[kthejoker2]

Anyone who commutes in a large city quickly comes to recognize when there has been either a major accident or a higher incident of minor accidents that day. Potentially even hours before, but the ramifications are right there in front of your bumper.

And conversely there are days when the stars seem to align and your commute is unusually short and free of significant time going 0-5 mph. Sure you still crawl, but by comparison it feels great.

Again, this is almost entirely an artifact of human-caused preventable road accidents. I fail to see how, if you accept the premise that driverless cars will dramatically reduce or outright eliminate accidents, traffic will not be permanently improved.