Saturday 31 December 2016

Zero Traffic Accidents with EZ Pass Rewards?

Shame.
In the age of high technology, it is truly shameful why traffic accidents cannot be brought down to zero.
If one were to be an alien being just arriving earth from outer space (like those in Star Trek), one would be shocked to learn of the number of traffic accidents each year upon learning that earth is NOT a primitive race void of meaningful technology, nor run by cave men.

 What if there is a simple system (with infrastructure already existing) to bring traffic accidents down to zero?
And it does not even involve any expensive technology or driverless driving (which will have a tough time being successful -as AI technology to predict human behaviors will remain difficult to achieve zero error standard- unless lanes are segregated strictly for driverless cars from other cars).

Rewarding responsible driver behaviors through Significant rewards such as EZ Pass credits may just be the easiest, quickest way.
The goal obviously is to make everyone regulate themselves at ALL TIMES so that accidents will become zero.
Sound more like a pipe dream- since not everyone irresponsible will be lured by rewards?

Lets analyze.

Most of the accidents happened due to one of the 3 key Behaviors:   
speeding, unexpected changes, unexpected Acceleration.
Even if the accidents were under the influence of  drugs, alcohol, sleep depravity, maniac behaviors/temperament (character flaw), they all fall under either one of these 3 categories.

1. Speeding - this one everyone knows, one should never speed at any times.  But one cant prevent others from speeding.
This one is easy to catch and solve -with very heavy enough punishment to make sure offenders never do it again or banish them from the roads eternally.  It is still often to see racers racing each other on the BQE in nyc after midnight, simply for fun, totally ignoring others safety- these drivers must be eradicated by all means.

2.Unexpected Changes - which cause Surprises- this is probably the most common cause of accidents (speeding or non-speeding) among all drivers as one changes mind last second, causing surprises hence accidents. A most common scenario is day dreaming or in deep thoughts and then wake up suddenly and do these last second changes, and in a stubborn manner. The proper measure is to have the strongest discipline in NEVER making these last second changes- if u missed a turn, or exit, so be it.  One must overcome these dangerous stubborn behaviors which endanger  oneself and others. Examples are last second lane change, exits or turns - one should always give ample warning time ahead of time.The well behaved population  cannot control these drivers from doing these unexpected changes except being ultra alert ourselves so to adjust to their actions.

A few measures DOT can undertake to minimize this common issue of Unexpected Changes happens to be on the highway.

The most accident prone part of the highway should be the the entry and exit areas.
If one would design the  highway infrastructure from scratch, the proper and safest way is to design a longer, designated lane for entry- that way all entries are visible and smoothed into the main traffic, with no surprises. A lot of entries currently have a short lane before entering into the main traffic flow, which could cause a lot of surprises.
Also there should be be Signs warning the drivers about incoming entries- telling them to look out for new entrants-at every entry point, so to eliminate surprises.


Highway exits also pose significant risks as drivers change minds in last second to exit.
Right lanes should be reserved only for exits or strictly for exits a quarter mile before the actual exit.There should be a cutoff point (maybe using plastic blockades to structure the cutoff point) for switching lanes. Heavy fines should be imposed on violations- this will eliminate those stubborn  last second drivers.
This issue is so critical in another common instance- such as drivers crowding to exit in last seconds, causing highway traffic to stall and jam. This jam problem is especially acute when the highway is not built straight but curvy- causing traffic to slow tremendously at these exits. The Ideal Solution to this jam problem is  if we could somehow magically make the exiting drivers change to the exit lane at different times, one after the other,  at fixed uniform intervals along the the distance of the 2 exits- this scientific method, though not feasible, will eliminate the "jam at exit" problem.  However, a feasible solution that could be implemented now will be alerting the exiting drivers to make the switch to the exiting lane as EARLY as possible- to encourage this behavior till it becomes Habit. However, most drivers have a habit of daydreaming until they must exit before switching to the  exit lane in the last seconds.  If somehow there is a EZ  Reward system  with Significant rewards to eliminate bad habits and  encourage those preemptive habits........hmmm.


One other way to prevent accidents based on Unexpected Changes is to have straighter roads and fewer lanes, even on wide highways.
Most of our highway infrastructure was built zeon years ago and to rebuild it will be costly.
Curvier roads have more accidents due to heavier blind spot problem during cars switching lanes,  and also more jams as cars have to slow down, especially on entries and exits. Multiple lanes create jams as it  promotes constant unnecessary switching of lanes. Eliminating unnecessary lanes into just 2 lanes minimize both jams and accidents. This also minimizes the problem of speeding, as it is the lane changes that cause the accidents.

Most accidents are caused by Unexpected Change, and switching of Lanes is prime suspect.
If one would eliminate or minimize switching of lanes (UNLESS one really have to) we will have so much less accidents each year.

We have nyc DOT experimenting with straighter roads and eliminating unnecessary lanes on the highway  through the use of artificial roadblocks with plastic blockades and cones - their efforts are to be lauded, as the results are obvious and effective.

3. Unexpected Acceleration or unexpected  Significant Speed changes - what is significant acceleration?  Whether it is 20 to 40 mph hastily on a local street, or 60-80 mph on the highway, whatever creates Unexpected Surprises on other drivers is considered dangerous, thus Significant. This creates surprises on others and raise the odds of accidents.  The easiest eg is one making a lane change to the left thinking that one has enough time not knowing that the car on the left suddenly increase its speed from 20 to 40 mph within  2 seconds.
This reckless Behavior also compounds the Blind Spot problem,
If one must increase or reduce speed, one should do it GRADUALLY - and never in an Accelerated rapid manner.

If one would to eliminate the above 3 Behaviors, there will never be accidents ( excluding cases of driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol, sleep depravity, maniac behaviors).
Thus the goal of zero Accidents.
To eliminate all the above 3 behaviors requires the strongest of Discipline instilled in EVERY driver.

So would a self policing Reward system help?

Surely, the physical EZ pass tag we stick onto our car is not well utilized or optimized to the fullest advantage.
What if this tag can become as powerful as a navigation machine, revealing speed and speed changes, alerting us of unexpected changes like turns and lane changes, reminding us on when to turn or change lanes, on a real time basis with live road maps?   And rewards diligent drivers with meaningful, SIGNIFICANT credits (half price bridge and tunnel fees)?

Understanding how the reward program works also help create Awareness of the 3  Behaviors- not being Aware is sometimes the biggest reason of semi-consciously or unconsciously committing a wrong.

Perfect responsible drivers with perfect score should be heavily advertised, so that the irresponsible ones will learn that Perfection is easily feasible, not remote,  and that 100% Discipline is possible if given effort.

Car Insurers seems to be ahead of all this and already offers a navigation  tracking device that allows the drivers the option to implement the device in their car, so to determine their level of diligence and possibly lower their insurance cost if they pass certain levels of the test. Hence, the technology is already existing to implement this.

All the above can be  programmed and easily carried out NOW. So what are we waiting for?

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All under one roof, days of the Tribe - Most Efficient Work Structure

If one gets the choice of redesigning an entire city, town or village for efficiency and results, what critical choices would one make creatively and logistically to maximize work productivity?
The same important question could be asked upon designers of  developing countries in Africa, Latin America as they were just beginning to develop their infrastructures.

Surely, in the world where one sleeps 8 hrs, work 8 hrs, with 1-2 hrs of commute time, and 6 hrs left of Quality time, ease of collaboration & team work and minimization/elimination of useless functions such as daily commute will be doubtlessly beneficial.
Just eliminating that 1-2 hrs of commute time would increase your quality time from 16% to a whopping 33% increase  - enough to make a difference in achieving or not achieving your life goals.

 In the current era of WeWork, Welive and many other variants and hybrids of Sharing, Working Together, certain breakthroughs will soon evolve out of this industry.

So Viola!
Wont it be nice if somehow all daily commute time is eliminated as we work and live under the same roof (much like WeWork and Welive combined into one) and network/work/play with people under  similar passions or industry, every single day?
Surely, this could be easily and intelligently structured,  to the point where mentoring/education/solution structuring and brainstorming/startup incubation/networking/microlending & fundraising would all come under one roof.

And apply this concept in every city in the world.


A building structured on Coworking/Coliving based on industry/passion/cause(non profit).

This is the best structure in light of mentoring and spreading the effect of mentoring,  so to achieve the social goal of
 
Everyone being able to not just
"help themselves"
but also super enough to
"help others help themselves" 
which is the geometric Community solution of "passing it forward" towards solving everything.

In our previous blogs, we talked extensively on the importance of
"Future of Work" -Aligning ones passion and purpose in Work, where Work = Play



http://idu1.blogspot.com/2015/12/future-of-work-aligning-ones-passion_31.html
Future of Work = Aligning one's Passion and Life Purpose with Work - Part 2

and


"the Perfect Team" on building perfectly on team chemistry,


http://idu1.blogspot.com/2015/12/ending-era-of-failures-why-good-ideas_31.html
Ending the era of Failures- why good ideas fail....the Perfect Team at a single click of a button- PART 2

and

"The Enabler to Solve ALL problems"- zooming in on Everything we know to build the perfect platform to solve anything and everything.



Finally, The Enabler to solve all social problems

All the above could be streamlined and put in motion on steroid speed with the  "All under one roof" structure.

One could however argue the necessity of such a structure as we are moving toward a communication channel/culture that is totally online. However, nothing beats the Fun of working physically together  and meeting, networking, playing with people with similar Passions. Furthermore, team building does require that face to face chemistry that will be difficult to grasp online.

This Co-Live plus  Co-Work structure organized by industry/passion is the most efficient Work structure - 100% efficiency with zero slack (no commute, and networking slack), and comes with total Fun, Passion and Fulfillment.

Wont it be nirvana if this structure could be applied Everywhere, in every city in the world?

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Automation - The Final Enlightenment ?

Voices of fear roam the labor market these days  as multi industry Automation is finally knocking on the door steps.

McDonald has just experimented with automated restaurants. One bar in the west coast just experimented with a robot bartender.
Factories and warehouses such as amazon and others alike have already implement behemoth automation to heavily cut labor cost.
And it is not just the manufacturing and retail sector, but but also the  service sector where automated software are replacing intellectual labor, such as the legal industry.

So is this final Automation of all jobs and all things  truly the Final killer of all jobs?

"When it is most dark, emerges the light"

If past history is any guide (such as the computer and software industry history), not only will automation not be that killer, it will create an unprecedented new renaissance of jobs and Opportunities.

A Golden era of Entrepreneurship.

There are currently about 6 million small businesses in the US- what if there is 100 Million small businesses due to automation?
Will there be more jobs or less? More GDP or less?

When that day of final automation arrives, one just got to be a Marketer to run any business of any passion.  No longer will one has to be involved with the manual mundane duties, micro managing employees, constantly afraid of human errors and inefficiency.  Most time will be spent on just Marketing -  truly competing by doing our best for the customers, in products and services. Entrepreneurship will no longer be so fearful  and daunting, where the founder used to be jack of all trades, filling in  every single role, from accounting, to operation to marketing, to doing the most manual clerical work - all these functions will become automated.

Entrepreneurship will be much more easier to teach, mastered and Practiced.  Anyone and Everyone can finally be given a fair shot.
We will all stop being Employees of the  manual, mundane chores 
And become Owners.
Owners of our own destiny.
And most  importantly, humans may finally be Enlightened and have a chance at Perfection.

huh?!

In our 2 blogs below,  we argue that Entrepreneurship is the best way to educate Good Morals, Responsibility and Happiness.

http://iduidu.blogspot.com/2012/10/is-sales-and-marketing-ultimate-savior.html

Is Sales and Marketing the Ultimate Savior to our Education System?!!




Teaching Success and Good Morals in 60 days?! The age of Simplicity ......bringing back that lemonade stand

Entrepreneurship will infuse Social Personal  Growth to Everyone, on an unprecedented level.
If one would look at human history as one of Individual Growth (self mastery, working well with different others, managing others, being good inspirational leaders, becoming great mentors passing it forward), one of Learning and Personal Growth-whether it is Communism (complacency of growth, lack of motivation fails it) vs Capitalism(work or die), or Right vs Left vs Middle(once Everyone achieve self growth, all these arguments do not matter much) or The Perilous Race between Science and Good Morals - automation will finally bring us toward that final frontier of rapid learning, Self Growth for everyone.

It is about time we stop doing the meaningless manual jobs that machines could perform and start doing work that has Meaning.
If Life is about having Fulfillment and Fun, then work should be FUN and Meaningful  based on ones Passion and Purpose.
 Entrepreneurship teaches us how to Live and Work with Others, and it is the fastest ticket to that Personal growth.

Entrepreneurship will become a way of life, much like breathing, eating, walking, sleeping.

One could argue automation or use of household robots to do ordinary chores will create that ultimate laziness or complacency, the decadence we fear.   But one must remember that it still require economic means to acquire  these robots, the labor to service and maintain them, and buy whatever supply needed  if the business robots would to create the final products to market.

And then there is competition!
Entrepreneurs competing against each other, all using automation!
These requires agile thinking, effort and diligence- constantly!  At no time can we afford to let our mind  degrade into decadence, complacency.

So yes, automation will replace the manual jobs, but it also creates a lifetime opportunity of what is meaningful and real -Entrepreneurship  and Personal Growth.

Yes the day awaits us.
The day when we stop being Employee and become a Founder.
A Founder of products and services based on our Dreams and Passions.

And perhaps, 
we will transit from saying
 "pay me more"
to
 "how do i serve u best?"


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