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by KineticLensman 2424 days ago
> All it takes is political will to scale up the same systems that guide robots today and install them onto every highway and main road

Well, that and a massive amount of infrastructure spend.

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>> All it takes is political will to scale up the same systems that guide robots today and install them onto every highway and main road

> Well, that and a massive amount of infrastructure spend.

And before we put anything close to that kind of money toward autonomous cars, I demand the spending go toward urban micromobility infrastructure first.

Many places in the world already have reflectors installed into all major and many minor roads. Seems like a reliable and very cheap way of detecting lane geometry. https://www.worldhighways.com/_resources/assets/inline/custo...

Snow isn't a problem either, because reflectors can be (and often are) mounted onto plastic poles. https://c7.alamy.com/comp/EC79CD/reflector-signal-white-post...