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Cruise control avoids jams Cars fitted with "adaptive cruise control" (or ACC) could help ease traffic congestion on motorways according to new computer simulations by physicists in Germany. Arne Kesting of the Technical University in Dresden and colleagues at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg found that congestion could be dramatically reduced even if just a few cars on the motorway use ACC. The work could help in reducing traffic jams in countries where building new roads is not an option (physics/0601096).
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