Opinion: How Self-driving Cars And Human-driven Cars Could Share The Road

This policy brief from Carnegie Mellon University examines the transition of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) sharing the same roads. Carlee Joe-Wong, the Robert E. Doherty Career Development Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at CMU, shares her thoughts on how this might play out. The research studies the effects of AVs on traffic flow and how AVs can interact with human drivers. It also reviews the benefits of AVs in transportation networks in terms of their potential to operate at greater densities and lower travel times.