Computer scientist Berthold Horn has developed a counter-intuitive approach to smooth out naturally occurring clumps of freeway traffic.
133 months ago

If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no...
133 months ago

New research may have come up with a solution for this frustrating traffic pattern: maintaining equal spacing between cars on the road, rather than tailgating.
81 months ago

The sudden backups on highways that appear even when there's no accident ahead have annoyed drivers for ages. Now, MIT researchers have...
82 months ago

Professor Berthold Horn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has selected the students of Midcoast Maine-based Gizmo Garden to...
96 months ago

Traffic jams could be solved with a simple change in how drivers and car sensors perceive the other cars around them.
83 months ago

Maintaining equal distance between cars in front of and behind you is said to be key for optimal traffic flow.
83 months ago

But MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for your car that would.
83 months ago

Keeping an equal distance between cars ahead and behind may eliminate "phantom" traffic jams.
81 months ago

Traffic on the freeway between Sacramento and San Francisco has gotten much worse over the past decade. And it often comes to a crawl around...
67 months ago