And that of course is the key, all to one design and no other designs around.
we can or example, after some time for the results to come in, reserve the fast lane or slow lane for mixed use, self driving cars and ordinary cars.
And in snow? I have certainly driven on motorways which were entirely white. Even rain can make them invisible to human eyes.
Of course, it is often repeated that we do not have fast and slow lanes.
I'll also add to that thought, many who have had both Pfizer vaccinations report that the second one produced significantly worse side effects.
I think it's likely that the AZ will be modified to deal with reported issues.
I have high hopes for self driving cars.
That'll never happen, sorting or policing it would be impossible. At best we might get to e-car lanes in about ten years time, but even that is problematic with current speed limits.
This is not a conversation to which I have contributed, but I suspect that the wrong question is being asked. Rather it should be what modifications need to be made to roads to enable the safe movement of autonomous vehicles. For my part, I never bought into driving as a pleasure. Yes being out and about and being in different places is highly pleasurable, but the going to and fro and being cramped into a fixed position for multiple hours is not. Having a travel pass has reopened the railways and tram systems to me, so the logic of spending 15 quid on fuel and 15 quid on parking and toll fees , for the dubious pleasure of getting cramped in a small box has lost appeal on a trip to Dublin. I think the French have got the idea right of using trains for 250km or less journeys instead of aircraft, and overnight sleepers for those who insist on 500km journeys with cars to the south of France.
The problem with railways is that all too often, actually getting to the station requires transport. Even assuming trains actually go where you want.
We have mentioned this aspect, but it's far too costly and actually impossible in many circumstances due to all the inherent needs for flexibility. The reality is that semi-autonomy will be as far as we get, and that's not much further forward than we already are.
I don't want to get into a long discussion on this, but I don't think you are fully aware of the low cost of data transmission ,and the size of memory chips. To put just one fact out there... My GPS system of 15 years ago had a 2 GB memory, and had nearly all the navigable roads in Western Europe. Now 500 GB chips are readily available , and they can be updated every night!. That is enough capacity to map every laneway . In addition GPS accuracy and sensitivity has improved , and with differential GPS, , good to millimetres. Virtually all of the computer processing power on a smartphone is used to drive the User interface, and it still has plenty to do all the other tasks.,so computers whose task is solely navigation will have plenty of opportunity to plot safe passage, especially if it machine to machine communicates with the streets.
Cross purposes, I was speaking of implanted guidance in roads.
My estimate of GPS is not faulty. Note its the differential type not absolute. So using fixed datum points that resolution is achievable... Easily Good enough for civil engineering infrastructure. Implanted guidance would be key.. but it also is low cost. Embedding lossy line guidance cables at road tarring times . But whether it will happen is moot, but it is extremely feasible. Remember Sweden was able to convert its entire road network to LHD over a weekend. But facilitating public transport..not the Oyster experience but more the Malaga to Gibraltar Model, is the better way to go.
That's the key, it won't, not in the great majority of our roads. The state of our roads infrastructure is appalling and ever worsening as the long suffering suspension of my car reminds me by the minute.
Just as back in the 1870s London physically renumbered every property in the entire city in a single weekend into the modern system that almost all the world uses since, except the Americas. But that was then, we seem to have lost that sort of "make it happen" ability since the mid 20th century.
Agreed.
Following the above saga of trying to get a working medical practice app, despite their repeatedly approving my using it, I've after three weeks of trying received a message on the not-so-smartphone saying that they've been unable to verify I'm one of their patients so the application has been rejected.
They didn't convert over a weekend. All the road markings had been dual white and yellow for driving on different sides of the road, etc etc etc for all the rest of the infrastructure. It took about 4 years (May 63 to September 67).
And they recorded a stubborn 10% increase in road accident afterwards.
