Post by @onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works

@onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works

2026-08-31 15:31 UTC

Some US cities begin rewarding careful drivers with fewer red lights by giving early greens to those driving under or at the speed limit Combining both the concepts of the “rest in red” along with speed tracking sensors, those going at or under the posted speed limits can be rewarded with early green lights at the intersections.

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@DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2026-09-01 03:42

So they do sync it up to make me hit every single red light if I’m running late for work in the morning and speeding! /s I bet it would be hard being a paranoid schizophrenic right now in this surveillance state that’s being manufactured. Or maybe its liberating since it would all be true “See, I told you the television was listening to our conversations! Here’s an article about it in The NYT” Wait until these kind of metrics of “rewardable” and “punishable” drivers shows up on your car insurance rates. There’s always a dollar to be made with all this data they are harvesting and this is just a small beginning of a series of steps that are playing out far faster than I had ever dreamed they would.

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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-09-01 18:50

isn’t this already done by timing the lights based on distance and speed limit?

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@tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 2026-08-31 19:53

Aint the surveillance state s’wonderful?

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