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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by dragonwriter on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:48PM (#17983395)
> From a technological point of view this is a no-brainer.

Yeah, it becomes a brainer, though, when you ask “how do you deal with malicious transmitters”, since the answer to that tends to involve developing the systems to monitor the same variables externally without trusting the transmitted values, and once you do that, what is he transmitted data for?

Using transmitted data for less safety-critical things like route intent for efficient holisitc route optimization, with a penalty system for misrepresentation might be useful, though.

Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by 7952 on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:28AM (#17985350)
I think that safety critical systems need to deal with bad data anyway. Adding an extra level of redundancy makes sense.

Maybe you could have a lower power transponder style technology in addition. This would just broadcast an ID after a fixed amount of time in response to a request. This could be compared against radar,visual, and broadcast information to actively verify data. And critically it could be independent of the rest of the cars systems. Obviously that is not a solution, but it does add another layer of redundancy