Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving

braintruffle September 18, 2025
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To learn for free on Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/braintruffle/ . You'll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Traffic Jam Waves Are Counterintuitive Exclusive content for this video https://www.patreon.com/braintruffle -------------------------------- +3 coding tutorials Timetable ----------------- 00:00 The Phantom Jam Experiment 03:24 How Jams Travel in Time 07:07 Drivers Are Oscillators 15:40 The String Stability Problem 25:18 Few Can Stop All Waves 31:00 Jam-Free Traffic Special thanks to my Patreon supporters https://www.patreon.com/braintruffle -------------------------------- Alexandros Karypidis Aris Chanmin Jun Dane Darrell Thomas David David Scheer Dennis Weishaar FinTech800 FL TA G Ryan Houston Lucas Hugh Tyney Jacques West jollyrogerer Ka Lok Lam Ken KK LC's Channel Luis Adame Rodríguez Marac Matthew Chang Matthew Piziak Nandan Shettigar nullstyle oddron Patrick Gibson RexAiLab Ruben Fernandez Ryan Fergerson Sanjay Vonk Sergi TedMeftah Tristan Vladyslav Fediukov whetupaitai gmail com 3ichess ... and all my patrons! References -------------------- Ring Road Experiment: Raphael E. Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, Nathaniel Hamilton, R’mani Haulcy, Hannah Pohlmann, Fangyu Wu, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel B. Work, Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 89, 2018, Pages 205-221. TDOT I-24 MOTION Project: Courtesy of The Tennessee Department of Transportation's I-24 MOTION Project Music by Epidemic Sound ------------------------------------------ Miles - Out To The World Symmetry - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Jakob Ahlbom Distant Heartbeat - David Celeste Happy Now (Instrumental Version) - Maybe Loose Sails - Pulsed This video was sponsored by Brilliant Thank you for watching! Torsten

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