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Requiring dedicated infrastructure eliminates the point of self driving cars - you might as well just build public transit infrastructure. On top of that, this
by jowday 4y ago
Requiring dedicated infrastructure eliminates the point of self driving cars - you might as well just build public transit infrastructure.
On top of that, this won’t eliminate any of the real edge cases - humans and other cars will still violate these rules and drive or walk across these roads, at which point the AV will still need to know how to handle this novelty.
These are the main reasons AV companies don’t consider approaches like this.
- r00fus 4y agoNothing of what I said indicates dedicated infrastructure. In fact, I don't think that would work (as you say why not I'm thinking more like expanding priority bus-lanes (if you have visited regions outside the US these are common) and ensuring there are markers that are abundantly clear for everyone and more usable for self-driving vehicles.
- jowday 4y agoI mean I’d count adding lane markers as building infrastructure - and the same caveat of people disobeying them applies. Not to mention you wouldn’t be able to add dedicated lanes outside of main thoroughfares and highways.