Making self-driving cars future-ready! Shared autonomous vehicles can fix traffic congestion problem

Someday in the future, if you believe the hype, we'll all get around in self-driving cars. Overall, the prediction is that autonomous vehicles will reduce traffic congestion . Due to their convenience, self-driving cars may actually increase the number of trips taken. Self-driving cars may exacerbate urban sprawl with commuters content to relax in their vehicles for a long commute.But shared self-driving cars may combat these problems and deliver the much-longed for free-flowing traffic. Shared self-driving cars may even complement or replace conventional fixed-schedule and fixed-route transit systems, such as buses.Shared self-driving cars coupled with transit could be one solution to cities' traffic congestion problems.