Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds

Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic^[1] in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.

Robot vehicles are no longer a sci-fi concept: Cities around the world have been testing autonomous robotaxis^[2] since 2016^[3]. With the...

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