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This confirms my opinion that the only way for self driving cars to work is for every car on the road to be a self-driving car. Stop signs would become like tra
by Thorentis 7y ago
This confirms my opinion that the only way for self driving cars to work is for every car on the road to be a self-driving car. Stop signs would become like train semaphores where rather than being purely visual, there are other electronic indicators that tell the car to stop at a certain point. The roads should then be more like a train network. I really think this will mean more efficient use of space since you can have shorter following distance (this was achieved on the train network too once automated systems took over from human drivers). Trying to blend self-driving and human driven cars is just going to cause a huge mess. Accounting for human mistakes and AI mistakes is just too big a problem for AI to solve right now, and imo, for a very long time.
- benrbray 7y agoAnd at this stage, at least in the context of cities, cars begin to make very little sense compared to tried and true alternatives like trains and subways. Combined with people-first city planning, there really is no need for so many cars in urban areas.