[PLUG-TALK] Driving in Cities: How Ants Commute

[Larry Brigman]

Put those sensors and controls into the cars and remove the control from
what we currently
call drivers.  That would put things into a much more orderly flow.


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

>    At yesterday's clinic Keith shared his idea for the ultimate connection
> in
> the 'Internet of Things': automated grappling hooks that would extract
> vehicles from highway overpasses and plop them into available spaces on the
> highway at the speed traffic is moving. One hopes, of course, that the OS
> controlling such a system is not a version of Windows.
>
>    To further planning, ideas might be extracted from this article on how
> ants commute: <http://tinyurl.com/lqpqah9>. They apparently do not exhibit
> road rage and are not known to talk or text on cell phones. Perhaps a
> solution to commuting issues is to equip drivers (or their vehicles) with
> pheromones, sensors, and response systems.
>
> Rich
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