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> Self-driving cars ... could change this equation by intelligently routing cars around bottlenecks and avoiding the neighborhood entirely Self-driving cars ca
by coryfklein 10y ago
> Self-driving cars ... could change this equation by intelligently routing cars around bottlenecks and avoiding the neighborhood entirely
Self-driving cars can do even better than that - they can eliminate the "stopping" nature of the intersection entirely. If the self-driving cars are able to determine the position and speed of other cars approaching the intersection, you can just have the traffic streams pass right through each other. [1]
[1] Autonomous Intersection Management: Traffic Control for the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A