The Physics of Traffic

This piece of genius does a good job of distilling a lot of the math behind traffic, which is something of a minor obsession of mine.

What’s new to me is the concept of anti-traffic spacing, which, now that you think about it for five minutes, makes sense.

But more intriguingly, it makes a sensational argument for driverless cars. Because computer-driven cars could be programmed to behave in an optimal, coordinated manner so as to mitigate traffic in a way human drivers simply can’t.