Vehicle control

The study of traffic flow and control on roads depends on many fields. One field is how humans actually drive their cars. To study this, many models have been proposed and studied. The latest one just published is simply titled How human drivers control their vehicle, published this past week by Peter Wagner from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

If you skip through the math and the pretty graphs, you can find a few interesting conclusions. My pick is this one:

Interestingly, when a vehicle is in following mode the decelerations applied are rather small, typically the drivers control their vehicle not by applying the brakes but simply by stepping off the gas.

Sounds familiar? It sure does to me!

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