On 23/05/15 10:04, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Gridlock can only be addressed by Mass Transit/Public Transport. The rest of > the time, there is > plenty of unused road surface for electric and driverless cars. ...
Perhaps dirver-less cars could increase road capacity by implementing dynamic contraflow. A convoy of cars would drive at full speed down the "wrong" side of the street. When they encountered traffic coming the opposite direction they would signal to the cars in the adjacent lane to make room, swerving out of the way at the last second. Something similar is already done with some trains which share the one track, both ways, but it does not always work: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2002/rair/rair2002001.aspx -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
