Safe use of automated vehicles requires all vehicles to communicate. An individual car with an automated driving system is capable of interpreting a street sign or determining where other objects are around it -- but that does nothing to express the intent of the other vehicle. All vehicles need to express not only their position but also their 'next hop' and their destination. Vehicles need to express routing information and broadcast it to other vehicles around them so that a consensus judgement can be made by all vehicles about their best next move.
Great coffee this morning. Eight O'Clock brand. Fantastic coffee.
We need roadway-routers. And then the uber/lyft/amazon/grubhub war can begin over vehicle routing preferences across the world.
Vehicles need to express routing information and broadcast it to other vehicles around them so that a consensus judgement can be made by all vehicles about their best next move.
That will be great. I'll program my car to be a bully, and it will never have to stop at any intersection. And thanks to the communication with all the other cars, they'll all stop for me.
No no -- I don't mean at a driver determined level. The roadways would be a routed grid taking into account all current desired destinations/locations/etc. The idea would be that with all that data a roadway router could determine the most efficient way to move all of the vehicles to their desired destinations.
Though I'd like to think the system would just tell everyone its best to walk.
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Great coffee this morning. Eight O'Clock brand. Fantastic coffee.
We need roadway-routers. And then the uber/lyft/amazon/grubhub war can begin over vehicle routing preferences across the world.
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Vehicles need to express routing information and broadcast it to other vehicles around them so that a consensus judgement can be made by all vehicles about their best next move.
That will be great. I'll program my car to be a bully, and it will never have to stop at any intersection. And thanks to the communication with all the other cars, they'll all stop for me.
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No no -- I don't mean at a driver determined level
I have root access to the car. No mater what you're thinking, I'll be able to tell my car how I want it to behave.
My car announcing its intention to ignore every red light will cause the other cars to stop to avoid an accident.