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I think as we come to cross a certain threshold of how widespread these autonomous vehicles are it just makes sense to shape infrastructure around the technolog

by pen2l 5y ago

I think as we come to cross a certain threshold of how widespread these autonomous vehicles are it just makes sense to shape infrastructure around the technology. For starters make it code for construction sites to place beacons that relay information to these vehicles so that there's no equivocation about what the right path for it to take is and what it needs to do. Because making AVs work to the last step, to account for every possibility, we're not there and we're not getting there for a long long long time, so have then the bunch of AV-manufacturers come together and standardize on a secure (lol) communication protocol and give it the crutch that it apparently desperately needs.

ajross 5y ago
> For starters make it code for construction sites to place beacons that relay information to these vehicles FWIW: it really doesn't seem like it has to be that complicated. The car could see the cones just find and knew not to cross them. They just needed 4-5x more cones than they used to make it clear to the car[1] where the lane was actually going. [1] And human drivers! Again, this conework was just plain awful, period. I'm 100% convinced that the poor Waymo device wasn't the only driver making bad decisions in that intersection that day.