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Which raises the question why isn't there a standard protocol so that two near-autonomous car could broadcast and/or negotiate their next move ?
by seren 11y ago
Which raises the question why isn't there a standard protocol so that two near-autonomous car could broadcast and/or negotiate their next move ?
- Someone1234 11y agoBecause autonomous cars drive in a world that is 99.99% human drivers, so for automation to be considered viable they have to cope with that not the 00.01% of autonomous-autonomous scenarios. There is also legitimate security concerns, bad data from bad actors, interference, weather issues, and so on. It is just better to depend on reliable data from sensors and design systems around them, than assuming perfect data from other cars (which might be flawed).
- seren 11y agoThat makes a lot of sense. However at some point, I expect some kind of approval body that would vet an autonomous car comm, similar to GSM for example. This is also a situation where you don't want bad actors emitting in the wrong frequency band, at the wrong time, with the wrong power, etc..
- codezero 11y agoAh yes, very good point, I imagine a trolling-car-communication hack would come very soon after a car-to-car link is created. :)
- codezero 11y agoI expect this will be inevitable, but since the density of self-driving cars is so low, developing such a protocol is premature. Also, the over all design should exist in such a way that it doesn't rely on such car to car communication. For example, if a person is standing in the road, or a deer jumps into the lane, the car should be able to react accordingly. Having a car-to-car protocol would be helpful for the average case, but since there are so many tricky edge cases, I suspect full autonomy being developed to its maximum potential may make it unnecessary.