It's relevant to software, sorta. I've got rather a lot of GIS/mobility-related data available here. It's just a rails app that renders a bunch of my strava activity data all at once: https://josh.works/mobility-data
The fixes are entirely accomplishable with nothing more high-tech than traffic cones. They can be upgraded to more permanent and pretty physical objects, but the key bit of the traffic bean finds traffic cones fully sufficient. No half-million USD traffic signals, no red/green/yellow light cycles. continuous flow. safety. peace.
Some stuff that's obvious in some domains, like "at high-throughput times, don't allow key bits of infrastructure be completely unusable".
Bringing this to american municipalities is like trying to speak a language with someone that doesn't speak your language, but demands that you treat them as if they do.
it's been a big, long-running project. Most tradition in the USA is really a fig leaf for supremacy, and people can smell that I'm coming for their supremacy a mile away, and they immediately begin deploying emotional defenses.
I'm literally trying to fix broken junctions around me.
It's at the same time laughably easy, and wildly complicated.
I'm calling the alternative, correct junction a 'traffic bean':
https://josh.works/traffic-bean
It's relevant to software, sorta. I've got rather a lot of GIS/mobility-related data available here. It's just a rails app that renders a bunch of my strava activity data all at once: https://josh.works/mobility-data
The fixes are entirely accomplishable with nothing more high-tech than traffic cones. They can be upgraded to more permanent and pretty physical objects, but the key bit of the traffic bean finds traffic cones fully sufficient. No half-million USD traffic signals, no red/green/yellow light cycles. continuous flow. safety. peace.
Some stuff that's obvious in some domains, like "at high-throughput times, don't allow key bits of infrastructure be completely unusable".
Bringing this to american municipalities is like trying to speak a language with someone that doesn't speak your language, but demands that you treat them as if they do.
it's been a big, long-running project. Most tradition in the USA is really a fig leaf for supremacy, and people can smell that I'm coming for their supremacy a mile away, and they immediately begin deploying emotional defenses.
Or so it seems.