The end of stop-and-go? What self-driving cars may mean for traffic

AI might be arriving with a bang, but autonomous cars are crawling closer at a snail’s pace. What’s the delay? And what can we expect to change on our roads in the next decade? — Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa

MUNICH: Feel like reading or watching a movie when you’re stuck in stop-and-go traffic? Thanks to advancing technology that’s now a possibility not only for a car’s passengers but also the driver.

For example, the current S-Class from Mercedes, which reaches Level 3 (or “highly automated”) self-driving according to the authoritative classification of the SAE International organisation.