A lot of bottlenecks we encounter on the road are actually avoidable
Would you follow the speed on your driver display or satnav if it promised to keep you moving and out of traffic jams? That’s the plan for future Google Maps updates.
Removing unnecessary bottlenecks is the tech behemoth’s latest proposal. The creator of Android Auto intends to introduce a guidance speed for the driver—it has published an application designed to avoid ‘ghost traffic jams.’ Those are the ones where someone in the middle or fast lane of the highway slows down for no apparent reason, catalyzing a Mexican wave of brake lights and causing a concertina of cars. We’ve all been there.
The manual way us lowly humans are managing clearly has varying degrees of success. Dhillon and Wadhwa suggest that in time, this solution will be also helpful when self-driving cars make it onto the road. To geek out on the full patent, you can read more here.See Also Read Next Toyota is offering the Vios 1.3 J MT for just P8,038 per month View other articles about:
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