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There seems to be a confusion among people that self-driving cars are going to fully self-contained, with no interaction or communication between them. At first
by cr0sh 10y ago
There seems to be a confusion among people that self-driving cars are going to fully self-contained, with no interaction or communication between them. At first they probably will - but the greater gains in safety, efficiency, speed, and utility will only happen when they all can communicate with each other - to inform each other about traffic pattern changes, as well as to coordinate on local issues.
- saosebastiao 10y agoThere's no confusion here. It will be possible, but relying on it to stop traffic waves is an untenable fantasy. Even directly connected fiber optic communication has levels of unreliability that would make it untenable to drive closer than you can stop from visual sensory alone...and you want to rely on wireless communication? At it's best, wireless communication may help traffic miles from an incident, by communicating problems (most likely with some central management system) and routing traffic around it. Visual range sensors will dominate all local interactions, just like they do with swarm coordination systems in both nature and robotics.
- marssaxman 10y agoSure, but now we've gone from a discussion of changes we could reasonably expect to see over a couple of decades to much more ambitious structural systematic changes which would take most of a century to accomplish.