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AnSionnachRua  ·  4902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A small factor of communication, big result.
$425 million a day? That's enormous.

http://trafficwaves.org/ is an old site that details how traffic jams are formed and how a single person can help to alleviate them by driving at a slower, constant speed with a large space in front of them.

Seems like a great idea to alleviate traffic congestion, but I imagine it'd have other applications, such as alerting you to accidents (and ambulances/police vehicles going to the scene) as well as legal ones - the police may be able to detect if someone is speeding, and so on, and if the information can be recorded it may show up in court. I don't know whether that idea is useful or kind of scary.