Roads With No Traffic Lights

MIT Explores The Idea Of Roads With No Traffic Lights (+Video)

Tyler Lee | March 21, 2016

Traffic lights are a necessity since at the moment, pretty much all vehicles are driven by humans, and sometimes even humans need a little help in being told when to stop and let others go. However what if there was a future in which the need for traffic lights was no longer needed? How would traffic function in that case?
The folks at MIT have recently conducted a study (via The Next Web) in which they tested a road network that had no traffic lights at all.

Vehicles are emerging today that use sensors to remain at a safe distance from each other as they move through a four-way intersection. By removing the waits caused by traffic lights, these so called Slot-based intersections speed up traffic flow.  Source: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3045942/car-tech/mit-hopes-to-eliminate-traffic-lights.html

<more at http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/03/mit-roads-with-no-traffic-lights/; related articles and links: http://senseable.mit.edu/wave/ (+Video) (A Unique Installation by MIT Senseable City Lab) and http://www.computerworld.com/article/3045942/car-tech/mit-hopes-to-eliminate-traffic-lights.html (MIT: Red Lights Could Someay Be a Thing of the Past. March 18, 2016)