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One thing though, when you increase the speed that cars go at on a road, you decrease the bandwidth of the road (due to the way halting distance increases with
by FreeFull 15y ago
One thing though, when you increase the speed that cars go at on a road, you decrease the bandwidth of the road (due to the way halting distance increases with speed, the cars have to be further apart).
- orangecat 15y agoThroughput still increases because each car won't need to be on the road as long. And computer-controlled cars can potentially have less spacing and still be safer, because they'll have much better effective reaction times.
- Gustomaximus 15y agoThis can be offset by the reaction time of computers (assuming braking distance being equal between cars) as the gap is really for reaction time. Or driverless vehicles could take it even further where a lead car could communicate with a following vehicle so when the lead cars brakes are applied simultaneously the cars behind do also reducing the delay even further.