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I'm not sure why autonomous cars won't solve traffic someday. Traffic causing problems like people blocking intersections, not moving when the light is green,
by RandallBrown 7y ago
I'm not sure why autonomous cars won't solve traffic someday.
Traffic causing problems like people blocking intersections, not moving when the light is green, or improperly merging, won't happen anymore.
Cars will be able to talk to each other and set up optimal routes. They'll be able to more efficiently match up users with carpools. I'm sure you can imagine more.
These things won't happen for a long time and definitely not with the first generation of truly autonomous cars. Once every car on the road is self driving though? Things will definitely change.
- denni9th 7y agoWhile autonomous cars might be able to reduce traffic, they cannot eliminate it entirely. There is a limit on the number of cars which can drive down a road in a certain amount of time. If more cars wish to use the road than capacity allows, then there will be traffic. That can only be solved by increasing capacity, either with more lanes or more roads in the same direction, but this is typically not feasible.
- RandallBrown 7y agoAny type of transportation will eventually suffer from a lack of bandwidth. Busses and trains are better now but they suffer from a major problem of not taking people where they actually want to go. I don't think it's an either/or problem. We'll have autonomous busses, trains, and cars all working together to make travel MUCH better.