{"id":36844,"date":"2022-11-25T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36844"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:03:39","slug":"artificial-intelligence-connected-cars-traffic-congestion-rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36844","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say A.I. in connected cars eased rush hour congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 As millions of people travel the interstates this Thanksgiving<\/a>, many will encounter patches of traffic at a standstill for no apparent reason \u2014 no construction or accident. Researchers say the problem is you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Human drivers just don’t do a good job of navigating dense traffic conditions, but an experiment using artificial intelligence in Nashville last week means help could be on the way. In the experiment, specially equipped cars were able to ease rush hour congestion on Interstate-24, researcher Daniel Work said on Tuesday. In addition to lessening driver frustration, Work said less stop-and-go driving means fuel savings and, by extension, less pollution.<\/p>\n

The professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University is one of a group of engineers and mathematicians from universities around the U.S. who have been studying the problem of phantom traffic jams after a simple experiment in Japan<\/a> a dozen years ago showed how they develop. Researchers there put about 20 human drivers on a circular track and asked them to drive at a constant speed. Before long, traffic went from a smooth flow to a series of stops and starts.<\/p>\n