Self-driving cars alone won't ease gridlock

• Autores: Anna Nowogrodzki
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3057, 2016, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With ordinary traffic lights, autonomous vehicles don't improve traffic flow at all in most cases, according to computer simulations by Carlos Gershenson and Jorge Zapotecatl at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. Its only when traffic reaches near-gridlock that autonomous cars boost efficiency--and by just 7%.