Wednesday, 4. February 2009
Topic: NATURE - on February 4, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Taking Traffic Control Lessons — From Ants
If humans took their cues from ants, they might spend less time in traffic.
When opposing streams of leafcutter ants share a narrow path, they instinctively alternate flows in the most efficient way possible. Studying how ants manage this could provide the basis for a system of driverless cars running on ant traffic algorithms.
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