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I'm for a middle-of-the-road way of doing things at first: make some highway lanes for autonomous cars only. Separate those lane physically. Remove the speed li
by arkh 9y ago
I'm for a middle-of-the-road way of doing things at first: make some highway lanes for autonomous cars only. Separate those lane physically. Remove the speed limit there to encourage people to get cars which can use those lanes.
Implement a way for the highway operator to affect the cars on it: make way for emergency vehicles, adapt to infos the operator can aggregate and transmit, change the speed of cars to the slowest one around etc.
Once the majority of people have self driven cars and those have been proven in this controled environment you can think about allowing them on open roads. Or not. Or adapt those open roads to what self driven cars need.
- EADGBE 9y ago> make some highway lanes for autonomous cars only. Separate those lane physically sure, makes sense to me. But God, that would cost a fortune.
- dkonofalski 9y agoWhat do you mean? Everyone making these comments is fairly certain that this is a completely trivial endeavor.
- arkh 9y ago> But God, that would cost a fortune. It would. Like an infrastructural job. I mean, it would be like railways for individual trains. But that's kinda-sorta the job expected from government and what taxes are for: paying for things the individual would have problems doing.
- smogcutter 9y agoGM's "super cruise" fills the exact role you're describing aside from removing the speed limit, and aside from the billions of dollars in public infrastructure spending and increased traffic for everyone else.