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they could meet half way maybe.

• killjoywashere 8y ago
  Just so people understand, in the present day, what you're proposing involves a $5M mission package with $200M worth of airborne combat control systems and related ground support. Oh, and then the "bring dead guy back to life" bit once they get the intercept. The idea that we're going to start vectoring ambulances to intercept self-driving cars carrying heart attack victims is pretty crazy awesome.
  • drcross 8y ago
    Theres no reason with C2C communication coming online that cars will simply move out of the way if you put the car into emergency mode. Obviously we would build anti-abuse features into the system. Pushed out further, I don't mind if some rich guy wants me to pull over to get out of his way for a 50 dollar micropayment.
  • ptaipale 8y ago
    Sending ambulances to cars where a heart attack victim is detected is, however, a feasible use case. Where I live, in the order of 10 % of road casualties are actually casualties of heart attack or stroke; there is no actual road accident at all except that the car perhaps stops - but yes, the government still counts them as "road casualties" because that validates car and fuel taxes.