Audi, those whacky Germans who like to build crazy fast station wagons, have announced some pretty cool tech coming our way some time in the near future.The new tech, called Travolution, involves traffic lights but don't let that get you down as its ultimate goal is to save you some cash. As Autoblog puts it, "Travolution establishes a connection between a red light and a vehicle, so that as a specially equipped car moves toward a red light at an intersection, stop light gantries fitted with communications modules can let the car know when the light will turn green. The car then lets the driver know what speed he should maintain in order to pass through the intersection without having to brake for the light and then accelerate again. " Nice.
Unfortunately the traffic lights themselves need to be updated so it's quite a big buy-in for local governments but hopefully Audi have made Travolution an open standard so other manufacturers can get in on the action.
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