Ant Traffic Control
Wow, what can’t ants teach us. A new study shows some insight into traffic control, and congestion prevention by observing how ants handle congestion. When the ants were forced onto a narrow pathway causing congestion toward a food source, the ants in traffic would push the returning ants off the path so that they create a new one to ease the congestion. This was intentional since this behavior was not seen when there was no congestion. The ants would always create different routes if they felt there was a traffic jam to keep everything efficient.
He said that while you cannot allow cars to collide with vehicles coming in the opposite direction as a form of traffic control, you could do the next best thing and allow them to communicate.
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