A smart traffic control device implements a method for detecting faulty sensors that result in false green requests and/or undetected true green requests. The faulty sensors may include inductive loops and pedestrian pushbuttons. The traffic control device may communicate with remote resources, including computer systems connected to human resources, to help identify the faulty sensors. The human resources may be crowdsourced. The traffic control device's communications with the remote resources may go through vehicle computers and smart phones of vehicles' occupants and pedestrians. The traffic control device may emit signals to enable vehicle computers to improve accuracy of position location. The traffic control device may emit its state (e.g., Green/Yellow/Red in various directions) and time to state changes, in real or substantially real time. A vehicle computer may receive the state and/or time to state changes and vary operation of the vehicle's power train in response thereto.
SMART TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND BEACONS, METHODS OF THEIR OPERATION, AND USE BY VEHICLES OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE DEVICES AND BEACONS
13.06.2019
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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