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Driving on highways is relatively trivial with current tech (with a bit of exaggeration for effect) compared to surface streets which don't lend themselves to t
by ancientworldnow 7y ago
Driving on highways is relatively trivial with current tech (with a bit of exaggeration for effect) compared to surface streets which don't lend themselves to these neat type of solutions. This is the last mile problem once again and as always that's where the majority of difficulty and cost lay.
- btown 7y agoThis could work well for commercial transit - have standby drivers for last mile, and have them board at the off-ramp and disembark at the on-ramp. For personal transport this could be more difficult though.
- wwweston 7y agoDoes the last mile problem really need to be solved to make autonomous vehicles fantastically useful? A vehicle with an autopilot that's as reliably safe a highway driver as I am would be awesome. It'd give me back hours of attention (or sleep) during commutes or interstate travel. Even if it would seek a parked or human-piloted state on encountering problematic weather. All-weather door-to-door capability may be what's needed to replace a large chunk of individually owned vehicles with a shared on-demand fleets, but highway-only would make individually owned vehicles much more convenient.
- tylerrobinson 7y agoI agree, and I don't understand why this concept isn't given more consideration. If, as other commenters have said, autonomous freeway travel is so "trivial" why can't we reap the benefits now while the industry grinds away at edge cases for another 20 years?