Homework 10: Herds, flocks, and traffic jams
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| **Due Date**: 11:59pm March 11, 2025                                         |
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| Homework should be submitted as a single Jupyter notebook to Dropbox         |
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To do **in advance of this homework**:

* Make sure you have run the code in Allen Downey's Chapter 10 notebook.

Exercises
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Complete the exercises corresponding to Exercise 10.1 -- 10.2 in Chapter 10 of
Think Complexity (version 2):

1. In the traffic jam simulation, define a class, ``BetterDriver``, that
   inherits from ``Driver`` and overrides ``choose_acceleration``. See if you
   can define driving rules that do better than the basic implementation in
   ``Driver``. You might try to achieve higher average speed, or a lower number
   of collisions.

2. **(BONUS)** The code for my Jupyter port of Downey's Boid implementation is
   in ``Boids7nb.ipynb`` in the ``lab11`` directory of the course repository.
   If you attempt this exercise, make sure you read my notes at the beginning
   of the notebook pertaining to VPython.

   Run the notebook. It should create an animated display showing Boids, as
   white cones, circling a red sphere, which is the carrot. If you click and
   move the mouse, you can move the carrot and see how the Boids react.

   Read the code to see how the parameters control Boid behaviors. Experiment
   with different parameters. What happens if you “turn off” one of the
   behaviors by setting its weight to 0?

   To generate more bird-like behavior, Flake suggests adding a behavior to
   maintain a clear line of sight; in other words, if there is another bird
   directly ahead, the Boid should move away laterally. What effect do you
   expect this rule to have on the behavior of the flock? Implement it and see.


Submission
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Please submit one or two Jupyter notebooks depending on whether or not you
attempted the bonus. There is a placeholder in the ``chap10`` notebook for your
work. You can simply append your work to the end of the ``Boids7nb`` notebook if
you attempt that question.