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> The way to solve self-driving cars in a few years is to start building roads and infrastructure for such automation. Maybe even have a human driving multiple
by ageitgey 7y ago
> The way to solve self-driving cars in a few years is to start building roads and infrastructure for such automation. Maybe even have a human driving multiple cars, computer assisted, simultaneously from a remote office.
My proposed law of online self driving car discussions: Every self-driving car discussion ends in someone inventing "trains" :-)
Self-driving trains are already widely used. London's DLR has been in operation since the 1980's.
- leoc 7y agoWhile there are similarities I don't think they go that far. In particular, driverless train operation is only made possible by the fact that network operators and governments are fanatical about fighting obstructions and unauthorised crossings on railway track—to say nothing of unauthorised users!—regardless of whether the trains are automated or not. (In fact railways seem (I am not an expert) to be very vulnerable to disruption if these efforts fail, viz. the notoriety of train delays in the UK due to leaves on the line.) That level of expense and centralised control is certainly not coming to local, urban or back roads, though something like it might be possible on motorway.