Originally posted by PDL Lensbeginner Since you are so skilled that all by your self you can program a automated car to shut down during bad weather (leaving the inhabitants to sit and freeze). Just how do you propose to put wires in the 4.12 million miles of public roads in the US. Who will set the standards auto companies, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Verizon? (All these cars will have to be tracked in order to know if they are in bad weather and if the big bad government has closed the roads) What are and who sets the standards. What happens if the "wire" is broken? How long will it take (remember that the interstate highway took decades to implement) to embed these wires and who will pay for it?
Granted, I am being picky and pedantic. However general weak statements offering hand waving solutions require something more than silence.
I can't understand why you are picking on me... I'm never confrontational, and I merely expressed a personal point of view.
Regarding autonomous drive, I think there are far bigger issues, and far less infrequent than whiteout.
Regarding the wire question, I think that a paradigm change
that big, if it ever comes to be, would justify an investment in infrastructures.
If there's the will and the advantage, it will be done, otherwise it won't, or other ways will be found to achieve the same result.
Regarding the implementation, I was thinking more of a "dumb" wire, that doesn't trasmit anything, something like a Hall effect sensor on the car, but there are other solutions that don't require the wire to be intact from start to end (e.g. RFID). Besides, some redundancy could be built-in.
"General weak statements" are often called "conversation", and I don't think one should be required to have a major in robotics or whatever to be allowed to express his point of view in the
General Talk section of a
Photography forum...
My 0.02c