Hate Waiting? AI Can Eliminate Waiting Time At Red Signals And Declutter Roads
Artificial intelligence has the power to declutter our roads, researchers say. MIT scientists demonstrated how AI can help make traffic signals less chaotic and roads more organised in the future.
The researchers devised a way to ensure that drivers and motorists don't spend time at a traffic intersection waiting for the signal to turn green. Using AI, MIT researchers want motorists to reach the signal at the exact moment it is about to turn green.
While this may not be possible with handheld cars and bikes, it is completely achievable in self-driving vehicles... the likes of Tesla and others that rely on software to navigate signals and streets.
Using AI to improve vehicle efficiency
Scientists propose that artificial intelligence may be used to adjust a vehicle's speed so that it reaches the next signal when it turns green so that vehicles can keep moving without waiting. While this will save time, it'll also discourage fuel wastage.
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The study has not been peer-reviewed yet and was published on arXiv, wherein scientists explained how machine learning may be used to control autonomous vehicles in a way that keeps streets uncluttered.?Led by Vindula Jayawardana, a graduate student at MIT, the team claims that their AI-driven approach could reduce fuel consumption and emissions while improving average vehicle speeds.
How did they train the AI?
The more data any machine learning algorithm is fed, the better it gets at its job.?There was a complication, though.?
Marrying fuel savings with smaller trip times seemed incompatible to researchers. They later devised a new method called reward shaping and fed information to the system domain that it wouldn't have been able to learn on its own.??
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To avoid certain behaviour, the AI algorithm was penalised each time it failed to balance both concerns.?With this, vehicles could reduce fuel consumption by 18%, CO2 emissions by 25%, all while improving travel speed by 20%.?
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References
On the road to cleaner, greener, and faster driving. (2022, May 17). MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.?
Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk. (2022, May 30). AI Can Make Traffic Signals Less Chaotic, Roads More Organised for Motorists in Future, Say MIT Researche. . . NDTV Gadgets 360.?
