Berkeley duo's plan to solve traffic jams: hyper-fast lanes for self-driving cars

Anthony Barrs and Baiyu Chen’s Hyperlane system proposes clusters of self-driving cars zipping past local traffic at 100mph, controlled by a central computerThese days there are so many self-driving cars coming down the pipeline it seems inevitable they’ll soon be stuck in a robot traffic jam – just like the human-piloted cars of today. Well, not if Anthony Barrs and Baiyu Chen get their way.The two graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a sys