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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by jjoonathan on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:07PM (#36228735)
When the road quality, paint, and signage is decent, modern self driving stacks really don't have any problem seeing it and using it. Effort should be focused on improving those so that everyone benefits.

If Tesla (or any self driving player, but the Tesla FSD stack drives a million miles/day across the US right now) published a road quality score, home buyers would quickly start paying attention and then home owners would quickly start paying attention. This would push forward the political will to fix the roads, at least in places where low road quality is driven by budgeting problems rather than outright poverty.

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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by bonestamp2 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:38PM (#36229322)
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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by hanniabu on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:16PM (#36230973)
Better to not design cars that rely on parts of the infrastructure that won't be maintained
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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by bonestamp2 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:48PM (#36251015)
Exactly. We should only maintain the things that the people rely on, and build the cars to rely on those same things... at least for now. Once the cars are good enough that people are no longer in control of cars, then we can look at changing that standard to reduce the cost of infrastructure maintenance.
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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:47PM (#36230445)
Almost nobody wants higher taxes to fix roads. Technical problems are easy compared to political problems. I think we are stuck with what we have.
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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by autoexec on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:23PM (#36231093)
> Almost nobody wants higher taxes to fix roads.

I think most people would argue that the taxes they're paying now should cover it and if that's not enough we could try things like diverting tax money from waste, eliminating earmarks, or maybe even start forcing corporations and billionaires to pay their fair share. People want nice roads and are willing to pay taxes for it, but the burden shouldn't fall entirely on the shrinking middle class.

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Re:How Many Sensors for Autonomous Driving? by jjoonathan on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:53PM (#36230575)
Nobody wants to pay to fix roads... until their property values get dinged for having bad roads. That's my point.
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