[oneplane]

> Yes, let's just focus on small stuff we already do

No, you don't

> automated cars with less human error.

The comment you replied to already noted that this has no effect on existing cars, of which many magnitudes more exist than automated cars (those do not exist on the road, not to the degree that is proposed).

> Sometimes I can't even on this website with supposedly some of the smartest folks.

Oh, the irony.

[Wissenschafter]

>Oh, the irony.

Yes, quite funny. The claim is absurd. Cars communicating with each other is feasible even for older vehicles.

[idiotsecant]

Very interested in how you would suppose this works.

[Diti]

Wild guess, but probably with a transponder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder

[Wissenschafter]

Every driver has a cellphone in their pocket, I'm sure it's more than possible to integrate people with modern vehicles in a mesh net to older vehicles by using an app or something. It's not hard to think about, c'mon now. What website am I on ffs?

[nuancebydefault]

The problem is reliability. The cellphone is not constantly connected to a network, depending on its location, battery, age of electronics, software updates,... You would need a system that works with a mesh with holes. Not much better than today's situation i would guess.