[asimuvPR]

Kinda feels like an advertisement for the operating system mentioned multiple times in the post. But, how do you solve the problem of many uncoordinated driverless cars?

You don't. What you do is avoid the problem by defining protocols and regulations. Then by updating the infrastructure to allow the vehicles to operate in sync but also out of the way. Self driving cars, at least the first generation or two, will require their own environment. Due to the multitude of variables to handle. Insurance, public awareness and education, safety, etc.

In the same way that dumb old cars required (and still do!) new regulations, protocols, and infrastructure amongst other things.

In terms of technology, how do you coordinate all of this cars? Well, that's one of the things I'm trying to find out. There are many, many papers out there that have been attacking the problem for decades and the small subset that I have managed to read agree on one thing: The infrastructure needs to be updated for self driving cars to operate. Not only roads, but pretty much all city planning aspects. Now, you think San Francisco is making a fuss about not building new housing. Imagine how it will respond to redoing everything. Now imagine that at a state level.

It's not a problem solved purely by technology, but through consistent trial and error of multiple moving parts.