It would be even safer. A hazard spotted by one car could be tagged for all the cars behind it.Liveinadive wrote:That's one car in a test though, fill the roads with millions of them and how many crashes, bugs and failures will we have?
IanHamlett wrote:Thats because hazard detection has been shit until now. Robot cars have no blindspot, they can detect hazards 100m away and in darkness, they don't get drunk or tired, don't get distracted by kids in the back or a woman in a miniskirt, and their reaction times are already better than any human could ever be. This is happening.
IanHamlett wrote:You won't need traffic lights when it's all going full tilt. But before then the traffic lights will be networked with the cars.
GooberTheHat wrote:You can't have people sat at home being unproductive when they can do that in an office.
I_R wrote:I can see the attraction - old people, regular commuters, efficiency obsessed delivery companies, taxi firms. It does seem like a legal nightmare though - people walking in front of one, even if it's the pedestrian at fault it'll cause a lot of concern. Can you program a car to negotiate a narrow street with two way traffic and arsehole drivers who don't understand right of way?
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