Just as a thought experiment, how would it be if everyone actually followed the traffic laws all the time?
It's an interesting thought experiment. Letting FSDb drive me around has probably been the closest to robotically following every traffic law I'll ever get. My big observations are:
- people don't slow down immediately at speed limit changes (like a 65 > 55 change). Previously FSDb would just immediately slow all the way down; this is unnecessarily abrupt and gets in the way of the flow of traffic
- stopping fully at all stop signs is much more conservative than is needed for safe driving
I guess if everyone strictly followed every traffic law, including speed limits, we could actually raise the speeds limits (and have the same actual traffic flow speeds as today).
I'd appreciate if everyone maintained reasonable following distances and signalled for lane changes. That would be a big improvement.