3 ms·
"Today, we know we can’t put magnets in the pavement everywhere for cars to follow..." Why not? As someone from a Midwestern state, I fear that all the self-d
by goda90 9y ago
"Today, we know we can’t put magnets in the pavement everywhere for cars to follow..."
Why not?
As someone from a Midwestern state, I fear that all the self-driving car development in California is going to miss the important edge cases we experience here. Snow, plows, salt, dirt, heavy rain, etc all destroy the visibility of lane lines.
What we need is something that can be a marker for cars that doesn't require line of sight, or else self driving cars aren't going to be able to navigate at the lightest snowfall.
- mullen 9y agoWe have those edge cases too. California is not all sunshine all the time.
- santaclaus 9y ago> As someone from a Midwestern state, I fear that all the self-driving car development in California is going to miss the important edge cases we experience here. Snow, plows, salt, dirt, heavy rain, etc all destroy the visibility of lane lines. You overestimate the quality of roads in California. :) In San Francisco and Oakland the roads are, quite literally, falling apart. Take a ride on 880 -- straight up four lane high way with virtually no road markings.
- hkarthik 9y agoThis is one of the many reasons Pittsburgh is becoming a hotbed for self driving tech for many companies testing there. It has a lot of bridges, plus all the environmental factors you described above.
- ghaff 9y agoI assume that comment is a realistic assessment about how existing infrastructure can't realistically be dug up/torn down to accommodate autonomous vehicles. Incremental changes can be made over time when other scheduled changes are being made. But, for the most part, AIs generally will need to be able to handle the physical and human world as it exists.