The Solution To Traffic Is Simple, But I Guarantee You'll Hate It

Traffic is unavoidable due to many factors out of our control - people who drive too fast, people who drive too slowly, BMW drivers... - but there is one simple solution to end all solutions. You're not going to like it though

Alex Kersten

01 Sep 2016

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Alright, firstly, the gap left by drivers when accelerating from traffic lights is left there for safety. Even if autonomous cars completely eliminate driver error, they will still fail mechanically from time to time. If the cars are programmed to leave virtually no space in between them, then would be fender benders will become hundred car pile-ups. So, sounds great in theory, not so well in practice. Until an autonomous car is made which NEVER experiences a mechanical failure, this will never, or should never, become practice.

Secondly, im not sure how people are taught to drive in other countries, but in Canada one of the first things we are taught is the two second rule. Meaning the minimum follow distance behind a car in front of you is a full two second count, no matter what speed you are travelling at, as the distance scales with speed. If everyone obeyed this rule that THEY ARE TAUGHT, all of the cars would be perfectly in the middle of each other.

Endrant.

The autonomous cars will be able to warn the other vehicles around them if a fault is detected and they can back off or give them space. Equally other cars could inform faulty cars of a fault for example a blown tail light and drive themselves to the nearest service centre if safe to do so

If cars are travelling at fine tolerances like this every single car in a line of cars has to stop at exactly the same instant whether the line is 10m or 100km long. And if the line is crossing an intersection what happens then? The problem is that people forget that all a computer can do is compute. Wonderfully quickly and comprehensively at times but still only computing It cannot think. Remember that and leave autonomous future carp where it belongs.

If all cars were autonomous we could as well just use the bus. Sucks equally

the power of inertia…

oh, and accelerate as hard as you can if you’re the first car at a green light.

I always do that xD

We are getting lazier people… At least we can troll autonomous cars. Block the road with a cardboard box and the car is useless… A normal car would just go around it

Audi drivers wont be happy to share this🤔

😂

Here’s a simple solution: change your behaviour to make self-driving cars unnecessary. The end.

the other way to speed things up at traffic lights, is drag racing of the line :D works fine

Actually , everything can be made better by computers . So why don’t we make some artificial intelligence that is able to do what humans do , and then all suicide . After all , they would be able to do what we do better .