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I think the idea is that if all cars are automated then the street capacity grows. Imagine if all the cars on the road are talking to each other with swarming
by mason55 10y ago
I think the idea is that if all cars are automated then the street capacity grows. Imagine if all the cars on the road are talking to each other with swarming algorithms. Now you don't need stop lights, you don't have people cutting each other off, you don't have gridlock, you have seamless merging. You can also have the cars intelligently route around congestion to balance flow (similar to what Waze does only much more efficient since all cars on the road could do it).
Sure, there's still a limit to what the road can carry, but it would be much higher.
- Tiktaalik 10y agoI get this idea but the gains from this sort of "perfect drivers" scenario are pretty fuzzy. Maybe the biggest gains for this concept would be on the highway, but in a city with pedestrians and cyclists, where there certainly does need to be stop lights, and much, much more cautious automated drivers, I'm skeptical the effect would be large.
- ufo 10y agoEven if the road capacity increases with self driving cars, I find it hard to believe that its ever going to reach the same densities as other forms of transportation. Pictures like this one[1] come to mind. [1] http://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8ac970c-800wi http://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8a...