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The cop can carry a transmitting device which will communicate with cars telling them what to do.
Who will pay for that?
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Ignoring control issues, this assumes infinite space at destination: you are still blanketing the road with cars, just in a coordinated manner.
There usually is “enough” space on the road, when you account for all the unused space on the road in the opposite flow direction to rush-hour traffic. Cars just need to quickly take you to work, then slowly drive back the other way. Maybe even borrow a lane of the highway for parking, which shouldn’t worry traffic controllers given that they could send a command to all the cars to get them going again as soon as tra…
But that's not really sexy, is it? it just doesn't sell as well as fully automated AI driving does.
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I wear a helmet cam, and yes, as an individual it's basically impossible to get traction, even when you have a clear plate and face shot. But when the self-driving car company has thousands or millions of these incidents on record, they'll quickly find themselves wielding enormous power. They'll be able to correlate across time and space, similar to how phones running Google Maps are reporting their position and velo…
Why would they do that? That footage might include their own customers.
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People obsess about weather conditions as a limiting factor for level 5 and it's bizarre. Bad weather conditions will favour robots over humans because the robot drivers have sensors that can penetrate fog and rain whereas humans have to rely on mk1 eyeballs that can't. The real limiting factors for level 5 are less legible to humans. We understand the physical world via years of experience and good priors. Teslas cr…
Can you link to some of these sensors? As far as I know, anyone who knows what they’re doing is using Lidar at the moment which has significant difficulties with weather.
The radar can penetrate fog, rain, etc. https://navtechradar.com/features/autonomous-vehicles/
Ultrasound works well up close for detecting a potential collision.
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People obsess about weather conditions as a limiting factor for level 5 and it's bizarre. Bad weather conditions will favour robots over humans because the robot drivers have sensors that can penetrate fog and rain whereas humans have to rely on mk1 eyeballs that can't. The real limiting factors for level 5 are less legible to humans. We understand the physical world via years of experience and good priors. Teslas cr…
Can you link to some of these sensors? As far as I know, anyone who knows what they’re doing is using Lidar at the moment which has significant difficulties with weather.
In theory you could have all four.