Aren't there simpler to implement solutions that also work with human driven vehicles? I'm thinking about roundabouts and smart trafic lights, that stay green on the larger street and have detectors on the smaller ones crossing them to automatically switch a few seconds after a car arrives, so both waste less time waiting.
Another intermediate solution to make it work with human drivers is to have an automatic driving mode (already available on a few car models) that could be automatically turned on 100 m away from such an intersection, so the human driver loses control of his vehicle (after indicating which way he wants to go, with right ahead as a default if they don't react in time) to optimise the intersection crossing and retakes control once the intersection is passed.
Aren't there simpler to implement solutions that also work with human driven vehicles? I'm thinking about roundabouts and smart trafic lights, that stay green on the larger street and have detectors on the smaller ones crossing them to automatically switch a few seconds after a car arrives, so both waste less time waiting.
Another intermediate solution to make it work with human drivers is to have an automatic driving mode (already available on a few car models) that could be automatically turned on 100 m away from such an intersection, so the human driver loses control of his vehicle (after indicating which way he wants to go, with right ahead as a default if they don't react in time) to optimise the intersection crossing and retakes control once the intersection is passed.