Programming Traffic on Streets

We waste humongous times on road during peaks hours in metropolitan cities. While people lose opportunities, time and money, we always would’ve thought “We should have taken that route”

“We should have taken that route!”

Right.

But why don’t you follow it when Google tells you that?

Maybe we should follow Google strictly. Maybe each one of them who travel on the streets.

Umm, seriously? Can this happen? The 'each one of them' part.

A metropolitan city traffic following an internet application to decide when to leave to reach their destination. Plus, multiple routes to navigate to choose faster-though-longer routes to reach a destination.I would bet on such a dream that it will come true.

The smartphone generation of today use data services pretty easily.

Thanks to Jio in India, to onboard the Class B audience to 4G who wouldn’t have come owing to the prices they were at. Certainly they created competition which reflected in price drops amongst all carriers and thus the majority influx.

A certain influx of users have come onto Google Maps and so many other (YouTube, yaay) services & applications.

People love to use technology.

They love until their mobile battery drains or their data pack exhausts.

But until then, they love technology if it can help them solve their boredom and problems.

Many of who I know gradually started using Google to navigate. Not that they are new to the city. They’re using Google to know the better route through that bad ass traffic.

Be it starting in the morning, noon, evening or night, people started following Google to know the optimum route.

So fancy. So 2017.

What do you think comes next?

What if people wait for Google to prompt when to leave? Wait, Google already does that.

What if people wait for Google to prompt when to start the car? Yeah!

In an age when majority commuters have smartphones with their earbuds plugged in during commute & don’t mind a navigating voice even through their daily commute, this step is not an overkill.

Let’s say a part of Bengaluru City gets started with roads being busy by 4:30PM.

Google prompting people to start 8 minutes prior to reach 25 minutes early would be out-of-the-mind.

These are realistic numbers for a traffic like in Bengaluru City.

This comes only with data.

Google has gradually worked to improve the system by depending on the user sourced data.

Yeah, I don’t give a damn about my privacy. I need more enriched services to be built. If that comes at a stake, thats okay!

Google gradually helped us to know the time it takes to reach our destination.

It later helped us know when to start.

Now, it can micro manage to suggest people when to start to reach when.

I presume Google must have already started/finished work on micro managing start times for users, us. ☺

I’m already imagining a world of honking traffic solving a little amount of its problem.