Will Driverless Cars Increase Traffic Congestion?

Among the many things driverless cars will bring to society, a reduction in congestion is supposed to be one, due in large part because of their ability to travel much more closely together. Except that future is by no means certain, as a recent paper from Arthur D. Little highlights. It argues that, in the short-term, congestion is likely to get worse after the introduction of autonomous vehicles.

This is likely to occur as driverless cars share the roads with human drivers in a combination that the researchers believe will increase traffic jams by around 16 percent. The results emerged after a micro-simulation was undertaken at a major intersection in Frankfurt that is notorious locally for the scale of traffic jams during the evening rush hour.

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