Nashville, Tenn. (Associated Press) — Researchers at Vanderbilt University and other schools across the country are running an experiment in Nashville next week in an effort to reduce the number of intermittent traffic jams on the local highway.
The new trial will deploy up to 100 vehicles equipped with cruise control technology along a 4-mile stretch of Interstate 24 during the morning rush hour, according to a Vanderbilt press release. This extension is equipped with hundreds of ultra-high-resolution cameras that will give researchers a digital model of how each vehicle behaves.
Previous research has shown that a small percentage of AI-equipped vehicles can go a long way toward mitigating the stop-and-go dynamic that often leads to traffic jams for no apparent reason. In addition to being frustrating, these jams waste fuel and add to pollution. The trial next week will help researchers determine whether the traffic improvements from the smaller experiment can be replicated on a much larger scale.
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