Bloomberg (Feb. 6) -- Figuring out what the streets will be like once they’re owned by driverless cars isn’t an exact science, but a number of researchers have run game theory-based simulations or real-life experiments to try to work it out. A paper by a team of researchers led by Daniel Work, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Illinois, argued that autonomous vehicles capable of optimizing their speed to avoid stopping would put an end to irritating stop-and-go waves.