"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" wrote:

On 11/28/12 9:23 PM, Derek Lyons wrote:

Once you have a network of autodrive cars, things change.


Yes. But that handwaves away the *real* problem. Sure, if you can wave
a magic wand and make all the cars on the highway -- possibly just the
majority of them -- autodrive cars, you can simplify the problem
considerably.

The hardest challenge is when there are very few unmanned vehicles on
the road and they have to deal with the human-driven, non-networked
vehicles and no information from ahead that might, in a large group of
networked vehicles, be forwarded to them pre-analyzed. And THAT is the
situation that they're going to first be deployed in -- and where their
success or failure will be determined.

Which challenge can (possibly) be meet by the methods outlined in the
portion you snipped.

D.
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