Rather than 100 automated cars, just use one daily commuter. If you commute along a stretch of highway every day, then you know exactly where the "stop waves"

Rather than 100 automated cars, just use one daily commuter. If you commute along a stretch of highway every day, then you know exactly where the "stop waves" tend to appear. That's the place where you stop driving like a Wolf, and instead drive like a Shepherd: stop speeding and tailgating, and instead open up a large buffer. I've found that this works well in some places. The other drivers seem to know what you're doing, and sometimes you'll even see others using the same technique. But in other spots everyone seems clueless, and they'll race to fill up the tiniest hole. Also, as with the Koshima monkeys washing potatos or Blue Tits & milk bottles, in the last ten years the trick seems to be spreading. Some of our "clueless" regions have experienced a state change, and the daily jams seem to appear less often. I wonder if the articles below have a simple cause: http://blog.tstc.org/2010/09/23/u-s-traffic-fatalities-plummet-but-why/ http://blog.tstc.org/2010/09/23/u-s-traffic-fatalities-plumm... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/2009-traffic-deaths-were-the-lowest-in-a-century/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/2009-traffic-de... http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-09-1Aroaddeaths09_ST_N.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-09-1Aroaddeaths0...