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Now with discussion being a lot about the safety of this lane and barrier, here's a thought that could improve road safety for everyone: With more and more aut
by TomK32 9y ago
Now with discussion being a lot about the safety of this lane and barrier, here's a thought that could improve road safety for everyone:
With more and more auto-piloting cars on the road calculating the road and make decisions on what's the safest way to continue, wouldn't be it rather easy for this data to flow back? Spots that are often causing trouble for the brains of the autopilot could then be identified easily and be the road, markings, signage, etc improved much quicker. Today's method are most likely a mix of experience and looking at the fatality and accident statistics for last year.
- slivym 9y agoIt may be a bit of a political problem. "Hey, why are the potholes on my road not getting fixed, but Tesla gets the government to paint new chevrons on some fancy highway"
- TomK32 9y agoWith almost everyone in a SUV potholes become a feature...
- skgoa 9y agoThis is being looked into right now by Here, VW etc. Their plan is to for all cars that use the Here map backend (All Merc, BMW, VAG cars plus probably others who join down the line) to send updates automatically. MobilEye (now owned by Intel) is working on a similar system.