Turning cars into robot traffic managers
Posted 2 days ago
Self-driving cars may one day do more than just get us from point A to point B. By adjusting their speed and position while they merge, or by pacing their average speed on the road, they could also help reduce the bottlenecks and random slowdowns on busy thoroughfares like the Bay Bridge, getting us where we’re going faster and more efficiently than if we all drove ourselves.
UC Berkeley transportation engineers are developing a tool that uses a type of artificial intelligence called deep reinforcement learning to help autonomous, semi-autonomous and human-driven vehicles share the road. The project, called Flow, presented its first proposed standards for solving real-world traffic problems this week at the Conference on Robotic Learning in Zurich, Switzerland.
https://www.technology.org/2018/11/09/turning-cars-into-robot-traffic-managers/
