Traffic lights

Problem:

I hate traffic lights. I often will drive on side streets and brave school buses, children waiting for said busses, stop signs, and old people driving just to avoid turning left at that light that I hate so much. Roundabouts and 4-way stops remove them, and they could be a better solution but for the idiots who get confused and destroy any efficiency that they otherwise might create.

Solution:

Require localizers in every car. Apparently the internet doesn't know what a localizer means (at least, what I think it means) so I can't find a definition. Oh wait. Don't worry that they come from science fiction, to the extent that I need them, they're totally possible today. They're totally possible five years ago too, but who cares. So a localizer is a transmitter that will broadcast some information at all times that the car is moving. "Here I am." "Here I am." "Here I am." That's all that they need to say at first. Eventually they, like every other standard and technology, will become more sophisticated and they can say more.

A small, cheap, computer can read the information that they're sending and from that, determine where other cars are, and what they are doing. How does this remove the need for traffic lights? If you always know where other cars are, you can make this computer eliminate car accidents. If you don't have accidents, you don't have to stop at intersections cause it will be impossible for you to hit another vehicle. Eventually you'd reduce the need for a driver at all.

This solution has the detriment that it won't be effective for a decade or so after it starts, but every year that goes by without this requirement causes that much more time before it can be useful. Bush already failed me. Now that we have a democrat who owns the car companies, this should be even easier. This is big government man! C'mon!