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> a private company's equipment blocked the public roads That would be like every traffic incident ever? I don't think US has public cars or state-owned utilit
by TeMPOraL 11mo ago
> a private company's equipment blocked the public roads
That would be like every traffic incident ever? I don't think US has public cars or state-owned utilities.
- adammarples 11mo agoTypically people move aside for emergency vehicles
- jdietrich 11mo agoAsk any EMT or paramedic - an astonishingly large proportion of human drivers panic in the presence of an ambulance and just slam their brakes on.
- SequoiaHope 11mo agoMy concern is that one company can have a malfunction which shuts down traffic in a city. That seems new or historically rare. I understand large scale deployment will find new system design flaws so I’m not outraged, but I do think we should consider what this means for us, if anything.
- mcny 11mo agoI think the blog is strongly hinting us to focus on the real problem -- the electrical utility and I have to agree. The only other option I can think of is to build some kind of high density low power solar powered IoT network that is independent of current infrastructure but then where is the spectrum for that?
- trollbridge 11mo agoA power outage should not cause robot cars to block intersections.
- TeMPOraL 11mo agoLack of Internet access should not prevent cars - or any other devices - from starting, yet here we are.
- blendo 11mo ago5G C-V2X New Radio might be helpful. https://www.telecomtrainer.com/lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differences-for-the-future-of-vehicle-to-everything-communication/ https://www.telecomtrainer.com/lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differe...
- gruez 11mo ago>My concern is that one company can have a malfunction which shuts down traffic in a city. That's hardly new. What do you think happens to traffic when a semi flips over on a busy interstate, or electricity goes out, turning all traffic lights into 4 way stops and severely limiting throughput?
- mrguyorama 11mo agoIt blocks a single road and yet that makes the news and people have to route around it and it disrupts a day. What happens when one company's engineering failure does that to most roads? For reference, the US considers tactically blocking traffic to be something that smart terrorists or nation state adversaries would want to do to significantly harm the US economically. What do these cars do if Google's entire self driving infrastructure falls over because some component gets misconfigured? It will happen eventually.