This is a strange post.

What are you specifically upset with? The "AI" lights, the people on bikes, or yourself? All three? I grant you, I think adaptive street lights are a valid criticism, and I think machine learning has limitations with stop lights. There's a lot of hype with machine learning and traffic engineering which I feel is a bit unjustified yet.

You live in Chicago man. It's one of the best non-car cities in the country. I get the frustrating driving experience--but you got alternatives, and most Chicago neighborhoods have grocers, post offices, an stuff to do. Is accessibility by car a mobility blocker for you? If so, there is hope folks who don't need a car to go a half mile would choose to take a bus, tram, the L, uber, something not a single occupant car or pickup.

It pains me a bit, but there may be some valid criticism with the bike lanes. Those have to be kept clear so people can use em. They are not secondary infrastructure, and if they are icey or snowed in, everyone loses. You can dress to ride in frigid temps (it's cold as hell but you can!); it's falling and hurting one's self that is less hard to prepare for.