Is rapid transit the best use case for autonomous vehicle technology? Peter Calthorpe and Jerry Walters recently published their thinking about autonomous rapid transit. Combined wtih high-capacity metro transit systems, autonomous rapid transit could avoid the degradation of autonomous vehicle performance from mixed-traffic flow and attract riders from private cars.
Check out the following link for more: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2016/09/06/autonomous-vehicles-hype-and-potential