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Seeking Delphi: Podcast #28, Future Driving, Part 3: Intelligent Traffic Control

“They say the Universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright

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Autonomous vehicles? Flying cars? The concepts are exciting, but the truth is: most of us will still be driving manually on the ground for many years to come. And that means dealing with the motorist’s most persistent annoyance. Congestion. It costs time and money and tries patience. But advanced vehicles are not necessarily required to solve the problem. In the final episode of the Future Driving series on the Seeking Delphi™ podcast, we explore intelligent traffic control with Rapid Flow Technologies CEO, Griffin Schultz. Advanced sensors, edge computing and artificial intelligence are helping cities to lessen the occurrence–and the frustration–of traffic congestion.

Future Driving, Part 1, Self-Driving Cars,with Alex Wyglinski here.

Future Driving, Part 2, Flying Cars, with Kaushik Rajashekara here.

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Episode #28, Future Driving Part 3: Intelligent Traffic Control with Griffin Schultz

YouTube slide show, episode #28

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Seeking Delphi Podcast #13: The Urban Landscape of the Future

Note, this post reposted from my Seeking Delphi™ blog.

“All cities are mad, but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”–Christopher Morley

A Jetsons future?

Where will you live in 2050? What will the cities of the future look like? Tomorrowland? The Jetsons? Waterworld? Maybe they will look pretty much the same, but feel very much different. To sort out some of the possible scenarios, I sought out an expert on the urban landscape of the future. Cindy Frewen, Ph. D., is an architect and an adjunct professor in the University of Houston’s graduate foresight program. She designs near-term urban futures, and constructs scenarios for possible longer term futures.

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