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"Paint is a wear item, the example of beacons would not be a wear item" I am extremely skeptical that beacons, sitting out in the heat, and the sun, and the co
by Fomite 7y ago
"Paint is a wear item, the example of beacons would not be a wear item"
I am extremely skeptical that beacons, sitting out in the heat, and the sun, and the cold, and the rain, and exposed to whatever we use to maintain roads at that juncture, will not be "a wear item".
- SECProto 7y agoSure, but in the sense that road signs or traffic lights are a wear item. They wouldn't be exposed to the real causes of damage to roads (at least in my area) - transport trucks and road plows. They would need to be replaced at 5-30 year intervals, rather than 4-12 month intervals.
- dodobirdlord 7y agoTraffic lights seem to have a pretty long lifespan.
- thrower123 7y agoThey'll get hit and sheared off by plows and over-size loads, or just by drunks or idiots still driving dumb cars. I do not think people have a solid grasp of how many millions of miles of road would need to be technified for self-driving cars to be widely viable. Most likely, it's going to be a niche thing, tightly restricted to certain places that can afford to build and maintain the infrastructure.
- mopsi 7y agoDon't know about the US, but most roads in Europe already have coded reflectors to aid identification of lane geometry. Roadside reflectors have become a standard feature even on small rural roads, they're just hollow plastic half-tubes with reflecting strips on them. Cheap to install, cheap to maintain. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=road+reflectors&t=ffab&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=road+reflectors&t=ffab&ia=images&i...
- rixed 7y agoI, for one, already fail to grasp where we manage to get the funds required to clear and level the land and butter a fresh layer of asphalt on top of it regularly enough to build and maintain that many roads to begin with.