Final thoughts

The biggest difficulties we faced as a team were twofold: (1) our goal of implementing all functionalities suggested in the design phase was too ambitious given the limited time we had, and (2) even though three of us collaborated leveraging our interdisciplinary expertises, the project was more code-intensive and time-consuming than we had imagined.

However, as our project was time-consuming and code-intensive, we needed more time to work.
Thus, we would have been much better off had we had another member with a strong JAVA background or software engineering knowledge.

Nonetheless, I believe that we did a very good job at developing and integrating some of the key initial ideas in terms of building user-friendly tangible user interface and creating a dynamic, robust system. However, we could not implement some of the key concepts of the system(i.e. velocity and interaction between cars). Thus, we needed to eliminate some key features such as traffic jam and speed change to dispense with complex algorithm involving velocity and car interaction.