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outtie has been showing a system where the traffic signal you're at also shows up on the instrument panel you see how long the light will be in its current state also what speed to maintain to hit the lights without stopping and starting that waste brake pads and fuel and the cars automatic start/stop system gets smarter because it knows the future of the light not just your pressure on the brake pedal no matter how much you shrink down that processing power you've got to get data on what the state of the traffic signals are in the metro how do you do that replace millions of traffic signals with something that beams information to cars that's not practical instead the way Howdy's got this working is they've tied into the network operation center of the Metro traffic system big cities all have this that data on traffic light state gets sent over to English dot - Audi's headquarters process into the right database structure for the cars to understand and then sent back out to them through the built-in outtie data radio and the MMI head unit that's a long way to go to move that data but it doesn't take long and it's an efficient way to gather the information as opposed to getting every light in the city to talk to cars that's just not practice and since this is a mostly passive technology it wouldn't suffer the hurdles that face regulation and acceptance of self-driving cars for example what's really happening here is momentum conservation a key but typically under some concept in vehicle maintenance and fuel consumption reduction you