A Simple Highway Simulator
This little app is a simple simulator of cars on a highway. Play with the parameters or stop any car by touching it. Choose between two kind of AI engines
A Simple Highway Simulator launched on October 24, 2016 with 219 votes, #107 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
A Simple Highway Simulator models car traffic on a highway using two different AI engines to control vehicle behavior. Users can adjust parameters to influence traffic flow or manually stop individual cars by touching them. The simulation demonstrates how self-driving cars could improve highway throughput and resource efficiency. Built with TypeScript and SVG, it lets players experiment with settings to maximize traffic performance.
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This little app is a simple simulator of cars on a highway. Play with the parameters or stop any car by touching it. As a game try to maximize the throughput by playing with the parameters. It will show you why traffic will become much more performant and use less resources once everyone drives self-driving cars. Typescript, SVG and a simple state machine for each car (You can call it AI if you want ;-). The cars are not very smart. The code is not very pretty. Edge cases are not handled well. And it performs badly on low-CPU devices. Memory leaks? Probably yes. Find the source code herefrom muehlemann.com
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