Originally Posted by
kludgefudge
+1
Sounds like the most likely scenario for what fully automated traffic might look like. Drive your car to the freeway where it becomes your own personal train car. obviously these freeways would have to be robot-car only- no '67 chevys allowed. Honestly, Its the way I would like to see car travel go in the future. its not perfect but we allready have the highway system connecting all our cities instead of trains, so we kinda have to use them.
It takes the average person about 215 milliseconds to react to something. Computers can react much faster. If future cars are programed to sense pedestrians, cyclists, dogs, whatever, they will have faster reaction times than the average human. It seems to me like computer controlled cars would be safer in city driving.