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Can anybody who understand the market give me a reason as to why aren't smart roads built simultaneously to these driverless cars? I mean, why focus on making a
by danr4 11y ago
Can anybody who understand the market give me a reason as to why aren't smart roads built simultaneously to these driverless cars? I mean, why focus on making a car able to 'see' rather than being able to communicate with it's infrastructure?
The reasons I thought of:
1. As mentioned - building/upgrading infrastructure is probably much more expensive and logistically elaborate.
2. Market penetration - current batch of driverless cars can drive on existing infrastructure - no need to wait.
3. If smart cars won't be usable dumb roads it will also be hard to sell
4. Smart, durable, cost-effective infrastructure hasn't been solved.
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoBusinesses build cars; governments build roads. It's hard enough to get a government to keep roads pothole-free, how much harder is it going to be to get them to build "smart roads" when they have little or no incentive to do so?