Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down

[rangerrebew]

Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down

The math says that if you and everyone else on the road kept an equal distance between the cars ahead and behind, traffic would move twice as quickly.
 

Ah, the phantom traffic jam. You know, that thing where the flow suddenly slows to a halt and you inch forward for a half hour and then things pick up again and you look around for an accident or construction or anything at all for Pete’s sake that might justify the time you just wasted. But no, nothing. It's as if the fates chose this particular time and place to screw with you.

https://www.wired.com/story/math-says-youre-driving-wrong-and-its-slowing-us-all-down/

[DB]

That's why self driving cars could radically increase the traffic flows in large cities without the need for larger roads - but only if human drivers are banned in those areas.

I bet that day will come sooner than many people think. The economic forces that drive that are huge.