I hate the self driving car approach. They are fitting cars into crappy legacy roads. They could change the infrastructure, roads and transportation so we won’t have to avoid problems and eliminate the situations from occurring but we’d rather fit crappy models in crappy old infrastructure instead of making roads that are more conducive to technology. It’s like making an android for handling a horse carriage.
Yeah, nope. 'smart' roads mean wasting billions on sensors that would become outdated soon after being installed and banning non-'smart' users is political suicide impossible even in China. Also, do animals, pedestrians and cyclists need to wear a transponder to avoid getting squashed like a bug?
I live in a city that uses pressure sensors to detect if a car passed red lights. It’s still not outdated over 10 years later.
You don’t need smart roads you just need to make roads visible for self driving cars. They shouldn’t need to be fit into acting like humans. Your dystopian vision is a very narrow and biased assumption, it doesn’t need electronics, it’s simple as using covered bridges, machine readable signs and powered rails like streetcars. China did exactly what I mentioned by using high speed rails rather than focusing on fitting self driving cars and bypasses the pedestrian and transponders you focused on avoiding.
