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by soc 6218 days ago
What is really needed is to have all vehicles, roads, lights, and stop signs linked together.

For example, a car should refuse to let the driver proceed thru a light/stop sign unless it's clear. Imagine all the money that would be saved from property/medical damages.
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khandekars 6218 days ago
Many times I wish the below mentioned, but perhaps it will take quite a few decades to achieve it.

If we could have a global infrastructure, wherein we tell the car the place we wish to visit, which causes the car to automatically figure out: the optimal route based on constantly changing traffic and weather conditions, refilling, obeying all rules such as one-way / speed limitations and so on, it will be truly amazing achievement.

The technology is there, fragmented in thousands of pieces; it needs to be weaved as a cohesive whole in a reliable and safe manner.

In a nutshell, save the time for driving the vehicles for an entire civilization, :)

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cars4fun 6218 days ago
This is definitely in the works. The biggest problem is convincing the countless local authorities to upgrade their existing traffic systems to support a technology that's not in the market yet.
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stonemetal 6218 days ago
You would have to be smarter about it than wait for local gov. Vision systems that can read street signs. etc. OCR on street signs should be pretty easy since they use High contrast simple fonts.
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cars4fun 6218 days ago
OCR doesn't solve the problem of blind corners. In fact, even the current preemptive braking systems depend on radar, which perform poorly around corners.
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stonemetal 6216 days ago
Who said anything about blind corners? I would think it cool if like my GPS system my car knew the speed limit(and reading street signs in combination with storage would allow it to be correct, up to date and cover more roads than my rinky dink GPS system). sure it wouldn't know the speed limit the moment I turned a corner if it just relied on ocr but it might catch a speed limit sign I missed.

Right now all the telematics stuff is broken in to pieces you could do a lot of neat stuff if they were better integrated. You could use that preemptive braking stuff to decide I am in traffic on an interstate an find a new route.(Hint if the speed limit is sixty and I am with in a few feet of the guy in front of me and my current speed is below 5mph I am in traffic and the gps system should reroute me.)

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