Work’s presentation titled “Autonomous Vehicles: The End of Traffic?” detailed the future adaptations and challenges that face the increased move toward vehicle automation.
While the idea of people each having their own autonomous vehicle to travel in seems like the next step in American transportation, Work said it will take more than just a few autonomous vehicles to help change traffic issues.
Work said a few autonomous vehicles on the road and those with adaptive cruise controls, which automatically slow down with traffic when cruise control is enabled, can help elevate phantom traffic jams.
Work showed several videos of his work on analyzing traffic patterns. One of those videos was of the collaboration between Ford and Vanderbilt University that studied the effects of adaptive cruise control in reducing and eliminating phantom traffic jams.
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