
@@panzervpl9406 That's why size of the windows of Chinese high speed train is 200% bigger than that of Japan. Pay attention to this next time you see a train video.
@@hanfucolorful9656 Ok? But seriously speaking, I'd prefer a fast, window-less vehicle than a slow, windowed vehicle. I care about the destination ,or else I would be moving in the first place.
And all of the hyperloop tests have been unsuccessful, they can’t seem to either pump out or maintain the vacuum even less dense atmosphere for as long as short tests, much less expanses that would allow for acceleration and deceleration time. The energy cost is so much higher, with so little chance of success, this would be some billionaire’s plaything, rather than a possible means of transit for any group of people.
Traffic lights that adjust the length of green according to volume. I've seen this system from about twenty years ago. It didn't catch on, but should. Another excellent, and in production idea are vehicles that drive roads to map pothole locations.
@@Themrine2013 Not every city has all the money in the world :-) timed lights have been around for 60 years because that’s how most municipalities deal with there being multiple different government agencies involved in the timing of an individual intersection. Take for example a state highway that serves as the boundary between two cities, that’s four different jurisdictions between the cities the county and the state for who gets to decide on the timing of those lights, one side of the street is a hospital in one city the other side of the shopping center in a different city and it’s a state highway running down the middle. Who gets priority? Who gets turn signals? It’s a giant dance that’s why everything has to be timed properly. It sounds good to put in a massive $40 million traffic control system full of sensors and components to take tremendous amount of maintenance in order to make a smart system adapt to traffic flows, or intersections can use a $300 timing system that allows them to flow during typical heavy traffic times.
@Trucker2019 I know one light that is green for precicely one second. It's a turn and the light to go straight stay on longer but God damnit I need the right of way longer than literally the time it takes me to notice the light has changed.
I've made this post every time I see flying cars mentioned, if you are driving your car and the engine fails you pull over to the side and call someone to fix it or fix it yourself no problem! If you are in your flying car and the engine fails you crash and burn, end of ALL your problems!!!
Oh be a sport, consider a reasonable set of chutes and ultracapacitors. And 40 kph winds. There's no reason they can't share their fate far and wide or have their autopilot gently bounce them off the backside of a hill to a less knocky stop.
@@davenordquist4663 well if they were flying over the local nuclear power plant taking a short cut to get back in time for the big game that would probably spread them far and wide I suppose
@@davedixon2068 I think that only applies in Nuclear, AZ otherwise it is merely an intrinsically safe reactor. Thanks for being the wind beneath our emergency glidepath wings.
The lines in the road are already reflective, if you drive down it with your headlights on you’re gonna see reflective lines. Trying to make photoluminescent roads it’s just a huge maintenance problem
You should try driving in Melbourne Australia, there is nothing but speed camera's with no signs to alert they are even there. The gps alerts to the speed camera's dont alert you to the camera's until after you have passed it. Are they making the roads safer or just pissing everyone off?
If they want people to drive slower, they should make the roads less wide and straight! Like there are a lot of places in the US where the speed limit lowers (or rises) on a certain stretch of road and yet other then the sign with different numbers, nothing else changes!
It only took 30 yrs to employ Glow in the Dark lines! Finally !! oh, 30 yrs because I thought of it 30 yrs ago and have been waiting for someone to try it. I think something GitD that is embedded into the asphalt would hold up a lot better than paint, though. That plastic Jigsaw road is really cool. That would be great to replace cement sidewalks in freezing states, like where I live. It may displace when frozen, just like cement, but it wouldn't break up and need to be replaced, just resettle back into place when the ice beneath it melts!
About that synchronised trafic signals. Have you looked into how the Netherlands conduct their traffic systems. this has been going on for over 20 years already and moving into the future with smart connected traffic management systems where road users of any type get and supply information from and to the system making it even more comprehansive as you go. Look into the 5 traffic management centres monitoring and managing all highway systems throught the land and into things like Flowtack managing and digitising the intirety of cities already.
Not even an honorable mention for Solar Roadways? They've been around a lot longer than most of these technologies and solve almost every problem your individual choices do. Come on, son.
The capital city of Edmonton in Alberta also uses synchronised traffic lights, even the bicycle traffic lights are also has the synchronised traffic lights too when cycling over the magnetic on the road
The syncing traffic lights Is GREAT for personal vehicles, but for us in semi trucks, or other vehicles that take a little bit to pick up speed it actually has the opposite effect, causing us to hit EVERY light as a red one as soon as we get stuck at one of them
I prefer the traffic controlled method of traffic light control widely used today instead of centrally controlled lights of any kind. A copper wire loop at intersections link to a nearby control box is all it takes. Well along with educational material going out to all drivers to raise awareness.
Question about the second design: wouldn't the webbing (and the open space it leaves) make the road prone to freezing faster? It seems like a design for potholes waiting to happen too.
it does not leave spaces. webs are filled with little stones most of the time, or sand or earth. note that the web always goes on top of geo textile. each element brings a feature / function, to improve the place. not just for roads. also useful for banks ... and when I say banks, I mean ... the 8m high mountains you may find around a bridge to support the higher road. practical engineering channel made several videos about geo textile and how it re enforces soft materials ( like metal bars in concrete )
@@ingridfong-daley5899 for the base : ruclips.net/video/0olpSN6_TCc/видео.html Its about geo textile, but the web has a similar purpose. But they are complementary, and used together under roads.
6:50 even if you slow WAY down, regular sleep bumps are very painful for people with back pain or injuries. If smooth enough and not overused, this could be helpful
Omg 😂😂😂 it’s been a while since I was back in San Diego. At 5:46…. I got really excited when a saw that…."hey that looks like San Diego"…. went on Google maps and confirmed….to only see that that it says San Diego in the bottom left corner.
17:07 Induction priority lanes Wouldn’t induction parking spaces be a good idea, too? Lots of people park on the street and don’t have access to in-garage, overnight parking stations. (And couldn’t any of these induction surface ideas be powered by renewables, e.g., wind or solar)?
Yeah and you just turned $300 worth of asphalt into $10,000 worth of electrical equipment buried under $3000 worth of specialty asphalt. Now 4 different utility companies, the water department, the stormwater authority, Streets maintenance and the gas company….. All have to raise their rates because every time they have to cut into a road to repair something that costs them 10 times as much to repair the damage.
Induction parking spaces are a great idea. Wouldn't be fast though, at least not with current technology. And yes they, just like anything on the grid could be powered with renewable energy, we have to get there first. Just ask Texas what happens when you ditch fossil fuels before the renewable tech is ready...
A few points to consider: 1) The hyperloop is bunk. It'll never work as advertised. 2) The self-repairing road would be HUGE! 3) Replacing some roads with plastic versions of the same thing seems to make sense. I can see highways being replaced after some tech improvements and why not use waste plastic? 4) The temp-sensitive paint exists now in, of all things, coffee mugs that have funny sayings on them visible only when filled with hot or cold drinks. Using them on potentially icy roads seems like a no-brainer. 5) Induction charging lanes would change the ev vehicle market completely. The biggest drawback with them is range and the charging lane would eliminate that. If they used solar power to make the thing work then it becomes zero emissions as well.
Personal planes will come eventually, but that's why they are pushing ai driving cars as if people have flying cars we can't have people drive them need ai to do that this way everyone won't need a flying license. And won't get traffic air jams as the cars can communicate with each other.
Elon Musk said he is working on something he says will be delivered in a couple of years? Which means someone else will deliver it and Musk will catch up in a couple of decades. He said "fully self-driving" would be available in Teslas...something like 5 years ago? It still hasn't happened and is nowhere in sight.
Solution for dealing with people running red lights: When the signal light turns red, spikes come up out of the road ahead of the crosswalk. Run the red light, blow the tires. (First responder vehicles would have a remote that would retract the spikes when they need to run the red light during an emergency.)
Roads are amazing, without roads cars cant drives, near of my home new roads and bridges has been completed and they are great new roads/bridges. Country roads take me home. Ps Futuristic roads sounds nice, Hyper bloops and The Sky IS Road in future. 🔥🔥
Have glowing outdoor countertops and lighted concrete pathways in yard using same material. Guess that weather sensitive paint will hard to see under snow and ice.
A bit hesitant about plastic roads, simply cause plastic melts really fast when it gets just a tad hot. Personally I wouldn't recommend it, especially in hot places since it would melt and become a fire and breathing hazard.
Just a bit? I haven't seen anything made of plastic, for use in construction and around the house, that has the durability and toughness remotely close to traditional materials. Low stress applications where its set and pretty much forget, such as siding and some plumbing, is all its good for. These roads would be as hard to dispose of (or recycle) as turbine blades are now. Pop Sci greenies that typically ignore so many other factors would love them though. They love stuff that is superficially Earth friendly, while ignoring issues such as the non-green manufacturing, short lifetimes, ease of maintenance, ease of repairs, and ultimately, disposal
And asphalt is 98% reusable, unlike plastic. Has better grip for tires than plastic, even when wet, and doesn’t leach/outgas/put micro plastics into our eco-system. You want to do something useful with plastics, find a way for them to be turned back into the oil they came from.
I'm not sure if Synchronized Traffic Signals are the way it will go, as you discribe it in this video... In the netherlands, Many trafficlights are "smart" traffic lights. With sensors in and around the road, an intersection will know how many cars and/or bikes are waiting and also knowing what the flow is of that intersection. It will determine which lights to prioritize and even switch it up, so others lanes can go at the same time. Near Highway exits, there are intersections that will communicate to the next one, to let the other one know how much traffic is coming that way, in which an intersection can decide to let others "quickly" go first before a large sum of cars are coming, which also means, the bigger line of cars do NOT get that priority they would normally get because in about 15 seconds they will be joined by more and then make that light be on green longer... difficult to explain,.. but think 'not just bikes' has some great videos on that... Those darn dutchies are ahead in so many things sometimes. ;D
Problem with electric vehicles is that where i live the main source of electricity is still biofuels (tree chips) or coal. Sometimes we get a wind speed that helps the grid, but not often. People think by driving electric vehicles here are better for the environment. Until we get away from the first two sources of electric energy is not so. I am a proponent of hydrogen cars instead. Once there are more tank stations and more competition these cars will be better for the environment. They have been put through the wringer in testing and safety, more so than electric cars, because of hydrogen power. They also refill faster, and their waste? Well its water H20.
i know right which better yet need hybirds akak hybrid solar,wind,battery, biofuel, hydrogen cell thus drivers can recharge their cars themslves = drive them themselves 7 not have to relay on co2 big powr companies or corrupt autonomous controller overlords + be mindful of the environment
How about more roundabouts (in the US) where there are so few compared to other countries. Helps to facilitate traffic flow compared to traffic lights, and normally decreases commute time.
I remember the infamous traffic circle in New Brunswick, N.J. where I was born 79 years ago. we used to go to the drive-in movies there. We never went through the circle when there wasn't an accident happening either before, during or immediately after we went through it. This was on the weekend, it must have been worse on the weekdays. They took it out.
@@topfives Also less braking and accelerating which is better for fuel consumption and the environment. We have a love/hate relationship with them here in the Netherlands cause we have so many.
I guess Im a time traveler because I remember these weird inventions on cars many decades ago called headlights...they magucaly lit up the road in front f you and those strange markings on the road that looked like painted lines that reflected the magic fairy dust from the headlights back to our eyes..and just like that you could actually see the road.....thank god for high tech future space age magic
People need to feel special. They don't feel special if their idea is more trains even if they are slow. They only feel special if their idea is super fast trains, with magic.
Years and years ago before there was much thought about electric cars, I had an idea about running mains electric cables under the roads, and cars would have inductive coils fitted under the floors that electrified the motors which propelled them along. This idea would eliminate the need for large capacity batteries which would be used on minor roads. HoHum.
*The future is here.* The UK is already introducing motion sensor interactive street lighting. It will greatly reduce light pollution. Also temperature sensitive ice warning signs.
Induction lanes would make EV's worse for the environment than internal combustion cars. Inductive charging has an efficiency rating of less than 50%. Most country's produce most of their energy by burning fossil fuels. This means that this extra inefficiencies will result in more emotions in the production of the electricity than what an internal combustion car would emit.
Low profile tires that are integral to some auto designs, suffer most with flat tire from deflating on the edge of a concealed pothole. Speed humps do encourage a reduction of speed
The “synchronized lights” have been around for decades in NYC. We call it “catching the green wave”. This is nothing new! But great video. Love road construction for some reason lol.
If that last induction technique was for the betterment of humanity it would be cheap and available, as would the vehicle👍🏻 but it isn't and they're not🤷🏼♂️ great video though❤️ new sub
They need to come up with something for road lines in countries that snows alot. 1/2 time here ,you have absolutely no clue where the lane is you just have to pray somones traces are not leading you offtrail lol ... also completely erases the lines on the cement after the melt. can take months before they redo them in summer !
I like everything except the inability to opt out of a road spying on, tracking me, and storing my data forever, which happens in big gub'mnt’s servers.
@ 5:50 "Los Angeles is the first city in the world to fully synchronise all of its traffic signals". INCORRECT. Sydney, Australia did this in the 1970's. Over 300 cities around the world have purchased the same software to use on their traffic signals. The system is the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.
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Reno, Nevada, Medford, Oregon & Redding California main roads were all synchronized at one time.
I love how this video praises LA for syncing its traffic lights to reduce congestion but LA is also known for being one of the worst cities for traffic and being congested. Only further proves the point that we should be building dense walkable cities that don't depend on the car to get you around.
If they didn’t think about money so much this could’ve been happened and our planet wouldn’t be so close to death
@@Smoxve dude shut up. Your statement is retarded for multiple thousands of reasons.
Well LA is also know for example most of LA has walk ways already and most Road are still congested because your infrastructure sucks. The light system only helps a little in the over all gains of things.
@@mrpumperknuckles1631 go detox you mad for nothing. This not even nothing to argue about. You got it
Walk? Walk? You expect me and my generation to walk? Dream on
Here in the Netherlands we quite commonly have green wave traffic signals, they are synchronized lights but across very long stretches of roads.
The idea is that a sign indicates you a recommended driving speed and if you remain driving at that speed you should (not always) end up at a green light at the next intersection, so you can keep driving through.
I have to drive through one of these waves when entering Eindhoven which is almost 2 kilometers in length, with 3 traffic signals which ends up in a roundabout
Yea in Quebec Canada the is often these synced lights on long stretches . i thought this was necessary for traffic lights to work on main streets"cities , weird the USA didnt have this !
Plastic roads will probably result in a *lot* more microplastic in the air
Edit at 3:26 in the video:
Didn't watch this video before commenting. Just provided my thoughts as is because most other videos going over the topic didn't address the microplastic problem. Glad to see a channel finally go over that issue instead of sweeping it under the rug
The first time I experienced linked traffic signals was in the early 80s, Dortmund in Germany had them. The Autobahn flowed straight into the main route through the city, each set of lights was linked, you stuck to the limit you'd only get stopped at one set, then return to the Autobahn outside the city and back up to speed.
The results: slow moving traffic through the city, lower emissions, improved fuel economy.
I have to say, it could be nerve wracking approaching a set of lights at 50 KPH thinking: change, Change, CHANGE!!! but they always did.
Interesting thanks for sharing
The Netherlands has those aswell and also combines with the traffic lights for bycicle lanes and pedestrians.
There are several YT video's about it made by (Americans) to compare to US road systems.
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@@d3al3rplays68 They even have rain sensors for bicycle pads and closed garbage containers with sensors when they're full. Roundabouts which speed up traffic too.
This isn't new technology at all this has been there for years and years. The US is in all traffic infrastructure is decades behind the rest of the world.
I love that a lot of the ideas are from my country, the Netherlands
It’s tiny and it has moderate weather compared to most other places. I’m not surprised they sit around thinking up untenable ideas that don’t work in those places :-)
And India! That's it. Still finding ways to blame "plastics"! Before "plastics", we didn't NEED plastics! Glass containers and paper bags! The ONLY reason we have plastics pollution is GREEDY companies! All of these concerns were addressed 60 years ago, so I guess they decided to screw us and keep the money!
@@Matt-yg8ub We are also a high density country while still having a good amount of nature. If this stuff works here in the Netherlands, it will work in practically any city in the US. That is, once the car industry stops bribing your government to make everything a suburban wasteland where owning a car is mandatory to live a normal life.
Oh, and moderate weather? The only moderate thing about our weather is the temperature. We regularly have winds strong enough to blow branches from trees and rain that is heavy enough to make it look like you stood under a shower with your clothes on.
@@rendomstranger8698 Now combine that wind and rain with -40 temperatures In winter and see how many people want to bike to work. I spent 12 hours plowing snow yesterday. Even when we are being extremely careful, it still does damage to the road surface. I hit the lip of a manhole yesterday it only sticks up about half an inch but if you catch it just right…the whole front of your truck stops dead until the spring lip on the plow pops loose. Thermal cycling causes material fatigue… Everything breaks down over time and that’s why most of these road designs are simply infeasible in the American Midwest
@@Matt-yg8ub You mean conditions that happen in only a fraction of North America for less than 1% of the year on average? The heat in the South of the US is a better argument than that. Oh, and guess what. We here in the Netherlands still cycle in comparable weather conditions.
The UK has had a solution for marking roads where there's no street lights for decades, they're called cat's eyes and they do the job fantastically since they use no power and are self cleaning.
But unfortunately the UK isn't great at road maintenance. Many roads that used to have cat's eyes are now blind
@@frankhooper7871 Same applies to the glow in the dark roads though. My understanding is that its basically just glow in the dark paint.
An advantage to glow in the dark lines is that they can shine through light snow and heavy rains that could reduce the visibility of the retroreflective paint currently standard.
Bellingham, Washington has had synchronized traffic lights for several decades. LA may be the first LARGE city to use it, but it's certainly not the first ever.
i think the idea was to have the whole city interconnected. we had interconnected traffic lights here too for as long as i can remember.
They have interconnected traffic lights throughout the US nothing special
True for very light snow....but much like today LED traffic lights when covered in a snow storm, there is no heat from the incandesant bulbs to keep the snow melted off the lens of the lamp. Those lights become impossible to see.
I like the idea a lot, not that it would work where I live, but I like it for most normal climate places. I live in Canada, and a good three months are -40 or worse, with snow and ice stacked on top of each other, and then still pretty covered for another 2-3 months. As it is, for the six months of "clear" weather that we have, we have to repave our entire city over again.
When I used to live in the Southwest United States, it would have been incredibly useful. The weather was virtually always clear, and so they would have been of use virtually every night of the year. Probably could save a lot of lives out there.
So in the winter there may be dark about 15:00, it glows 8h (probably full glow is 3-5h and then it slowly stops)... so after 23:00 we have 7-8h without light, great...
I remember watching a program on PBS about 15 years ago about scientists who incorporated rubber from used car tires into tar that allowed roads to last 20 years longer because they could flex with weather changes. They had already road tested for several years. Never heard anything about it again.
I always suspected to concrete or tar industry of buying out that pattent and destroying it.
lots of great ideas lost because the inventor wasn't a good businessman
It was actually the very industry that the ide would benefit the most from the tech that bought it up and buried it. It wasn't concrete or tar, it was the transportation and construction companies.
Even if a patent ends up in what should be the right hands, that doesn't mean it'll actually be put to use. Innovations that would improve the quality of a product and draw more initial sales are often avoided because they reduce repeat sales by increasing how long the product can go without servicing.
@@GremlinSciences And that's why *capitalism* is completely flawed.
@@BowlofColdSoup Capitalism has nothing to do with it, it's purely because the government bodies negotiating the work try to save every penny they can by contracting out the work to the lowest bidder instead of paying a fair price or establishing and renewing long-term contracts. A roadworks company (or any construction company involved with roadways and paving) might not have any major work in a given year and so might need the pay from resurfacing state roads to pay their workers, if they do a quality job that lasts a very long time then it might not only cost them more money to do but it may also kick the state's next resurfacing project too far into the future for the company to survive.
Capitalism means you get paid for your work, and it works well enough down at the commercial level. What alternative would you prefer, socialism like the Nazis which caused WWII and then directly led to their loss, or communism like in China where the government controls everything with an iron fist and will seal people inside their homes without a second thought or permanently silence any who show discontent?
What you Marxists don't seem to understand is that socialism is just a monopoly where government inc. owns everything. If you actually go look where "Capitalism" starts going wrong. It's when governments over regulate, meddle in free competition and start getting tangled in communist style coercion and corruption. I am from a communist country the roads are undrivable and you literally get death threats from government contractors if you try to fill them yourself.
Synchronized traffic lights hav been there for some time & one of the main benefits is u hit the green on every light IF u maintain the speed limit , yes if the speed limit is 35 & u drive the speed limit u will see green all the way through , well thats the idea .
I love how we are getting to the point where we are just making everything more advanced. Like you think “how could a road get more advanced, it’s a flat asphalt track” but here we are.
Well it's like the simple premise of a watch... now look.. smart watches
That started after the simply phone went smart.. people prophesised home telephones having the video link but look at where we are once we found a hidden frequency
Same for microwaves
A convection microwave, with the right method could could a chicken
These are amazing futuristic road designs
Airlines across the world have found that more audible/visual warnings in the cockpit don't necessarily lead to an increase in safety - the audio-visual "clutter" actually distracts the pilot/driver from what needs to be done RIGHT NOW. I already find the proximity warning beeper in my car a distraction at critical moments and shudder to think what more intrusive alarms beyond my control will do to my ability to process what is going on.
It's like when a driver is trying to determine whether it is safe to pull onto traffic and the person behind them starts honking: yeah, interrupt their thought process, that'll help!
Reminds of when Ced The Entertainer was talking about the only time Black people turn down their music while driving (a spaceship in this scenario) is to parallel park.😏😏😏
But yes... most people need quiet to make critical decisions in urgent situations.
14:07 ... Woooow !!!! This concept of Self-Repairing Roads is just ultimately behind wonderful idea ❤
I love it so much
In Cape Town SA, they have reflectors that mark the pavement end to end and lane separation. It's pretty
Perfect 👌 a beautiful view before being carjacked and losing your life over a mercedes
Great video. There is a parking lot in my home town that uses the motion controlled lights. The great thing about it is that it is a security light. If someone is in the lot late at night, it lights up, as well as saving money
A lot of road paint already has lenticular additives. Glow in the dark added to the lenticular and white could make it glow even more.
it's too expensive....it'll never happen.
My préférée method is a mix between hyper loops and gliding airplanes, small, don’t crash by nature, light enough for paraschutes, and can be propelled magnetically from the ground. Plus the wings could come off as it moves through the city
They tried the florescent road paint decades ago. Lasted a few months before it was causing "some" people to have issues and it was quickly painted back over. Was the best there was for seeing the road especially in the really dark nights.
There go those epileptics ruing it for everybody else again...
Did a brief bit of research and it apparently also had problems with absorbing moisture which would cause it to stop working.
I KNEW you were going to mention the netherlands. Most cool driving tech / infrastructure as far as i know.
The glowing road striping is an improvement over headlights by themselves, but nothing beats overhead lighting for maximum safety.
Tru but in rule areas like forests that gets little traffic wouldn't make sense to have overhead lights.
Also overhead lights stress out plant life because they dont get tru night so it slowly kills them.
@@thesilentone4024 Although I've never witnessed or even heard of plants dying from being illuminated at night, it is an interesting theory.
Glowing Road strips are nothing more than your kids glow in the dark stars on a larger scale, they last for a couple hours MAYBE after you turn the lights out…. And would be a logistical nightmare to maintain and a legal liability because every time the paint failed and somebody crashed, the city will be getting sued for millions of dollars
The plastic road idea is great. Cities could run not just new pipes or lines under the road pretty easily, but also they could feed hot water pipes under the roads and cycle them through water heaters to melt snow in the winter.
I don't agree,because as the road is being used,from the wheels friction will result a constant waist of microplastic,wich will end up in the soil, water and in the air....would you like to breath microplastic dust?
@n04n1m0u5 Already breathing, eating, drinking it now. Little bit late for that argument my friend.
@@LordBLB ....but making roads of plastic,the contamination with microplastic would increase by at least exponential 10....
Clearly you haven’t consulted an engineer before making this comment :-)
@@Matt-yg8ub Just making conversation, no argument. But, Engineer? Stop thinking plastic toys, and start thinking high impact polycarbonates or ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWP). Those can be constructed out of some recycled plastics with a little chemistry.
Regarding more EV use in Europe vs North America.
My Scottish colleague had told me this tale.
His mom came to visit him in Canada. After he drove her a couple hundred kilometers sightseeing, she asked him if they had traveled to a different country.
Yeah Europeans tend to forget just how small their "continent" is.
@@jerrik-415 Same reason they don't understand why the US doesn't have the same mass transit options. We have open areas with next to nothing there bigger than some of their countries.
@@Redslayer86 As European I do understand this. But Americans should also be aware how their cities were designed and influenced by the automakers who advocated for suburbia as it increased the sale of cars and negated investment in mass transport. The entire east coast should be interlinked with high speed trains and mass transport systems - but it isn't...
@@craigstephens93 Not only that, but early US auto-makers actively bought up a lot of inner-city public transport (mainly tram systems) explicitly to shut them down to increase demand for cars even within cities.
@@craigstephens93 This is something I was trying to explain to someone and they told me that trains were history, airways are the future. Well, that's all well and fine but I would have to travel 3 to 4 hours by car to get to a major airport today. One hundred years ago I could have walked less than 5 minutes from my house and boarded a train and gone virtually anywhere I wanted to. I could have lived quite well without ever having to own a vehicle. Today I can't even travel the 10 miles (16 km) to the nearest shops without my own vehicle. Over they years they've eliminated the freight lines and I don't even think passenger service has been available here for 60 or 70 years. I've known people who travel to Florida for the winter and they had to drive several states to the south before they could load their car onto a passenger train and travel the rest of the way by rail. Rather than expand and improve our rail system it's been gradually eliminated. And granted, much of the industry that was keeping it going has also been eliminated in favor of sending it to foreign countries because it was more profitable for a few in the short-run but when you account for all that we've lost in the process it's been detrimental to the country in the long-run.
Waww so nice I am very excited to see this very very informative video thanks for sharing dear friend God gives you more and more success
I am enjoying reading about all the geniuses at work coming up with brilliant ideas!
@3:41 LOL!!! Loved the Barbie Girl reference.
i lost count on how many times they say "design that will change the world", yet nothing changed
I've been a long haul truck driver for 4 years. I've been saying ALL THE TIME that they should make glow in the dark lanes and markings!!
I want royalties 😀
Glow would be cool, would be interesting to see the statistics on glow vs reflector markers
Reflector is better. If the glow in the dark is covered during the day it won't glow at night. If the reflector is covered during the day it will still reflect at night.
Improved traffic light control and synchronization would likely promote better fuel economy due to the improved traffic flow.
my city has had that for 35 years.
That’s an excessive capital improvement cost…. Meaning that saving the average taxpayer 30 bucks a year in gas, doesn’t justify spending $20 million they don’t have in order to put in that system.
I really don’t like the idea of those speed bumps on highways when they are empty
Even with the application of AI to LA’s synchronized traffic system they will still see unsustainable growth in traffic congestion until they change their focus towards public transport and walkable neighborhood based solutions, this much is mathematically certain. For more information I suggest reading strong towns.
No, the main problem is drive-through traffic that needs to be blocked off into its own lane for longer, similar to express/public train systems present in NYC. The traffic is almost always caused by crashes. The traffic would be greatly improved if there was a true express lane from one side of the city to the other. Splits traffic into 2 lanes/3 out of 5 lanes present. Traffic is also caused by cargo trucks going to and from Mexico.
The last problem is how the synchronized lights on surface streets do not empty cars off the highways fast enough during peak times. Every time I've visited LA, there's always at least one exit that is completely jammed for at least half a mile.
Just EXCELLENT info...Thanks
jigsaw roads are in zwolle (the netherlands) they are only a bit anoying to drive on with the sound
You don't need to dig for a hyperloop if you've train infrastructure already. Only in the US you barely have train infrastructure. Countries in Europe could just replace trainrails with hyperloops.
Conversely musk could replace his failed hyperloop with a regular train
I like the concept of the Hyperloop. 👍
Its funny when he mentioned the synchronized traffic lights i was telling at my screen "WE HAVE THOSE!" The system in Los Angeles is actually very well built. I personally believe our traffic problems stem from a cultural problem instead of a efficiency problem. What i like about our traffic lights is how intuitive, predictable, and safe they are.
Most traffic problems stem from the fact that most people don't know how to drive. They just know how to operate a motorized vehicle.
I've been driving for 40 years and every traffic light I have encountered is synchronized to turn red just before I arrive.
Traffic signal synch also relies on drivers to drive at - or slightly UNDER - the posted speed limit! I live near the 'Post Road' in CT, where posted speed limits are typically 30 or 35mph. HA - if drivers are doing 40, in the right lane, they're honked at. They floor the gas away from one green light only to have to slam the brakes at the red one several blocks away.
@@alexubel Interesting, can you cite a source where I could learn more?
It’s not a cultural problem it’s mostly the road layout system…
Our roads in Florida have a beautiful glow. From the radiation!
Will the roads glow during night!!!?
When the authorities don't bother with potholes, you gotta question whether any of these ideas will actually become mainstream. Btw, geogrids have been around for years.
So has no one heard of solar freaking roadways. Like the greatest video ever made
Not solar thin-film plastic roadways, they'd be destroyed in an hour or less of traffic. Unless the plastic were under some kind of mineral top. Glass that wears well, I just don't know...
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The best way to reduce traffic is to have less cars. Make cities more walkable and have more accessible mass transit.
Many dutch solutions apparently, great innovative engineering!
this is very excellent idea well done:)
My personal view on hyper loop would be that it's overly complicated and insanely dangerous to the point where a small error could kill everyone, it doesn't even have to crash, a leak caused by a malfunction or even someones purposeful actions would send air into the tube and if the pod collides with that it would be like hitting a wall going 700mph. It would be impossible to protect al the track so it would have to be underground at least. Then we also have natural disasters like earthquakes witch would also have the same effects. It being used to travel over oceans is also very unlikely as material stress and corrosion would cause similar problems to those mentioned above, this time with water instead of air witch is even worse. So in conclusion let's just go with normal trains or maglev for land travel and planes or ships for going across the ocean.
I fully agree with you, also, travel is and should be an enjoy experience, view the landscape and scenery, not in the closed [tube], nobody like that.
@@hanfucolorful9656 Yeah true, you should be able to just sit back and enjoy. It's one of the reasons why I really don't like cars, imo they are dangerous and create too much noise and pollution, also when you drive you need to constantly focus and it's mentally tiring.
@@panzervpl9406 That's why size of the windows of Chinese high speed train is 200% bigger than that of Japan. Pay attention to this next time you see a train video.
@@hanfucolorful9656 Ok? But seriously speaking, I'd prefer a fast, window-less vehicle than a slow, windowed vehicle. I care about the destination ,or else I would be moving in the first place.
And all of the hyperloop tests have been unsuccessful, they can’t seem to either pump out or maintain the vacuum even less dense atmosphere for as long as short tests, much less expanses that would allow for acceleration and deceleration time. The energy cost is so much higher, with so little chance of success, this would be some billionaire’s plaything, rather than a possible means of transit for any group of people.
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
The reflector lights are really beautiful
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🤙🏾
Great share!
Traffic lights that adjust the length of green according to volume. I've seen this system from about twenty years ago. It didn't catch on, but should.
Another excellent, and in production idea are vehicles that drive roads to map pothole locations.
the ones i hate are the ones on a timer those make no sense at all since they will just change even when no one is even coming
@@Themrine2013 Not every city has all the money in the world :-) timed lights have been around for 60 years because that’s how most municipalities deal with there being multiple different government agencies involved in the timing of an individual intersection.
Take for example a state highway that serves as the boundary between two cities, that’s four different jurisdictions between the cities the county and the state for who gets to decide on the timing of those lights, one side of the street is a hospital in one city the other side of the shopping center in a different city and it’s a state highway running down the middle. Who gets priority? Who gets turn signals? It’s a giant dance that’s why everything has to be timed properly. It sounds good to put in a massive $40 million traffic control system full of sensors and components to take tremendous amount of maintenance in order to make a smart system adapt to traffic flows, or intersections can use a $300 timing system that allows them to flow during typical heavy traffic times.
then why not build a roundabout. It adjusts to traffic and requires no power
@Trucker2019 I know one light that is green for precicely one second. It's a turn and the light to go straight stay on longer but God damnit I need the right of way longer than literally the time it takes me to notice the light has changed.
@Matt what kind of braindead moron put different agencies in charge of the same thing?!? Bureaucracy at its fucking finest.
I've made this post every time I see flying cars mentioned, if you are driving your car and the engine fails you pull over to the side and call someone to fix it or fix it yourself no problem!
If you are in your flying car and the engine fails you crash and burn, end of ALL your problems!!!
Oh be a sport, consider a reasonable set of chutes and ultracapacitors. And 40 kph winds. There's no reason they can't share their fate far and wide or have their autopilot gently bounce them off the backside of a hill to a less knocky stop.
@@davenordquist4663 well if they were flying over the local nuclear power plant taking a short cut to get back in time for the big game that would probably spread them far and wide I suppose
@@davedixon2068 I think that only applies in Nuclear, AZ otherwise it is merely an intrinsically safe reactor. Thanks for being the wind beneath our emergency glidepath wings.
The glowing road lines would be awesome to see on those backwoods roads.
The lines in the road are already reflective, if you drive down it with your headlights on you’re gonna see reflective lines. Trying to make photoluminescent roads it’s just a huge maintenance problem
You should try driving in Melbourne Australia, there is nothing but speed camera's with no signs to alert they are even there. The gps alerts to the speed camera's dont alert you to the camera's until after you have passed it. Are they making the roads safer or just pissing everyone off?
Lets give you cars and trucks capable of going well over 100, but ask you to never go over 65. Super smart.
If they want people to drive slower, they should make the roads less wide and straight! Like there are a lot of places in the US where the speed limit lowers (or rises) on a certain stretch of road and yet other then the sign with different numbers, nothing else changes!
It only took 30 yrs to employ Glow in the Dark lines! Finally !! oh, 30 yrs because I thought of it 30 yrs ago and have been waiting for someone to try it. I think something GitD that is embedded into the asphalt would hold up a lot better than paint, though. That plastic Jigsaw road is really cool. That would be great to replace cement sidewalks in freezing states, like where I live. It may displace when frozen, just like cement, but it wouldn't break up and need to be replaced, just resettle back into place when the ice beneath it melts!
Virtually all old or very old ideas. Road engineers have been developing these for ages. The only change is cost effectiveness.
can't wait to see these concepts being used
Thank you
I like all these put them where needed
Not going to lie, glowing lines sound awesome. Not sure about their life expectancy or how long the glow will last at night.
About that synchronised trafic signals. Have you looked into how the Netherlands conduct their traffic systems. this has been going on for over 20 years already and moving into the future with smart connected traffic management systems where road users of any type get and supply information from and to the system making it even more comprehansive as you go. Look into the 5 traffic management centres monitoring and managing all highway systems throught the land and into things like Flowtack managing and digitising the intirety of cities already.
Not even an honorable mention for Solar Roadways? They've been around a lot longer than most of these technologies and solve almost every problem your individual choices do. Come on, son.
Solar roads are useless , and phase out
solar freaking Roadways? lol
Excellent funny video: "Solar Freakin Roadways". Just makes sense!
ruclips.net/video/qlTA3rnpgzU/видео.html
I'm pretty sure the title of the video is 'Future roadways' not pre existing roadways
They are a scam
The capital city of Edmonton in Alberta also uses synchronised traffic lights, even the bicycle traffic lights are also has the synchronised traffic lights too when cycling over the magnetic on the road
The syncing traffic lights Is GREAT for personal vehicles, but for us in semi trucks, or other vehicles that take a little bit to pick up speed it actually has the opposite effect, causing us to hit EVERY light as a red one as soon as we get stuck at one of them
That’s actually the effect for most vehicles…. Which is why the system isn’t used more frequently.
I prefer the traffic controlled method of traffic light control widely used today instead of centrally controlled lights of any kind. A copper wire loop at intersections link to a nearby control box is all it takes. Well along with educational material going out to all drivers to raise awareness.
4:20 the jigsaw roads seem promising. One thing that didn't mention is cost savings when adding new wires or fiber
Question about the second design: wouldn't the webbing (and the open space it leaves) make the road prone to freezing faster? It seems like a design for potholes waiting to happen too.
it does not leave spaces. webs are filled with little stones most of the time, or sand or earth.
note that the web always goes on top of geo textile.
each element brings a feature / function, to improve the place. not just for roads. also useful for banks ... and when I say banks, I mean ... the 8m high mountains you may find around a bridge to support the higher road.
practical engineering channel made several videos about geo textile and how it re enforces soft materials ( like metal bars in concrete )
@@Benoit-Pierre oh ok, that's cool--i must've missed that in the explanation someplace... thanks for the tip! :)
@@ingridfong-daley5899 its not said verbally, just shown visually
@@ingridfong-daley5899 for the base :
ruclips.net/video/0olpSN6_TCc/видео.html
Its about geo textile, but the web has a similar purpose. But they are complementary, and used together under roads.
6:50 even if you slow WAY down, regular sleep bumps are very painful for people with back pain or injuries. If smooth enough and not overused, this could be helpful
Thank you video interesting compliment.
ancient designs renewed i love it.
Very Interesting 💚
Great, a flying car from Slovakia was also included in the video.
Omg 😂😂😂 it’s been a while since I was back in San Diego. At 5:46…. I got really excited when a saw that…."hey that looks like San Diego"…. went on Google maps and confirmed….to only see that that it says San Diego in the bottom left corner.
what background music you are using in this video?
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Neat picture, happen to be a lady with very long hair? I find that very attractive, please describe it?
Dang! Exactly how big are you? LoL! Just joking. Merry Christmas!
17:07 Induction priority lanes
Wouldn’t induction parking spaces be a good idea, too? Lots of people park on the street and don’t have access to in-garage, overnight parking stations. (And couldn’t any of these induction surface ideas be powered by renewables, e.g., wind or solar)?
Yeah and you just turned $300 worth of asphalt into $10,000 worth of electrical equipment buried under $3000 worth of specialty asphalt. Now 4 different utility companies, the water department, the stormwater authority, Streets maintenance and the gas company….. All have to raise their rates because every time they have to cut into a road to repair something that costs them 10 times as much to repair the damage.
Induction parking spaces are a great idea. Wouldn't be fast though, at least not with current technology. And yes they, just like anything on the grid could be powered with renewable energy, we have to get there first. Just ask Texas what happens when you ditch fossil fuels before the renewable tech is ready...
@@Matt-yg8ub Tell us you support destroying the Earth without telling us you support destroying the Earth.
@@mimcduffee86 On the contrary….. I just design civil infrastructure and get quite the chuckle out of these idiotic, unworkable ideas.
@@JonRuisiCustomDev Induction charging is wasteful and highly inefficient
A few points to consider:
1) The hyperloop is bunk. It'll never work as advertised.
2) The self-repairing road would be HUGE!
3) Replacing some roads with plastic versions of the same thing seems to make sense. I can see highways being replaced after some tech improvements and why not use waste plastic?
4) The temp-sensitive paint exists now in, of all things, coffee mugs that have funny sayings on them visible only when filled with hot or cold drinks. Using them on potentially icy roads seems like a no-brainer.
5) Induction charging lanes would change the ev vehicle market completely. The biggest drawback with them is range and the charging lane would eliminate that. If they used solar power to make the thing work then it becomes zero emissions as well.
Personal planes will come eventually, but that's why they are pushing ai driving cars as if people have flying cars we can't have people drive them need ai to do that this way everyone won't need a flying license. And won't get traffic air jams as the cars can communicate with each other.
Elon Musk said he is working on something he says will be delivered in a couple of years? Which means someone else will deliver it and Musk will catch up in a couple of decades. He said "fully self-driving" would be available in Teslas...something like 5 years ago? It still hasn't happened and is nowhere in sight.
Solution for dealing with people running red lights: When the signal light turns red, spikes come up out of the road ahead of the crosswalk. Run the red light, blow the tires. (First responder vehicles would have a remote that would retract the spikes when they need to run the red light during an emergency.)
While it is rare for traffic lights to fail, it still happens, adding sharp tire popping spikes to that mix would make it even more of a mess!
Roads are amazing, without roads cars cant drives, near of my home new roads and bridges has been completed and they are great new roads/bridges. Country roads take me home. Ps Futuristic roads sounds nice, Hyper bloops and The Sky IS Road in future. 🔥🔥
Trains.
@@mike-mechanics Santa has had flying "carriages" for quite a long time.
Have glowing outdoor countertops and lighted concrete pathways in yard using same material. Guess that weather sensitive paint will hard to see under snow and ice.
A bit hesitant about plastic roads, simply cause plastic melts really fast when it gets just a tad hot.
Personally I wouldn't recommend it, especially in hot places since it would melt and become a fire and breathing hazard.
Just a bit? I haven't seen anything made of plastic, for use in construction and around the house, that has the durability and toughness remotely close to traditional materials. Low stress applications where its set and pretty much forget, such as siding and some plumbing, is all its good for. These roads would be as hard to dispose of (or recycle) as turbine blades are now. Pop Sci greenies that typically ignore so many other factors would love them though. They love stuff that is superficially Earth friendly, while ignoring issues such as the non-green manufacturing, short lifetimes, ease of maintenance, ease of repairs, and ultimately, disposal
And asphalt is 98% reusable, unlike plastic. Has better grip for tires than plastic, even when wet, and doesn’t leach/outgas/put micro plastics into our eco-system.
You want to do something useful with plastics, find a way for them to be turned back into the oil they came from.
Radium makes good glowing effects. 🥵
leave it to the netherlands to push the envelope on effective transit!
I'm not sure if Synchronized Traffic Signals are the way it will go, as you discribe it in this video...
In the netherlands, Many trafficlights are "smart" traffic lights. With sensors in and around the road, an intersection will know how many cars and/or bikes are waiting and also knowing what the flow is of that intersection. It will determine which lights to prioritize and even switch it up, so others lanes can go at the same time. Near Highway exits, there are intersections that will communicate to the next one, to let the other one know how much traffic is coming that way, in which an intersection can decide to let others "quickly" go first before a large sum of cars are coming, which also means, the bigger line of cars do NOT get that priority they would normally get because in about 15 seconds they will be joined by more and then make that light be on green longer... difficult to explain,.. but think 'not just bikes' has some great videos on that...
Those darn dutchies are ahead in so many things sometimes. ;D
Problem with electric vehicles is that where i live the main source of electricity is still biofuels (tree chips) or coal. Sometimes we get a wind speed that helps the grid, but not often. People think by driving electric vehicles here are better for the environment. Until we get away from the first two sources of electric energy is not so.
I am a proponent of hydrogen cars instead. Once there are more tank stations and more competition these cars will be better for the environment. They have been put through the wringer in testing and safety, more so than electric cars, because of hydrogen power. They also refill faster, and their waste? Well its water H20.
i know right which better yet need hybirds akak hybrid solar,wind,battery, biofuel, hydrogen cell thus drivers can recharge their cars themslves = drive them themselves 7 not have to relay on co2 big powr companies or corrupt autonomous controller overlords + be mindful of the environment
How about more roundabouts (in the US) where there are so few compared to other countries. Helps to facilitate traffic flow compared to traffic lights, and normally decreases commute time.
I remember the infamous traffic circle in New Brunswick, N.J. where I was born 79 years ago. we used to go to the drive-in movies there. We never went through the circle when there wasn't an accident happening either before, during or immediately after we went through it. This was on the weekend, it must have been worse on the weekdays. They took it out.
Carmel, Indiana is leading the way in adopting roundabouts in the U.S. Soon will have eliminated all traffic signals on city streets.
We need more roundabouts in the US! They are so much better!
@@topfives Also less braking and accelerating which is better for fuel consumption and the environment.
We have a love/hate relationship with them here in the Netherlands cause we have so many.
@@tedmoss It is all inexperience with driving on them and probably the design is also not optimal.
Cost per mile of this type road is the key item and then maintenance cost as heated means maintenance for sure.
Number seven scares me
Really bad
Yeah it fits perfectly into a wef dystopian world.
I guess Im a time traveler because I remember these weird inventions on cars many decades ago called headlights...they magucaly lit up the road in front f you and those strange markings on the road that looked like painted lines that reflected the magic fairy dust from the headlights back to our eyes..and just like that you could actually see the road.....thank god for high tech future space age magic
😆🤣😂LOL
People need to feel special. They don't feel special if their idea is more trains even if they are slow. They only feel special if their idea is super fast trains, with magic.
I live in Australia and the motion sensor lights are now rolling out on our newly build foot pathments
Years and years ago before there was much thought about electric cars, I had an idea about running mains electric cables under the roads, and cars would have inductive coils fitted under the floors that electrified the motors which propelled them along. This idea would eliminate the need for large capacity batteries which would be used on minor roads. HoHum.
Sadly that would likely murder pedestrians. Trains wouldn't.
Wow! You reinvented the TRAIN
*The future is here.* The UK is already introducing motion sensor interactive street lighting. It will greatly reduce light pollution. Also temperature sensitive ice warning signs.
Induction lanes would make EV's worse for the environment than internal combustion cars. Inductive charging has an efficiency rating of less than 50%. Most country's produce most of their energy by burning fossil fuels. This means that this extra inefficiencies will result in more emotions in the production of the electricity than what an internal combustion car would emit.
Low profile tires that are integral to some auto designs, suffer most with flat tire from deflating on the edge of a concealed pothole. Speed humps do encourage a reduction of speed
All this intelligence abounding and still no cure for cancer.
The “synchronized lights” have been around for decades in NYC. We call it “catching the green wave”. This is nothing new! But great video. Love road construction for some reason lol.
If that last induction technique was for the betterment of humanity it would be cheap and available, as would the vehicle👍🏻 but it isn't and they're not🤷🏼♂️ great video though❤️ new sub
They need to come up with something for road lines in countries that snows alot. 1/2 time here ,you have absolutely no clue where the lane is you just have to pray somones traces are not leading you offtrail lol ... also completely erases the lines on the cement after the melt. can take months before they redo them in summer !
I like everything except the inability to opt out of a road spying on, tracking me, and storing my data forever, which happens in big gub'mnt’s servers.