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Storrow Drive in Boston has several bridges over it like this. The worst part about it is that a car could be stopped under the bridge and it's hard to tell unt
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
Storrow Drive in Boston has several bridges over it like this. The worst part about it is that a car could be stopped under the bridge and it's hard to tell until you are on top of it (the car not the bridge). Granted the speed limit on the road is low enough that if you are obeying it you should be able to stop in time.
So a self driving vehicle would have to somehow know that the road dips and from that know that they won't run into the bridge and know that there may be cars hidden after the dip.
Edit: tried to get a good photo from Google maps but since the Google Street View Car camera is high up off the ground you can actually see more clearly what is going on with the bridge then you would be able to at street level so it's not a good example. I wonder what implications camera height has on the safety of self driving systems. Also, the bridges I have in mind seem to be on Soldier Field Road not Storrow (Storrow turns into Soldier Field and I haven't lived in Boston for years so forgive the mistake :))