L. Craig Davis.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 45-45
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Reports on the findings of traffic studies conducted by L. Craig Davis, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The results of the study found that automated spacing of cars would help eliminate traffic jams. As suspected, today's congested highways could better accommodate traffic if only people would drive with more precision and sense. That's the conclusion of Craig Davis, who used computer simulations to show that many traffic tie-ups could be avoided if just one in five vehicles on the road used adaptive cruise-control (ACC) technology, which employs radar to maintain a safe distance from another car or truck. Davis asserts in the June, 2004 'Physical Review E' that extra spacing between vehicles is needed to account for sluggish human reaction times.