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The solution is pretty simple. We need to design electric highways that have a self driving lane. In the self driving lane there is guidance in the road that as
by acd 7y ago
The solution is pretty simple. We need to design electric highways that have a self driving lane. In the self driving lane there is guidance in the road that assist self driving cars. Since the cars are self driving they can coast in 80km/h sharing the lane with trucks. Add electric supply and rails to lessen the tire friction and we are a long way to reduce carbon emissions from transportation.
For city centers cars should for now assist the driver but not self drive as the system are not yet safe enough todo so. From machine learning we know that image analysis has probabilities associated with them. Probably might not be safe enough in cities.
- vkou 7y ago> The solution is pretty simple. We need to design electric highways that have a self driving lane. So, build train lines.
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- rtkwe 7y agoAny product that requires refitting existing roads is pretty much dead in the water, there's a chicken and egg problem inherent in that solution because before there's a push for billions of dollars and decades to be spent refitting the highway system there has to be a big demand for that project/product and that will only happen with a proven viable self driving car. And even once it starts the vehicle will only be useful once enough roads have be refitted. So a company has to 1) convince the US government to dedicate years and a few billion dollars to build them the infrastructure to run their product then 2) protect that funding across a couple decades (including multiple party switches) and 3) not go broke in the process waiting for the infra to be in place for people to actually buy their product.