When unexplained traffic jams happen, says an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) study, you can probably blame tailgaters. The researchers say that if drivers kept an even distance between cars rather than driving too close to the vehicle in front, traffic flow would remain even. This "bilateral control," could double the speed of the average vehicle on busy highways.
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This ideal is very different from what is the norm in most thinking about traffic, especially by those stuck in it. Drivers (and, consequently, vehicle control systems) tend to be looking ever forward, responding only to what's ahead and largely ignoring what's behind. Thus, in stop-and-go or slow-and-go situations (traffic jams), each vehicle reacts to the vehicle in front, causing intermittent slowdowns or stops (jams) in wave-like patterns. When vehicles are working to maintain equal distances both from the car in front and the vehicle behind, the MIT paper contends, these wave patterns are minimized and traffic flows more smoothly.
Maintaining even spacing facilitates lane changes and merges as well.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 21 2017, @09:34PM (2 children)
Awesome. Did you buy that somewhere or use Cafe Press?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday December 22 2017, @05:14AM (1 child)
I used Open Office, Put the file on a thumb drive and went to Staples where they did an excellent job of printing up a few on sticky back. Costed me around $20.00 for 2 dozen.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday December 22 2017, @05:16AM
Cost....Guess my mind went blank for a bit.
When life isn't going right, go left.