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Originally Posted by Woodengun
If you commute on urban freeways during rush hour, some automated driving sounds very much needed.
Computer driven cars can drive much more densely than people driven cars. You enter your destination and at on ramp computer takes over . Wouldnt surprise me if computer driven cars could be spaced 1 inch apart. And not lose significant speed during entry/exit of freeways. Computer would shuffle cars around based on where their exit was. No more idiots doing the 3 lane shuffle to exit HERE! Lol.
Once on locals or out of dense urban/rush hour traffic, car control is returned to person driving car. A lot of details would need to be worked out but that is what I would see happening.
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Yup, in an urban environment it would be theoretically possible to eliminate congestion entirely on interstate highways if all cars were automated.