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> Self driving electric cars will have little effect on traffic congestion. Are you sure? It seems like it would definitely have a decent impact on traffic in
by forgotpasswd3x 12y ago
> Self driving electric cars will have little effect on traffic congestion.
Are you sure? It seems like it would definitely have a decent impact on traffic in certain situations, like those traffic jams that are only caused by people slowing down too early and speeding up too late, compressing the traffic.
I believe a lot of problems of traffic could be fixed with self-driving cars, especially if they worked together.
Certainly you'll never make certain cities free of traffic congestion, but I think a lot could be done in smaller cities and suburbs.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoActually, I think the biggest market will be china, where mega cities like Beijing are incredibly congested without much more room to build anymore roads. The gov might just say: self-driving only inside the 5th ring, and the traffic would be much much better, even it just applied to limited access ring roads (though I bet they would do arterials also).