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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by jfim on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:47PM (#13170835)
> Slug lanes also become more useful with self driving cars.

And faster. A lot of the traffic on highways is caused by rubbernecking, which self-driving cars are mostly immune to.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by gohrt on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:22AM (#13174240)
If one driver in 20 is a rubbernecker, all the cars slow down.
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