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I'm sure Elon Musk is going to take this problem extremely seriously, given that it's going to be twice as prevalent on Mars.

• josefx 5y ago
  It will be all boring company tunnels on mars, no surface roads. So no moons. A lot of autonomous car problems would go away if companies and governments went for enhanced roads instead of trying to create a generic solution on the first try. No need to detect traffic signs or lights if that information was made readily available by the road you are driving on.
  • swiley 5y ago
    I'd go farther and say that it's not possible to drive correctly in some cases on current roads. Everyone who's driven east/west with the arc of the sun parallel to the road knows this.
  • jazzyjackson 5y ago
    Sounds an awful lot like Positive Train Control, which has a hard enough time keeping communication up with just one vehicle per track section. You're not going to get very many nines of uptime when dealing with electronics exposed to the environment.
    • josefx 5y ago
      I think you wouldn't have to go that far, even things like identifying traffic lights would be a lot easier if you had an up to date list of their locations. Worst case I can think of are car accidents where the people involved have to place warning signs on the road and construction/cleanup crews that are slowly moving along the road, but that would still be a limited amount of exceptions to handle instead of trying (and failing) to handle everything.