United StatesHumans follow Lyft’s driverless cars more closely than manual vehicles.
The driverless cars themselves keep longer gaps and drive more smoothly than human drivers.
The Communications Engineering study, still an accepted manuscript, uses 3 real-world datasets and links the riskier following partly to leaders’ stability.
Similar changes appear in the Waymo and cruise-control datasets, and edits remain before the final version.
Sources: Nature