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0 pointsmacinjosh6y ago0 comments

There are millions of miles of roads just in the US that will never have that sort of infrastructure because the cost of keeping beacons running and marking in place would be astronomical. Sure maybe California will have some of that around big population areas but that's probably about it.

What happens to all these markings when it snows a couple centimeters?'

Fully self driving cars won't happen in our lifetime, probably not this century.

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_red6y ago

its not only lines on the road though:

Imagine you are following a pickup-truck and out of the back an obviously empty box floats out of the bed and lands directly in front of your car.

For a human its trivial to know the box is empty and its ok to hit it....does "AI" know that?

Multiply that case x1000 and you have the conditions self-driving cars will need to handle on a daily basis.

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timidiceball6y ago

I always felt the film minority report was onto something with regard to this: the vehicles depicted in the movie are (non-optionally) self-driving within dense urban regions and drivable by humans in the country

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