Many countries is plagued by the problem of traffic congestion in large cities, in order to solve this persistent problems, different countries take different measures. For example, the implementation of motor vehicle quota, increase the proportion of public transport, control the number of official vehicles, promoting "green travel", and so on. And in the chaos of urban construction, traffic chaos of Congo (DRC) in Kinshasa, the capital, in order to solve the traffic problem in the capital, people come up with a a kind of coup: the robot police directing traffic.
In most cases, the traffic police station is the traffic policeman in the street.. But in Kinshasa, two tall like a scarecrow robot instead of the police, in the urban road traffic in a busy area command of the passing vehicles and pedestrians through. To some extent, the two robots traffic police fusion of ordinary traffic police and traffic lights function. The robot traffic police is designed to ease the traffic pressure of the large city of the 10000000 population, to guide the pedestrian safe crossing the road and reduce the occurrence of road accidents..
Two traffic police is located in busy downtown Kinshasa robot victory Street and Lumumba Avenue intersection. According to American CNN reports, the robot reaches as high as 2.44 meters, standing on a high podium, as far as you can see. Robot 24 hours all-weather work, relying on solar panels to provide energy, chest can rotate. In order to record the traffic situation in real time, the robot equipped with multi angle surveillance camera. In addition to directing traffic, but also automatically print out the traffic violation notice. The most amazing is that traffic robot can lift or bend of the arm, to stop the vehicle, or the release of the vehicle; robot can be like a real person, police spoke so that pedestrians know when can cross the road.
The robot traffic police have been the positive evaluation of the government officials and ordinary traveler. Congo (DRC) National Road Safety Committee Chairman Velma said: "this is the road traffic safety initiative. During the rush hours, traffic is a big problem, but with robot police, Kinshasa traffic become more safe. "
Work family Demuto Mutombo said "I work on the robot is quite satisfactory, because commutes to work people do get more respect, which in the traffic police to direct the traffic when not so obvious. Robot traffic police work better than the real person."
Ma Wuqi also confirmed the effectiveness of the robot's work: when the robot stopped, each car stopped, and pedestrians crossing the road so there is no question. Ordinary traffic police often annoy us, so it should allow robots to command traffic." The driver reflected that Congo (Kim) of the traffic police income is meager, sometimes from the driver where extortion fines.
Congo (gold) the government hopes to solve the traffic problems of the robot through the capital kinshasa. Isaye Trese, the designer of the robot traffic police program, said, "Congo (gold) is a poor country, and the government lacks funds.". The use of robot traffic police helps to reduce expenses, thereby helping the government to recover funds after building roads." Still, the robot traffic police can not be the cost of low, each robot cost $15000 (about 93000 yuan).
It is worth mentioning is that traffic robot is completely by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was developed, but also in a great extent the "localization": the general power shortage in Congo (DRC), rely on operating solar energy traffic robot will not take up energy resources; the robot is made of aluminum and stainless steel materials, can adapt to the equatorial countries hot, rainy and hot all year round climate.
Two traffic police on the streets of Kinshasa robot has appeared just a start. Robot R & D team Rong gotchy to Uganda's "New Horizons" newspaper reporter said, only in Kinshasa. "We have selected the 600 dangerous road intersection and the complexity of the traffic situation of area traffic robot delivery". In April 2014, R & D team will also take a traffic robot inventions, traveled to Canada and Switzerland, to participate in the international fair.
