3 ms·
The one thing the author doesn't seem to be taking into account is that the cities are much easier for them to change as needed. The infrastructure is more dens
by FussyZeus 11y ago
The one thing the author doesn't seem to be taking into account is that the cities are much easier for them to change as needed. The infrastructure is more dense and (usually) more orderly designed, and access to electricity to add beacons, as well as access to all kinds of networking resources already in place for traffic work is pre-existing. Augmenting cities for self driving cars is going to be the bunny hill compared to augmenting the interstate highway system to them.
- mikeash 11y agoAutomated interstate driving is nearly a solved problem already. My car will easily go for hours hands-off on most interstates. The only infrastructure you need is clearly marked lines, which already exist on most of them. There's no way that cities are easier to change as needed, when interstates don't need to change in the first place.
- zyxley 11y agoI suspect you haven't been in a big city much if you think thousands of stop-and-start intersections would be easier to automate than a far fewer number of continuous lanes and offramps that work via simple merging.