

California lawmakers want driverless cars legalized within the state


Source: Detroit News

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By drycrust3 on 8/23/2012 2:48:22 PM , Rating: 2
Traffic jams wouldn't need to exist

Unfortunately, you are wrong here. Traffic jams will still exist even if most vehicles were driverless.
The forerunner of a traffic jam is congestion, which naturally happens when you have the concentrative effect of people driving from a wide area e.g. "the suburbs", into a small area e.g. "the central business district", "downtown", etc. No matter how carefully you plan it, you will get congestion. As I see it, "congestion" isn't the same as "a traffic jam", it is just one of the prime ingredients to it, which is when there are so many vehicles within an area they essentially cannot move without hitting one another, which isn't good.
My belief is a lot of traffic jams are avoidable, especially those that happen on a daily basis, and the key to that is proper traffic management.

