Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?

Re:Will your driverless car kill you so others may live? by danr4 on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:17AM (#10709702)

Can anybody who understand the market give me a reason as to why aren't smart roads built simultaneously to these driverless cars? I mean, why focus on making a car able to 'see' rather than being able to communicate with it's infrastructure?

The reasons I thought of:

1. As mentioned - building/upgrading infrastructure is probably much more expensive and logistically elaborate.

2. Market penetration - current batch of driverless cars can drive on existing infrastructure - no need to wait.

3. If smart cars won't be usable dumb roads it will also be hard to sell

4. Smart, durable, cost-effective infrastructure hasn't been solved.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Will your driverless car kill you so others may live? by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:23PM (#10713179)

Businesses build cars; governments build roads.

It's hard enough to get a government to keep roads pothole-free, how much harder is it going to be to get them to build "smart roads" when they have little or no incentive to do so?

[ Parent | on HN ]