[carlmr]

Yeah, the non-accident, jerky kind of traffic is the one that automatic cars will almost eliminate completely. If we get to fully networked automatic cars we can use swarm intelligence to make them all accelerate at the same time and slowly increase the speed. Traffic is gone.

And accidents I believe will also be minimized as soon as we get to full-automation. Even the less than ideal automatic Teslas seem to be faring slightly better than human drivers. Imagine how far we can get in 10-20 years. I'd guess maybe 1% the accidents we have now.