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When people first started talking about self driving this is what I thought it was going to be. If you want to enter the "self driving zone" your car needs to b

When people first started talking about self driving this is what I thought it was going to be. If you want to enter the "self driving zone" your car needs to be equipped with a government approved self driving module, and everything on the roads in that zone is standardised and maintained. It just seems like a problem that's multiple orders of magnitude easier to solve from a technical standpoint.

Shank 6y ago
It’s definitely easier to solve, but who’s going to foot the bill for this stuff? The whole problem is that road conditions conditions are variable. A lot of the time a Tesla FSD system makes a bad decision, that decision would be possible for a human to make. Sure, it’s not probable all the time, but it’s not outside of the realm of possibility. You can always decrease the odds of something bad happening with better road design (and better viability), better lane markings, better signs, etc. This would work for both FSD systems and humans. Yet, terribly unmaintained roads are the norm for a lot of people who are just “used to it.” If you create an FSD zone and outfit it with tons of sensors, why not just fix the road design problems that would benefit humans too?
- BigJono 6y ago
  The same people who foot the bill for road maintenance now? Obviously it's not the same in every city in the world, but roads are pretty decently maintained where I live. And it's not like we're talking about high tech stuff, like other people said, it's just painting distinctive patterns on things to give sensors more information than they otherwise would have. We already paint distinctive markings for humans, it's not much of a big step further. Probably just some QR-code-looking stuff sprinkled on signs, lane markings and the front/back of other cars etc. Honestly to me the hard bit seems to be getting everyone together and deciding on the standards, especially with how technophobic some cities/countries governments are. Painting a few markings once every few years to keep them fresh is a piece of cake.

Shank 6y ago

It’s definitely easier to solve, but who’s going to foot the bill for this stuff? The whole problem is that road conditions conditions are variable. A lot of the time a Tesla FSD system makes a bad decision, that decision would be possible for a human to make. Sure, it’s not probable all the time, but it’s not outside of the realm of possibility. You can always decrease the odds of something bad happening with better road design (and better viability), better lane markings, better signs, etc. This would work for both FSD systems and humans. Yet, terribly unmaintained roads are the norm for a lot of people who are just “used to it.” If you create an FSD zone and outfit it with tons of sensors, why not just fix the road design problems that would benefit humans too?

BigJono 6y ago
The same people who foot the bill for road maintenance now? Obviously it's not the same in every city in the world, but roads are pretty decently maintained where I live. And it's not like we're talking about high tech stuff, like other people said, it's just painting distinctive patterns on things to give sensors more information than they otherwise would have. We already paint distinctive markings for humans, it's not much of a big step further. Probably just some QR-code-looking stuff sprinkled on signs, lane markings and the front/back of other cars etc. Honestly to me the hard bit seems to be getting everyone together and deciding on the standards, especially with how technophobic some cities/countries governments are. Painting a few markings once every few years to keep them fresh is a piece of cake.