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jeremiah256 t1_j8eatwc wrote

I believe manufacturers are just one part of this equation.

If they attempt to do this with each vehicle acting independently, required to react with only the data it can gather and process, then yes. We’ll be doing this dance for at least a decade more, regardless of how intelligent each individual vehicle gets.

But, if smart highways are added to the problem, where information from each vehicle is gathered and relayed to the other vehicles around it, then the problems get simple to solve.

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Beemer17-21 t1_j8ebnyx wrote

Yes! This doesn't get discussed nearly enough. It's a logistical nightmare but if cars could talk to each other and the road itself we could drastically improve the ability of self driving cars -today-.

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SELECTaerial t1_j8fnqmz wrote

I’m not saying I’m for or against this, but Smart Highways pose a huge privacy risk

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jeremiah256 t1_j8fomtx wrote

Oh yeah, there will be serious political battles with self-driving cars & our giving up privacy.

No way law enforcement allows what will essentially be land drones without having access to everything about those vehicles.

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RolfEjerskov OP t1_j8h8aat wrote

It seems highways are the easiest of self-driving because of its predictability.

The main issue that needs to be overcome it seems, is that AI has to be able to interpret the world as well as a human does...

With that said, if cars can interact the can move as one and it would be a leap forward.

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BigMax t1_j8mek8m wrote

True but we are a very long way from smart highways being anything other than an incredibly tiny percentage of the roads.

Just installing those flyover type tolls on a single highway in my state took YEARS of planning and construction.

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