Daily Mail Online: MIT researchers reveal self driving car plan that kills off road signs
A British daily tabloid newspaper Daily Mail published an article on the new research by Tachet et al. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) is one of the authors.
external pageThe article was published in the online version of Daily Mail in March, 2016. The research paper external pageRevisiting Street Intersections Using Slot-Based Systems was published in PLOS One.
"Similar to the systems used by air-traffic control, as each vehicle approaches an intersection, it automatically requests access from the traffic management system. It then receives its assigned time or 'slot' to pass through the intersection. Doing this would speed up the overall flow, avoiding the 'stop and go' pattern of current roadways." "'Travel and waiting times would be considerably reduces and fuel consumption would go down,' says Professor Dirk Helbing of the ETHZ," Daily Mail wrote.