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Given all car makers are investing in driverless cars- why don't they install sensors or guide-wires into roads to mark lanes, etc. the next time they are repav
by vadym909 11y ago
Given all car makers are investing in driverless cars- why don't they install sensors or guide-wires into roads to mark lanes, etc. the next time they are repaving/repairing roads? won't that be much safer than having to rely on cameras/radars .
- cbhl 11y agoThis has been proposed before, and the short answer is that it is too expensive to install these things into all of the roads. Roads are typically resurfaced only once every 15-25 years, and in many municipalities, shrinking budgets mean that some roads are just outright being closed rather than being maintained.
- frik 11y agoMore like 1-10 years. And the snow plover destroy the surface of the roads, so you can't mount some device on the road surface or just beneath the surface. Even the sticks net to the road get destroyed from time to time by trucks or snow plovers.
- scuba7183 11y agoSure, just got to get all car makers and governments to agree on a standard and have to approve the increase in cost