Sentence examples for intersections from inspiring English sources

Once computers are in full control of our cars, do we even need traffic lights at intersections? That's the idea behind AIM – autonomous intersection management – at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.

How much faster will careening through intersections be compared to carefully stopping?

Several people lay down at intersections, blocking traffic, as they marched the seven miles to police headquarters.

The researchers compared AIM to heavy traffic on a major road, saying it would reduce delay by as much as 100 times – though that's only at intersections, not total driving time.

Students at the historically black college of Morgan State University in Baltimore blocked several intersections near campus and formed a large square, and chanted "No justice, no peace," the Baltimore Sun reported.

Affecting whole intersection or networked intersections would be a much more major threat, but the designers are aware of this and try to take steps to avoid such problems".

"Once the driving is not a human task and people grow to trust the software controllers, people will also get used to the idea of cars going through the intersections".

But even with a complicated system such as AIM, intersections will still be safer than they are today, Prof Stone says, pointing out that a third of all fatal accidents happen at intersections.

"I don't think the main reason is going to be racing people through intersections, it's going to be safety applications," said Cohn. "Though it'll also have a secondary effect of optimising for time, it'll be really safety focused".

"Intersections are already quite dangerous.

And of course Germans danced in the streets last night, waving flags, honking horns, shooting off fireworks in the middle of busy intersections.