Autonomous Vehicles for Social Good: Learning to Solve Congestion (bair.berkeley.edu)

Interesting stuff - will take a while, but I agree that the biggest contribution AVs have won't be the self-driving part, it'll be how they interact with cities.

also check out the stanford paper on AV economics - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers... the tl;dr is pooling and microtolling will become much more common