Forget the science fiction movies; in real life, AVs are no longer dreams, yet they are turning into reality. While giants like Tesla, Waymo, and Uber forge ahead in self-driving technology, much of the intelligence lying underneath for doing so is less obvious: the art of managing fleets of autonomous vehicles, a budding discipline that is about to flip everything ...

I was skeptical when I first heard about autonomous vehicles (AVs). Could cars really drive themselves—safely? Would they help reduce the frustration of sitting in traffic for hours? As the years have passed and technology has continued to evolve, it’s become obvious that these futuristic vehicles could make a huge impact on how autonomous vehicles will affect traffic flow and ...