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Interesting insight. I wrote my concern while living in Denmark as well. About 10 years ago, I read a paper from an Institute of Transportation in Australia ab
by reacharavindh 9y ago
Interesting insight. I wrote my concern while living in Denmark as well.
About 10 years ago, I read a paper from an Institute of Transportation in Australia about the use of low power microwave transmitters along the lanes of the highway which can "guide" the intelligent cars along the highways and also the idea of a car mesh that can communicate learning( as in I found a pot hole here that wasn't in our map, be careful!)
That sounds a very practical approach of course with the government investment on roads. After all, it is the government's charter to build public infrastructure! The car companies need to work with public policy and not try to make something within their bounds.
- pilsetnieks 9y agoYeah, well, if it's too hard to paint a line on the side of the road, imagine what would happen with maintaining arrays of low power microwave transmitters.
- reacharavindh 9y agoI think they come with different problems and can help add redundancy to data input. I would be scared to sit in a self-driving car that depends only on visibility of lines at the edge of the road. However, if there are enough data points available to the car at all points in time, then it makes the probability of failure low enough. Imagine a system that munches visual clues + RADAR/LIDAR data + Microwave or RF transmitters embedded in the road + GPS/SATNAV + data from other cars via local mesh network. Now, that I'd think about trusting a little bit. Also, I'd definitely be watching 007 movies while my car drives me :-)