Insane simulation of how Google’s Driverless cars could change intersection Interactions

I love to drive. I love long road trips, alone or with the family. Either way, driving is fun for me. Except when it comes to driving in large cities and complicated intersections. Heck, even simple intersections that have short lights and crazy drivers pushing the legal bounds of making it. An animation was recently created by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. It depicts how the flow of traffic through multi-lane intersections could potentially be if driverless cars were the norm. The animation is pretty mesmerizing. I don’t think I could cruise through one at 60 MPH with out having a few small heart attacks. Take a watch and let us know if you could handle the insanity.

we won’t need traffic lights at all (or stop signs, for that matter). Traffic will constantly flow, and at a rate that would probably unnerve the average human driver. The researchers have modeled just how this would work, as you can see in the animation below. You have to admit the patterns are mesmerizing even if the whole idea still seems far-fetched. The yellow cars pausing at the intersection in this simulation are old-timey human-driven vehicles that haven’t yet caught up with the future

Those human-driven cars would have to wait for a signal that would be optimized based on what everyone else is doing. And the same would be true of pedestrians and bike riders. Stone says the system is designed to have flexibility under the assumption not all decisions would be made by computers alone

It sure would make your daily commute to work a whole heck of a lot faster. Until something went wrong and there was a million car pile up. Would you sit idly by and let your car take you for a ride?

Source: 9to5Google