Did Google just fix rush hour traffic? Yeah, apparently they did! Instead of whizzing past you while you’re stuck at a red light, Google’s Project Greenlight cleverly syncs up traffic signals to create glorious “green waves,” letting you breeze through one green light after another. How? By using data from connected vehicles and navigation apps, no new, fancy hardware required. The secret lies in dynamically adjusting traffic-light timing based on real-time traffic patterns, not those ancient, fixed-time schedules.
This system is already proving its worth in places like Seattle and Hamburg, where stop-and-go traffic plummeted by 30%. All of this thanks to Google’s AI fine-tuning traffic light timings to create those sweet “green waves.” And let’s be real: anything that slashes our time spent idling at red lights sounds like a win.
