LEGO Trucks Simulate Traffic Behavior by Human and Robot Drivers

LEGO Traffic Experiment Shows How Traffic Jams Appear Out of Nowhere

Traffic jams don’t always start with accidents… sometimes, they start with us, and this clever LEGO experiment makes that painfully obvious. In this video, Youtuber Brick Technology recreates a real-world traffic flow experiment using motorized LEGO trucks driving in a loop. Each vehicle is programmed to behave like a human driver: speeding up, slowing down, hesitating, and before long, everything spirals into a full-blown jam with no obvious ca…

LEGO Trucks Simulate Traffic Behavior by Human and Robot Drivers

YouTuber Brick Technology (previously at Neatorama) built a LEGO traffic simulation as a miniature version of Yuki Sugiyama's full-size traffic experiment on what causes traffic jams. While this involves a round track with no intersections or turns, the results are similar to what we may encounter in real life.  First he has to build a track using magnetic guidance, and then the trucks. They are programmed to act either like human drivers or rob…