Seeker: You’re Driving Wrong and It’s Causing Traffic Jams

Long ago we have implemented a simple traffic model, Nagel-Schreckenberg model (see this post). This model demonstrates how small errors or perturbations to traffic flow could amplify and cause traffic jams.

Further research in this direction suggests that we could slightly modify cruise control present in the most modern cars to try prevent traffic jams. A small change would be needed - cars just have to keep the same distance from the car in front of them as well as from the car behind them. See this Seeker video for more details.