Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance
I'm surprised that self-driving technology is focusing on replacing the driver as an autonomous actor, processing visual and radar/lidar signals in order to know about its surroundings. I've always thought we'd get further faster by having automobiles also talk to other vehicles nearby, and design roads to support the computer driven vehicles.<p>Two examples are:<p>1) If the vehicle is talking to the cars in front of it, it can know they are braking before it senses that visually. Also, the vehicles can speed up in a gridlock scenario more in unison, like a train.<p>2) On the interstate, markers in the pavement can be specifically designed for computer sensors rather than human eyeballs. Also, cars can draft together to save fuel.