Here’s some proof that some people can’t even drive at a constant speed when required to do so.
Damn humans and their errors.
Pinpointing the causes of shockwave jams is an exercise in psychology more than anything else. “If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred. Human error is needed to cause the fluctuations in behaviour,” says Rees.
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NewScientist.com news service
Max Glaskin
