I agree with Joe about there being far too little detail about their approach. They only give one equation, and naturally their learning method will be better at optimizing it if the learning method is the only method trying to optimize it. Additionally, it is very unclear how the populations of driving strategies change, and perhaps learn from each other. The heuristics they employ (seeding with intelligent knowledge, selfish strategy, and polite strategy) are unclear. This is a very application-oriented paper.



The results in figures 10 and 11 are interesting, which show that having a small amount of "smart cars" in traffic contributes to improving the overall flow of traffic (according to their metric).