Driverless cars can save time, fuel in platoons, says MIT study

Simplest policies of setting a time table to deploy platoons at regular interval result in least delays while saving the most fuel

Autonomous vehicles may save time and fuel by trailing each other in large platoons, according to a study done by some researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Three MIT engineers Sertac Karaman, Aviv Adler and David Miculescu studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays.