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> I don't get why we aren't looking into slightly changing our roads to better work with self driving cars when all it takes is a little more paint. Because 99
by dmitrygr 7y ago
> I don't get why we aren't looking into slightly changing our roads to better work with self driving cars when all it takes is a little more paint.
Because 99.9999% of drivers are human and have no issues seeing the concrete barriers and not hitting them head on at full speed. Until self driving is better than humans in all cases it will not be acceptable.
Nobody will spend money to adapt roads to self driving cars until they comprise a significant percent of cars (read: decades from now, if ever)
- drewrv 7y ago> Because 99.9999% of drivers are human and have no issues seeing the concrete barriers and not hitting them head on at full speed. In this particular case, a human driver did crash head-on into the barrier somewhat recently.
- cjhopman 7y agoAccording to https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/census/traffic-volumes/2017/route-101 https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/census/traffi..., ~125,000 cars drive through that area per day (scroll to "JCT. RTE. 85", divide by 2). According to the report, the previous collision was 2 months earlier, so ~7.5Million cars passed through there. 99.9999% doesn't seem that far off.