Vent: The new AI traffic routing system in Columbus caused a 3-hour delivery delay

It kept sending trucks down a closed bridge for a full afternoon, so I had to ignore it and use the old paper map. Has anyone else had their local AI tools just fail on basic local knowledge?

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paigewood2mo agoMost Upvoted

A closed bridge for a full afternoon? That's a pretty big thing for the system to miss. You'd think a basic road closure would be the first thing it knows.

max38812d ago

Timing is everything with updates like that. @lee_barnes70 is right, if the city doesn't send the info to the system it's basically flying blind. But that's still a massive failure on their end to not log a closed bridge right away. You can't expect a road network to reroute people if it doesn't even know a major road is gone. It's like having a map with a chunk ripped out and blaming the map for being wrong. Feels like the whole chain of communication just broke down.

lee_barnes702mo ago

Honestly, that's on the city for not updating the closure data fast enough. The AI can only work with what it's given.