Problem of poisson probability

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Cars pass a certain street location according to a Poisson process with rate λ. A woman who want to cross the street at that location waits until she can see that no cars will come by in the next T time units.

a) Find the probability that her waiting time is zero

b) Find her expected waiting time

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