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I don't get why we can't create a "full self driving suitable zone", with standarized road paint, signs, beacons, traffic lights which broadcast their state on
by joking 7y ago
I don't get why we can't create a "full self driving suitable zone", with standarized road paint, signs, beacons, traffic lights which broadcast their state on a suitable standar, and maybe a car to car communication mesh.
Start small with something like the mortantown prt, even in segregated lanes, and grow from there.
I can't see a way to have full self driving capabilities, without helping the vehicles with some context information.
- Nasrudith 7y agoInfastructure is hard enough to get spending on when it is needed long term and immediate unfortunately - let alone for experimental applications. That sort of spending would rely upon rational risk assessment instead of irrational fear so utterly unrealistic politically unfortunately.
- bluGill 7y agoThe problem is paint fades, beacon lights burn out (or the power fails). You can detect and fix those problems, but there is still the time between the issue and when it is fixed that the system needs to work. I've driven in cities after heavy snowfall took out all the power and you couldn't see any lane markings - we slowed down and used extra space (4 lane road, but everybody was driving between lanes making it effectively a 2 lane road), but those who needed to get around could - we even got through intersections despite the stoplight being out. That is the self driving car needs to handle cases where the infrastructure around it is dead before it can react to infrastructure helping it out. This is needed in any case to ensure "terrorist" situations are not too harmful.
- xamuel 7y ago>a "full self driving suitable zone", with standarized road paint, signs, beacons, traffic lights... We've done this already. It's called "railroad tracks" and the self-driving cars on it are called "trains".