Making Autonomous Intersection Management Backwards-Compatible

Kurt M. Dresner, Peter Stone

Abstract: Traffic congestion and automobile accidents are two of theleading causes of decreased standard of living and lost pro-ductivity in urban settings. Recent advances in artificial in-telligence suggest that autonomous vehicle navigation willbe possible in the near future. Individual cars can nowbe equipped with features of autonomy such as adaptivecruise control, GPS-based route planning (Rogers, Flechter,& Langley 1999; Schonberg