Do passengers ever know when pilots use cruise control?
If computers are driving, hopefully they are better at route-planning than humans, which would mitigate congestion, and in theory, they would not need following distances that cater to human reflexes.
If you have a two-second following distance at 30 MPH and a computer could safely maintain a 0.9-second interval at all speeds, then couldn't you have the same cars on the same roads maintaining 60 MPH?
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I recently visited the in-laws in Colorado and got to drive an autonomous John Deere.
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That kind of sounds like my old landlord purchasing a Roomba. Instead of vacuuming, he watched the robot vacuum. I guess that it was more entertaining, but did not save any time.