Can Autonomous Vehicles Avoid Traffic Jams?

Have you ever been at a stoplight and wondered why it takes an eternity to start moving after the light turns green? Well it turns out that drivers are not perfect (I didn’t have to tell you that). But what you might not have known is that due to human drivers being imperfect, traffic jams can be created for no apparent reason. In an experiment, researchers had between drivers driving in a circle at a target speed. Once they drove for a few minutes, something surprising happened: traffic jams magically appeared and disappeared spontaneously! This is known as a ‘phantom traffic…