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> A simpler solution would be to install electronic wiring on the roads themselves to guide the cars and I daresay we would have self-driving cars within a mont
by speedplane 8y ago
> A simpler solution would be to install electronic wiring on the roads themselves to guide the cars and I daresay we would have self-driving cars within a month of installation.
Many billions of dollars have gone into developing self-driving car tech. But carving up our entire road network to install signaling equipment? That would cost trillions.
- dragontamer 8y agoWhoever said that we need to do the entire road network? A few geofenced areas, like a dozen-blocks in Manhattan, would probably be profitable. Start with the densest cities, 90% of the profits with only 10% of the effort. Write an Uber-like app so that people would know whether or not their starting-location + destination are within the fence, and you're basically done.
- agildehaus 8y agoWhy? Self-driving cars can already do those dozen blocks in Manhattan. And a lot more than that. The wait currently is to ensure every reasonable edge case is handled, and to understand the degree of safety. And how does a wire in the road help avoiding pedestrians, bad human drivers, construction, etc? You still have to build intelligence into the car.