But we can't take advantage of these gains until we have driverless *only* roads, so congestion pricing is probably still a good stopgap 4/4
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Replying to @calebwatney
Simulations done by pro-autonomous-car researchers indicate that the increase in throughput is not substantial enough to matter
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Replying to @PittLabs @calebwatney
Can't find this chart, but here's a paper: http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/Papers/FP_NextGenVehicleWhitePaper012414.pdf …pic.twitter.com/PUn9W6aiAX
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an 80% increase in capacity from full automation sounds incredible to me (if that's what I'm seeing here?)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @calebwatney
It's a great improvement! Generally nowhere near whats needed in urban/developed areas with traffic problems, sadly
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Replying to @PittLabs @eigenrobot
Thanks for the link! I'll have to take a deeper look, on the surface though their assumptions seem very conservative
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Replying to @calebwatney @eigenrobot
It is, but the dream of driverless cars one-inch from each other at 100mph can't happen in developed areas.
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Here's the research I think the chart is from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266391751_Cooperative_Adaptive_Cruise_Control_Impact_on_freeway_traffic_flow …
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OP delivers! thank you ^^
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