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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by patrickg_zill on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:15PM (#17554653)
Actually a lot of this spending could be avoided if you could convince the government to let you embed a single wire in the asphalt along with some RFID tags.

Everything that is expensive and unreliable is because they assume an embedded wire is not going to be allowed/done by the people managing the roads.

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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by tomp on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:22PM (#17554685)
Why would the wire help you? If you needed precise location information, couldn't the company just add some markers throughout the city? Either stamp large QR codes on corners and traffic lights, or put thousands of Wi-Fi routers around the town, that would help the vehicle triangulate... The latter doesn't even require permission, just money!
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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by bumholio on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:21PM (#17554680)
That would help surely. But I would say the main problem in this space is not the infrastructure - Tesla meltdown aside - it's the other drivers.
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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by megaremote on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:51PM (#17554806)
What would that cost on every road?
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